May 1, 2015

  • Pop Tarts

    Two days ago I found a recipe online for homemade pop tarts. I printed it out thinking, "One of these days I'll give this a try." Yesterday there was a long thread on Facebook about pop tarts. It's sort of like the universe was telling me, "Melinda, look at this delicious pop tart recipe. Okay, if you're not going to follow through, look at this long conversation about pop tarts. Melinda, MAKE THOSE POP TARTS!" So this morning I made pop tarts for breakfast -- from scratch.

    The recipe is unnecessarily long, mainly because it includes a pie crust recipe. Whenever I make a pie, a make a triple recipe of pie dough and put two-thirds of it in the freezer, divided into two, gallon-size Ziploc freezer bags. So I just grabbed one of those bags out of the freezer and let it thaw. Voila! Three-fourths of the recipe done! When the pie dough was thawed, I divided it into two balls, rolled each ball of dough out into a rectangle, and cut each rectangle into smaller rectangles. I put half the small rectangles on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet and opened a jar of homemade strawberry jam. I put a dollop of jam in the middle of each dough rectangle, spread it out to within about a half-inch of the edges of the dough, covered each jam-covered rectangle with one of the remaining dough rectangles, pinched the edges closed with my fingers, brushed the edges with water and then pinched them closed with the tines of a fork. I placed the cookie sheet in a 375 degree oven and baked for 25 minutes. Here's what they looked like when they came out of the oven.

    5.1 poptarts 1

    Next I mixed up a simple powdered sugar/vanilla/milk glaze and spread over the top of each tart. I then sprinkled each one with nonpareils (commonly referred to as sprinkles, but I didn't want to write that I sprinkled the top with sprinkles because it sounds redundant). Here is what they looked like after glazing and sprinkling.

    5.1 poptarts 2

    Not as pretty as the store bought version, but way, way better tasting! I ate two for breakfast. Be jealous.

Comments (6)

  • Gorgeous!! and tasty too.... :)

  • Hmmm. I bet they would be even better with Raspberry jam!!! I might just have to give this a try...

  • Oh, yum -- I had the same thought as Val about raspberry jam! I think they do look better than ones that come out of a box -- those always look like cardboard to me!

  • Yum. I bet they made the house smell good too.

  • Wow ~ that is impressive ~ and yes, I just KNOW they tasted way better ~ homemade always does ~ :)

  • I was thinking raspberry pop tarts too...I would forgo the sprinkles and slather the tops with butter!

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