With the arrival of October, we also have the arrival of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I usually try to come up with a few unique treats to help my friend Jen with her Breast Cancer Awareness fundraising she always does. It’s far more personal for her this year, as her mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. In addition to that, a friend of mine was also diagnosed this year. It’s certainly brought it all very close to home. So in trying to come up with something creative for fundraising and awareness, I thought why not make cinnamon rolls… PINK.
Not only could these be a great option for an early morning bake sale fundraiser, but also a great treat for so many of those who will be up early and walking in fundraisers this month.
I made these the same way I make all of my cake mix cinnamon rolls but with two changes. I added a teaspoon of pink gel food coloring and instead of brown sugar in the filling, I used white sugar (mainly just to keep the filling from getting too dark in color). I added the food coloring at the same time that I added the yeast/water mixture to the dry ingredients.
Ingredients
- Cinnamon Rolls
- 1 box standard size white cake mix
- 2 packages of dry yeast
- 2 tsp pink food coloring
- 2 1/2 cups of warm water
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 cups flour
- Filling
- 2 cups sugar
- Cinnamon
- 1/2-1 cup butter softened
- Frosting
- 2 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon half and half milk can be used
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
Cinnamon Rolls
- Mix yeast, food coloring and warm water until dissolved.
- Combine cake mix, salt and flour in a large bowl.
- Add warm water/yeast mixture and vanilla to cake mix, salt and flour mixture. Mix well. This may require kneading with your hands a bit to completely combine ingredients.
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