Individual Mini King Cakes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet with cooking spray. Open canned cinnamon rolls and separate into individual rolls.
Take one individual roll and unroll it in to full length. Fold in half. Twist together. Form into a circle and pinch the ends closed.
NOTE: the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls do not unroll, they are like biscuits, so don't buy those! The package faked us out. They look right in the picture but it's really biscuits with indentations that make it look right when baked. We made it with the Winn-Dixie store brand and those worked great. I don't know what other kinds unroll, so you may have to try more than one. You can do this with the biscuit kind but it won't be the same effect.
Place rings on the cookie sheet, far enough apart so that they do not touch. We placed a pecan half inside each one, as they used to do before the invention of the "plastic baby". You can also use a bean, or of course a real plastic baby!
Bake according to the directions on the can.
Get everything else ready while the cakes are in the oven:
Put the icing that came with the rolls into a bowl. Add milk, a few drops at a time, and stir in until it forms a thick glaze. You want it to be thin enough to drip from a spoon, but not as thin as a traditional glaze. Stir well.
If you prefer homemade icing, add milk to powdered sugar until it's the desired amount and consistency.
While the rolls are still warm, spoon the glaze over each. Let it drip down the sides. Immediately sprinkle with colored sugar. Cool if desired, or eat them warm!
We didn't have time to make our own colored sugar in the Brownie meeting, but they would like to try it sometime. Here's how:
Put granulated sugar in a bowl or ziploc bag. Add a drop or two of the desired food coloring(s). Stir or shake thoroughly, adding more color if needed to get the shade you want. be careful, though, you don't want the sugar to dissolve!
