I was looking for something festive, but easy to make to share with my co-workers on Valentine's Day, obviously I went on Pinterest. Well, not obviously. But that *is* a good place to just see a bunch of ideas in one place. I saw this recipe's photo, followed it to the Pillsbury site, and thought: "Dang! Easy, cute, cheaper than bakery cinnamon rolls. A winner!"
Well, it turns it it wasn't as easy as I thought. "But, why?" you might ask. Well, apparently the Pillsbury people make several different kinds of cinnamon rolls and they are relatively different...and the vital preliminary task of unrolling the cinnamon rolls is made significantly harder if they are not technically rolled in the first place. Yep, somehow I managed to buy the type of rolls that are more of a solid roll with cinnamon stuff on top.
"Ok. No problem," I thought. I can do this. And I did! They turned out pretty cute, actually. Here's what I did:
1. Take a cinnamon roll and rip it in half. Then stretch each half out and pinch ends together to made one long piece. (Now, if I'd really been thinking, I would've just cut a spiral myself. But did I do that? Uh, no.)
2. Fold long piece in half and pinch bottom together.
3. Roll under loose ends to make a heart-shape
5. Bake according to the package directions
6. Separate the rolls and then use frosting that came in package, if you like. (I left mine plain and brought the frosting and a knife, so that people could add as much or as little as they liked.)
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