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"After making this for the office Mardi Gras party, I got requests to make this for birthdays, baseball's opening day, everything and anything. The dough, from Southern Living, is very rich and easy to work. The cream cheese filling is wonderful! I usually make the frosting all yellow, coloring the sugars the three colors. You can adjust the amount..."

Ingredients: cream cheese, eggs...

"The Day of Kings (el Dia de Reyes), or Epiphany, is celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the day the magi arrived bearing gifts for the infant Jesus. The Day of the Kings is observed by Latin cultures with the making and eating of a rosca de reyes, a sweet yeast bread similar to Louisiana's King cake, with a hidden tiny plastic baby (or a dried..."

Ingredients: colored sugar sprinkle, eggs...

"The person who gets the bean in their portion of this wonderful sweet bread becomes ruler of the day (or week) at Mardi Gras time in New Orleans. Even though this is a traditional holiday bread, it's wonderful ANY time of year. The mixing and heavy kneading may be done in the bread machine, if desired. From an old Family Circle cookbook."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, fresh lemon rind...

"This recipe was printed in the Feb/March 2010 Taste of the South Magazine. It is adapted from a recipe by Haydel's Bakery in New Orleans."

Ingredients: cinnamon sugar, dry active yeast...