Cinnamon Roll "Cupcakes"

Do your kids ever ask to help you bake in the kitchen and flour, egg, sugar and chocolate all over your kitchen instantly come to mind? Happens to me all the time. I would love nothing more than to let my kids help me in the kitchen whenever they want but the truth is I don't want to clean up their messes every time. Because their messes...are huge! So I am constantly on the look out for extremely simple yet fun things for the kids to cook up in the kitchen. The other day while I was making cinnamon rolls, a family favorite, I thought..how fun would it be to make these into cupcakes?...so I did.

 The only thing I needed was cupcake wrappers, a muffin tin and a can of your favorite cinnamon rolls. I used Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Rolls with Butter Creme Frosting. I used regular paper cupcake wrappers and found the the rolls stuck a little bit and the paper absorbed a little of the moisture of the rolls, I would recommend using foil lined wrappers to eliminate this dryness.

You can take the rolls and push them into the wrappers in the muffin tin but I recommend putting the rolls in the wrapper prior to putting them in the muffin tin. They don't get squished that way.

The can calls for 12-13 minutes at 375 degrees however I ended up having to cook the rolls an additional 2 minutes to get them all the way done in the middle.

After your rolls are done remove them from the pan for 5-8 minutes to let them cool. Then add the provided frosting/icing and enjoy! Your kids will love to help make this and there is really hardly any cleanup! Win-Win right, Mom??

Until next time...

Bea