Pop-Tarts are advertised as a breakfast food for kids and after school snack. Processed Pop-Tarts are full of artificial colors, ingredients and refined sugars. Making Pop-Tarts from scratch is easy and a great way to introduce your kids to baking.
Homemade Pop tarts
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour organic unbleached all purpose, spelt, organic whole wheat
- 1 stick butter organic from grass fed cows cut into small pieces
- pinch of salt
- 1/3 cup cold water
Vanilla Glaze
- Powdered sugar organic, or Swerve brand sugar free
- vanilla
- dash of whole milk or cream organic, grass fed cows
Options
- Mix warmed fruit used inside pop tart with powdered sugar
- cocoa powder with the vanilla glaze
- peppermint extract
- cinnamon and brown sugar with vanilla glaze
Filling Options
- Dark chocolate chips
- peanut butter and jelly
- Blueberries heat fresh or frozen fruit in a small sauce pan and slowly heat, you can add 1T of sweetener as well
- Strawberries
- Cinnamon and brown sugar with powdered sugar glaze
Instructions
- preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Cut butter into flour and salt and combine completely. Add cold water (give or take 1/3 cup) and working the mixture into a dough. Knead briefly. Roll the dough into a thin sheet and using either a pizza roller, knife or rectangular cutters, cut the dough into your desired size of rectangles for the pop tart. Place a small amount of filling in the middle of one rectangle and press second sheet onto top and press the sides together. Prick the top with a fork a few times and bake for about 15-20 minutes until they are just starting to brown. Cool and cover with a glaze. Store in fridge or freezer and simply reheat in a toaster oven or eat cold.