How to Make a Dong Phuong Style King Cake
Murmurs of Ricotta shares her easy, step-by-step recipe for brioche & butter cream King Cake, inspired by Dong Phuong Bakery's famous (sold out!) version
Celebrate a quarantined Carnival season by making your own Mardi Gras King Cake at home. Maria Do, the recipe developer and food blogger behind Murmurs of Ricotta, shares her award-winning homemade King Cake with us in this video, inspired by her hometown bakery Dong Phuong in New Orleans, which has already sold out of its famous king cakes for the entire 2021 season. Do's recipe makes a fluffy and moist brioche dough with cream cheese icing that has gained popularity by home bakers in Louisiana and across the country this year.
Get the full recipe here: murmursofricotta.com/king-cake.
Maria Do is the creator of the food blog Murmurs of Ricotta where she shares delicious recipes inspired by her Vietnamese, French, and New Orleanian roots. She loves to spend most of her days in the kitchen, testing out new bakes using the thirteen-year-old Kitchenaid stand mixer she first received as a young baker. Maria is an LSU alumna with a degree in mass communication and lives in Baton Rouge with her husband.