Three Kings Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Preheat oven to 400ºF.
• Place hazelnuts in food processor; cover.
• Process, using pulsing action, until hazelnuts are finely ground. Add whipped topping, cream cheese, almonds, icing sugar and citrus peel; cover.
• Process until well blended.
• Transfer to bowl; cover.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, roll out each block of puff pastry on floured surface to 14-inch square.
• Cut a 30-cm (12-inch) circle in each square; place on baking sheets.
• Discard trimmings.
• Cover pastry circles with plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Spoon hazelnut mixture onto centre of 1 of the pastry circles, carefully spread to 1 inch of edge.
• Brush rim of pastry with egg.
• Cover with remaining pastry circle.
• Press edges together to seal.
• Use a sharp knife or pizza cutter to neatly trim edge of dough.
• Cut hole in top of dough to allow steam to escape.
• Brush dough with remaining egg.
• Bake 35 min. or until golden brown.
• Cool completely before cutting into wedges to serve.
• Ready in approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes
• Variation:
• Candied citrus peel can be found in the baking section of most grocery stores.
• If you cannot find it, use the grated peel of 1 orange instead.
• How to Easily Cut the Pastry Circles
• Place inverted bowl on pastry.
• Trace around bowl with small sharp knife to cut out each dough circle. (Top rim of bowl should measure 12 inches in order to get the proper-size pastry circle.)