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Mardi Gras Dessert Recipes

Looking for Mardi Gras dessert ideas? Find recipes for king cake, doberge cake, bananas Foster, and other classics.

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King Cake Recipe - Bring a little bit of New Orleans home to your house. This festive sweet bread traditionally has a small trinket baked inside. Whoever finds it will have good luck during the coming year.

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King Cake

Bring a little bit of New Orleans home to your house. This festive sweet bread traditionally has a small trinket baked inside. Whoever finds it will have good luck during the coming year.

By ARVILLALAR

Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce Recipe - A buttery and sweet sauce made with toasted pecans tops this rich bread pudding.

Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce

A buttery and sweet sauce made with toasted pecans tops this rich bread pudding.

By Leah Little

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Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe and Video - Mardi Gras isn't complete without a sweet and colorful king cake, filled with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and maybe even a plastic baby.

Mardi Gras King Cake

Mardi Gras isn't complete without a sweet and colorful king cake, filled with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and maybe even a plastic baby.

By Jo

Videos to Watch

Costas French Market Doughnuts (Beignets)

Mardi Gras King Cake

Chef John's Bananas Foster

Colored Sugar Recipe - Make your own colored sugars and save yourself a lot of money over the holiday season. This recipe is easy and can be kept in the jars for months.

Colored Sugar

Make your own colored sugars and save yourself a lot of money over the holiday season. This recipe is easy and can be kept in the jars for months.

By Sue

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Pralines II Recipe - Try this delicious candy made with sour cream and pecans.

Pralines II

Try this delicious candy made with sour cream and pecans.

By Melissa

Doberge Cake (Dobash) Recipe - Doberge Cake is a traditional Louisiana cake, just right for Mardi Gras. The thin layers of white cake are spread with chocolate pudding, and the whole cake is iced with homemade chocolate frosting.

Doberge Cake (Dobash)

Doberge Cake is a traditional Louisiana cake, just right for Mardi Gras. The thin layers of white cake are spread with chocolate pudding, and the whole cake is iced with homemade chocolate frosting.

By Summer1227

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Sybil's Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake Recipe - Southern lemon cake is as well-loved a tradition as King cake; it's just not as well known. Enjoy 6 thin layers of light lemon cake filled and topped with tangy lemon filling.

Sybil's Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake

Southern lemon cake is as well-loved a tradition as King cake; it's just not as well known. Enjoy 6 thin layers of light lemon cake filled and topped with tangy lemon filling.

By REGINAHARRIS

Costas French Market Doughnuts (Beignets) Recipe and Video - Try this traditional recipe for beignets from a user who swears this tastes just like the ones served at the famous New Orleans hot spot, the Cafe du Monde. Pour a coffee or hot chocolate and enjoy these tender pillow-like doughnuts for any special occasion or weekend breakfast.

Costas French Market Doughnuts (Beignets)

Try this traditional recipe for beignets from a user who swears this tastes just like the ones served at the famous New Orleans hot spot, the Cafe du Monde. Pour a coffee or hot chocolate and enjoy these tender pillow-like doughnuts for any special occasion or weekend breakfast.

By PREGOCOOK

Fastelavnsboller (Fastelavn Buns) Recipe - These traditional Scandinavian filled buns are eaten for Fastelavn, better known to Americans as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

Fastelavnsboller (Fastelavn Buns)

These traditional Scandinavian filled buns are eaten for Fastelavn, better known to Americans as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

By mobygirl

Bananas Foster II Recipe and Video - Bananas are cooked in a bubbling pan of dark brown sugar, butter, rum and cinnamon and served over ice cream with walnuts in this elegant, quick dessert.

Bananas Foster II

Bananas are cooked in a bubbling pan of dark brown sugar, butter, rum and cinnamon and served over ice cream with walnuts in this elegant, quick dessert.

By BUTTERMEBREAD

Microwave Pralines Recipe - Brown sugar, cream, salt, margarine and pecans are microwaved then flavored with vanilla and dropped onto waxed paper to cool into bite sized pralines.

Microwave Pralines

Brown sugar, cream, salt, margarine and pecans are microwaved then flavored with vanilla and dropped onto waxed paper to cool into bite sized pralines.

By MARY GAIL

Pralines Recipe - Pecans in a sugar candy coating. Simple and elegant.

Pralines

Pecans in a sugar candy coating. Simple and elegant.

By MARKR

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Cajun Cake Recipe - A homemade pineapple cake is topped with a caramel-pecan sauce that soaks into the cake.

Cajun Cake

A homemade pineapple cake is topped with a caramel-pecan sauce that soaks into the cake.

By Kitty

Bananas Foster I Recipe - Bananas in a cinnamon-caramel sauce flavored with rum, served warm over ice cream.

Bananas Foster I

Bananas in a cinnamon-caramel sauce flavored with rum, served warm over ice cream.

By Chrissi

New Orleans Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie Recipe - A decadent blend of buttery, bourbon-accented caramelized filling and crunchy pecans, this luscious pie has New Orleans bayou country richness in every bite.

New Orleans Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie

A decadent blend of buttery, bourbon-accented caramelized filling and crunchy pecans, this luscious pie has New Orleans bayou country richness in every bite.

By tracy918

King Cake in a Bread Machine Recipe - Make your Mardi Gras king cake using your bread machine to mix and knead the dough. Fill the dough with a buttery cinnamon-pecan filling, bake, and decorate with a frosting glaze and the time-honored purple, green, and yellow colored sugar. It's traditional to stick a little plastic baby or a bean into the cake before baking. The lucky one whose slice has the prize gets to make the king cake next year.

King Cake in a Bread Machine

Make your Mardi Gras king cake using your bread machine to mix and knead the dough. Fill the dough with a buttery cinnamon-pecan filling, bake, and decorate with a frosting glaze and the time-honored purple, green, and yellow colored sugar. It's traditional to stick a little plastic baby or a bean into the cake before baking. The lucky one whose slice has the prize gets to make the king cake next year.

By SUZZANNA

Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe - Prepared sweet roll dough and colorful frostings speed up the cake-baking process for a Mardi Gras King Cake. A small plastic baby inserted into the side of the cake will bring good luck in the coming year to whoever discovers it in their slice.

Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake

Prepared sweet roll dough and colorful frostings speed up the cake-baking process for a Mardi Gras King Cake. A small plastic baby inserted into the side of the cake will bring good luck in the coming year to whoever discovers it in their slice.

By BUDDHAFULDREAMER

Texas Pralines Recipe - Delicious chewy pecan pralines we make every year for Christmas!

Texas Pralines

Delicious chewy pecan pralines we make every year for Christmas!

By Wendi661

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Pig Picking Cake II Recipe - Mandarin oranges in the cake and pineapple, pecans and coconut in the filling. From living down south and all the get-togethers for Pig Picking, this cake is a sure winner with people from the Southerners as well as the Northerners. This cake brings us all together.

Pig Picking Cake II

Mandarin oranges in the cake and pineapple, pecans and coconut in the filling. From living down south and all the get-togethers for Pig Picking, this cake is a sure winner with people from the Southerners as well as the Northerners. This cake brings us all together.

By Claudia Hamilton

Tin Roof Sundae Pie Recipe and Video - Honey-nut flavored cornflakes are mixed with peanut butter and corn syrup to make the crust for this frozen pie with an attitude. Than vanilla ice cream is piled into the crunchy 'nest' and topped with salted peanuts. Freeze this fabulous pie and serve it with your favorite chocolate syrup.

Tin Roof Sundae Pie

Honey-nut flavored cornflakes are mixed with peanut butter and corn syrup to make the crust for this frozen pie with an attitude. Than vanilla ice cream is piled into the crunchy 'nest' and topped with salted peanuts. Freeze this fabulous pie and serve it with your favorite chocolate syrup.

By Ryan McCollum

Yummy Pecan Pralines Recipe - Pecans are cooked to the soft ball stage with brown sugar, white sugar, evaporated milk and butter and then beaten and poured on a slab to firm up in these sweet, chewy candies.

Yummy Pecan Pralines

Pecans are cooked to the soft ball stage with brown sugar, white sugar, evaporated milk and butter and then beaten and poured on a slab to firm up in these sweet, chewy candies.

By SARATHERESA

Pig Picking Cake III Recipe - This is my daughters favorite. It is an easy mandarin orange cake with pineapple, nuts, pudding and whipped topping. Whip one up and it's pig-out time!

Pig Picking Cake III

This is my daughters favorite. It is an easy mandarin orange cake with pineapple, nuts, pudding and whipped topping. Whip one up and it's pig-out time!

By NELL 2

Sugar-Free Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce Recipe - A classic bread pudding recipe made with raisins and broiled with a creamy whiskey sauce before serving. This bread pudding recipe is from the famous Bon Ton Cafe in New Orleans, modified to use sucralose sweetener.

Sugar-Free Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

A classic bread pudding recipe made with raisins and broiled with a creamy whiskey sauce before serving. This bread pudding recipe is from the famous Bon Ton Cafe in New Orleans, modified to use sucralose sweetener.

By KJEPPESE

Pecan Pralines Recipe - Pecans are cooked in a sugar syrup then dropped by spoonfuls onto baking sheets to set.

Pecan Pralines

Pecans are cooked in a sugar syrup then dropped by spoonfuls onto baking sheets to set.

By Susan White

Bananas Foster Pudding Recipe - Bread, bananas, banana liqueur, cream and pecans are the featured ingredients in this rich bread pudding.

Bananas Foster Pudding

Bread, bananas, banana liqueur, cream and pecans are the featured ingredients in this rich bread pudding.

By sal

Doberge Cake Recipe - Six layers of homemade cake are filled with chocolate custard, frosted with chocolate buttercream, and glazed with chocolate ganache in this New Orleanian classic.

Doberge Cake

Six layers of homemade cake are filled with chocolate custard, frosted with chocolate buttercream, and glazed with chocolate ganache in this New Orleanian classic.

By metread