Add these beautiful butterfly-shaped buns made with Pillsbury™ cinnamon rolls and topped with cherries to your bread basket.
Cinnamon Roll Butterflies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 30 min
- Ingredients 2
- Servings 8
Ingredients
- 1 can (12.4 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Cinnamon Rolls with Original Icing (8 Count)
- 16 maraschino cherries with stems
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.
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Step2Separate dough into 8 rolls. Cut each in half crosswise. On cookie sheet, place 2 halves with rounded edges touching to form butterfly shape. Slightly flatten each "butterfly."
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Step3Bake 11 to 17 minutes or until golden brown.
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Step4Remove stems from cherries. At top of each "butterfly" where "antennae" would be, make 2 small holes with toothpick; insert 2 cherry stems into each roll.
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Step5Remove lid from icing. Microwave icing on High 10 to 15 seconds or until of drizzling consistency. Drizzle icing over rolls; decorate with cherries. Serve warm.
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Nutrition
160
Calories
5g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
27g
Total Carbohydrate
13g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Roll
- Calories
- 160
- Calories from Fat
- 45
- Total Fat
- 5g
- 8%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 8%
- Trans Fat
- 2g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 340mg
- 14%
- Potassium
- 0mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 27g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 13g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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