Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls
Quick & Easy Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls are soft, warm, and bursting with cinnamon goodness. They're perfect to show your Valentine some love.
Servings: 16
Calories: 238kcal
Equipment
- 4 half sheet pans
- 3 half sheet cooling racks
- 2 Silicone Baking Mats or Parchment Paper
- medium size bowl
- Electric hand mixer
- Spatula
- Spoon
Ingredients
- 26 oz Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Rolls (2 13-oz, 8-count cans)
- 2 c Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 6 tbs Heavy Whipping Cream
- Pink Gel Food Coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two half-sheet pans with silicone baking mats or parchment paper and set them 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.
- Place the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and heavy whipping cream in a medium-sized bowl. Then, use an electric hand mixer to beat 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. 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.
- Unroll one cinnamon roll, place it on a flat surface, and fold it in half. Roll both ends inwards towards the center to form a heart shape. 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 get eight on the pan.
- Place the pan in the 350°F and bake for 15 minutes. While the first pan is baking, form the other can of cinnamon rolls into hearts. Once done baking, 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.
- 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 a half-sheet pan.
- 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.
- Yield 16 Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls
Notes
- 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. They are flat circles.
- 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 of 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.
- I've included valentine's sprinkles in my ingredients picture, however the icing for this recipe dries so quickly 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.
- These are best eaten the day they are made. However, leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to two days.
Nutrition
Calories: 238kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 332mg | Potassium: 6mg | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 83IU | Vitamin C: 0.03mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg
