Nice Homemade Strawberry Pop-Tarts

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Back inwards the 1990s, Pop-Tarts were every kid's favorite breakfast / snack. You were considered "cool" if you lot brought 1 of those shiny foil packets alongside the 2 frosted, sugary-filled pastries to school.

My mom refused to purchase me Pop-Tarts. She was likewise busy making certain I genuinely ate salubrious meals alongside nutritional value (oh, the horror). Actually, 1 fourth dimension she did purchase Pop-Tarts, but she bought them without the frosting. She said that's simply how they construct them now. They tasted horrible without the frosting, of course, because the Pop-Tart's pastry crust genuinely isn't really practiced unless it's covered inwards sugar.

Recently I decided to construct my ain version of strawberry pop-tarts alongside a to a greater extent than flavorful crust in addition to filling. If you lot intend most it, strawberry pop-tarts are genuinely simply paw pies alongside preserves within instead of pie filling. 

I started the pop-tarts alongside my mom's pie crust recipe. It's flaky in addition to buttery in addition to genuinely unproblematic to make. The recipe genuinely calls for all of the ingredients to live combined inwards a nutrient processor which is a lot easier than using a pastry cutter or your hands. I highly recommend using a practiced character butter similar Challenge butter for maximum flavor. It's made alongside existent cream in addition to without artificial flavors or coloring. 

If you're brusque on fourth dimension or simply don't experience confident making your ain pie crust, don't fret! You tin ever purchase a refrigerated shop bought crust.

For the filling, I used approximately leftover strawberry preserves that I notwithstanding had from strawberry flavour final year. You tin absolutely purpose store-bought strawberry preserves instead. Just construct certain you lot select a construct that is depression inwards saccharide -- there's going to live plenty saccharide inwards the frosting.

The frosting recipe took me a piddling spell to figure out. You should live able to spread it, but it needs to live thick plenty to harden. I constitute the perfect ratio to live 1 tablespoon milk for 1 loving cup powdered sugar. If it's likewise thick for you, whisk inwards most 1/2 teaspoon of milk. If it's likewise thin, add together 1/8 loving cup powdered sugar. It's best to alone add together a piddling at a time. Also, I recommend testing it on a corner of 1 of your pop-tarts outset in addition to making certain it volition ready earlier frosting all of them.

I realize this seems similar a long procedure for something you lot tin purchase at the grocery shop for $2.99, but I hope all of the steps are really easy. Plus, these homemade pop-tarts sense of savor infinitely meliorate than the store-bought ones.

Homemade Strawberry Pop-Tarts

Yield: Makes most 8 StrawberryPop-Tarts

Ingredients

For the crust

• 1 1/2 loving cup flour
• 5 Tablespoon Challenge butter, cold in addition to cutting up
• 1/4 loving cup shortening, mutual coldness in addition to cutting up
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 Tablespoon H2O ice mutual coldness water

*Or 1 box refrigerated pie crust, using both rolls within box

For the filling

• Egg launder (egg + 2 Tablespoons milk)
• 1/2 loving cup strawberry preserves

For the glaze

• 1 loving cup powdered sugar
• 1 Tablespoon milk

Directions

For the crust

• Add flour, butter, shortening in addition to common salt to nutrient processor. Pulse inwards 3-second intervals until combined. Mixture volition appear similar sand.
• Add inwards H2O in addition to pulse again--just until the dough starts to teach crumbly in addition to stick together.
• Dump the dough into a bowl in addition to shape it into a ball alongside your hands.
• Wrap dough inwards plastic roll in addition to chill for xxx minutes.
• Roll out dough in addition to hence it's most 1/8 inch thick. Use a knife to trim back the edges of the dough in addition to hence it looks similar a rectangle.
• Cut xvi equal-sized rectangles into the dough.

For the filling

• Brush each rectangle lightly alongside egg wash.
• Add a Tablespoon of strawberry preserves to the middle of one-half of the rectangles in addition to spread, leaving 1/2 inch from edges.
• Place approximately other rectangle on orbit (egg launder side down) in addition to seal the edges alongside your fingers.
• Use a fork to plication in addition to seal the edges in addition to gently poke the orbit alongside a fork a few times to let the steam to escape.
• Refrigerate the pop-tarts for most twenty minutes in addition to preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Remove from refrigerator, brush alongside egg wash, in addition to bake for 22 to 24 minutes or until golden brown.

For the glaze

• Whisk to combine powdered saccharide in addition to milk, glaze should live really thick but notwithstanding spreadable.
• Decorate cooled pop-tarts alongside glaze in addition to sprinkles.
• Store pastries inwards air tight container for upward to 1 week.

*If using refrigerated pie crust, skip to the business office inwards directions that requires you lot to shape pie dough into rectangle.