Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls

Looking for a sweet and romantic Valentine's Day treat that doesn't require hours in the kitchen? These Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls are the perfect way to show your love. Soft, warm, and bursting with cinnamon-sugar goodness, they're a delicious and effortless way to celebrate with your sweetheart.

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• Ingredients - Here's What You'll Need
• Steps to Make Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls
• Recipe Tips and Tricks
• Other Great Valentine's Day Recipes
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Ingredients - Here's What You'll Need

Steps to Make Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two half-sheet pans with silicone baking mats or parchment paper and set aside until ready to use. Place two half-sheet cooling racks inside the other two half-sheet pans and set them aside until ready to use. Then, make the icing by placing the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and heavy whipping cream in a medium-sized bowl.

2. Use an electric hand mixer to beat the icing ingredients until smooth and creamy. Open the two cans of cinnamon rolls and add both containers of icing to the bowl. Beat with the electric hand mixer until well combined.

3. Add a few drops of pink gel food coloring to the icing and beat with the hand mixer until uniform in color. Cover the bowl and set aside until ready to ice the cinnamon rolls.

4. Unroll one cinnamon roll.

5. Place the cinnamon roll on a flat surface and fold it in half.

6. Roll both ends inwards towards the center to form a heart shape.

7. Place the cinnamon roll heart on one of the prepared sheet pans with the silicone baking mats, making sure to pinch the center and bottom of the heart together to form a sharp point. Repeat forming the cinnamon roll hearts until you have eight on the pan. Then, place the pan in the 350°F oven and bake for 15 minutes. While the pan is baking, form the other can of cinnamon rolls into hearts.

8. Remove the pan from the oven and place it on a wire cooling rack. Place the second pan in the oven and bake it for 15 minutes.

9. While the cinnamon rolls are still hot, use a spatula to remove them from the pan and place them on one of the wire cooling racks set in the half-sheet pans.

10. Immediately spoon the icing over the hot cinnamon rolls. Once the second pan is finished baking, repeat removing it from the oven, transferring the rolls to the other prepared wire cooling rack pan, and spooning icing on top.

These Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls are the perfect Valentine's Day breakfast (or dessert!). With minimal effort, you can whip up a batch of warm, gooey, and love-filled treats that your special someone will adore. Get ready to impress your Valentine with these simple yet impressive treats!

Recipe Tips and Tricks

• I've included valentine's sprinkles in my ingredients picture. However the icing for this recipe dries so quickly that I wasn't able to use them. If you want to top these cinnamon rolls with sprinkles, I would recommend decorating each cinnamon roll one at a time; icing them one at a time then immediately topping with sprinkles.

• The reason you should prepare two half-sheet pans with wire cooling racks inside is so that the icing has somewhere to collect as it drips off the cinnamon rolls. If you run out of icing before all of the cinnamon rolls are covered, remove the cooling rack from inside the pan and scrape up the icing that has dripped off the cinnamon rolls and settled on the bottom of the pan to use to finish icing the cinnamon rolls.

• If you can't find Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Rolls (they have a yellow stripe around one of the ends of the can) you can use another variety, just make sure they're the ones that unroll. Don't try and use the Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with Original Icing (with the red stripe around one end) or the Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing (with a grey stripe around the end) because neither of these unroll. Both are flat circles

• These are best eaten the day they are made. However, leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to two days.

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