We are all guilty of consuming the cardboard treasures (Pop-tarts) at some point in our lives. Hey, it is better than no breakfast at all, just not much on the taste side. My favorite would probably be the brown sugar cinnamon, and it has to be toasted. Pop-Tarts are not often consumed at my house, thus, I don’t regularly buy them. We do the frozen toaster strudels sometimes, but just usually when I don’t feel like making breakfast and the kids decide to be independent. These treats however didn’t even last an hour at our house.
I saw this recipe at Peabody’s site a long time ago. Then again at Honey & Jam… and a couple of other places. Since I had a break this morning I whipped some up. Now yes, I did Honey and Jam’s version using a refrigerated pie crust. Now that I know how well they turn out, I will try the pastry recipe next time. I used Strawberry preserves from Harry & David. This is a great, easy recipe – don’t waste your money on the store bought version and bake up some of your own.
Homemade Strawberry Pop Tarts
Ingredients:
- Pie crust, refrigerated or homemade (see below)
- Jam or Preserves
- Glaze or Egg Wash
- Sparkling Sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. (I went by the temp setting on the box, the original recipe calls for 450.)
Unroll one of the pie crusts and square the edges. Cut into rectangles. Place 1 tsp of jam in the center of a rectangle and top with another piece of crust. Crimp all four edges. Repeat until all of the pie crust is used. I also took the rounded edges that I cut off and rolled them together to form more pop-tarts. They weren’t as “pretty” as the others, but I hate to waste food.
Bake the pop-tarts for about 7 – 8 minutes or until slightly brown. Once cool, pour glaze over and decorate with sugar. If you don’t want to add extra sugar with the glaze, you can use an egg wash on the tops with some white sugar.
Take one pie crust rectangle, fill with a tsp of jam. Cover with another piece of pie crust. Crimp all four edges. Repeat until you run out of pie crust. Bake at 450F for abou7-8 minutes or until slightly brown. Set aside to cool. Once cooled, pour glaze on to Pop-tart and decorate with sparkling sugar.
To Make the Glaze:
- 1 cup powder sugar
- milk to thin
Place powdered sugar in bowl. Pour milk slowly until it has a consistency of really thick syrup.
Ingredients:
- 1-1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons cold water
Directions:
Combine flour and salt in bowl. Add shortening or butter and blend with fork, pastry cutter or your fingers until mixture is fairly coarse. Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, gently mixing dough after each addition until dough forms a ball. (Dough can also be prepared in food processor. Use the pulse button just until it starts to pull away from the sides. Be very careful not to overwork the dough.) Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll into a square/rectangle. Cut out long strips about 2 inches wide, and 3 inches long. Repeat till you run out of dough.
Wow, I never realized they could be so easy! I never buy the ‘big box’ for home, but I am guilty of grabbing them from the shop in my office building.
These are absolutly drool worthy!!! Great photo! Love the sprinkles!
Hmm, I just recently was thinking about trying to make my own pop tarts. I’m going to have to come up with some kind of interesting filling, because I’m odd like that, but yours look awesome!
Those look wonderful! And I have pie dough in the fridge how perfect is that!
Adorable and such a good idea! My nieces would just love these…so cute!
those came out so good. I know these are hard to make. My first batch didn’t come out as good as these.
They look so great! I’ve seen a few recipes for homemade pop tarts, and now I really want to try making them!
These look more delicious and more pretty than the box ones.
I may have to try these some weekend.
I love this idea! I often crave Pop Tarts, but don’t buy them because they are filled with all kinds of yucky ingredients. This is a great alternative. I love the brown sugar kind as well, and the white cream variety, and the chocolate… Don’t get me started!
These look incredible, and so sparkly! What a clever idea to make your own, thanks for sharing!
These look amazingly perfect. My children would soo love them I am starring this right now. Another fabulous post!
Oh my gosh! These look delicious! I will admit that I love strawberry poptarts with icing, but I don’t have to feel guilty anymore: you just showed me how to make one of my favorite treats! I haven’t had a poptart in years, but that ends this weekend. I am so making these!
These beauties would make me happy every morning if I could indulge in them! Gorgeous!!
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hello,
since i moved to germany i havent had pop tarts anymore….so its really great to find a recipe, so i can make some for myself. cause i LOVE em…i have a question though: once these have cooled, can i heat them again by toasting them? or will the frosting melt or something like that? cause i think they taste best straight from the toaster
If you have an upright toaster, I wouldn’t put them in frosted. My suggestion would be to make them and not put the frosting on – store them in the freezer then pop them in the toaster when you want one… then frost. A tablespoon of 10x sugar and a drop or two of milk would do it! Once mine cooled they firmed up nicely. We threw ours in the microwave to heat it…
oh, cool idea. i made these last night using the store-bought pie crust and they turned out great. really easy to make, too. not as pretty as yours though-i was a strawberry jam pig, and overfilled my pies. thanks for the recipe.
Try filling these w Nutella instead of jam.
These look so yummy! Great photography. I posted a link on my edible crafts column at craftgossip.com if that’s OK. thanks for sharing! (ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com)
Hello! I am visiting thanks to CraftGossip, and the feature, I can never seem to find Pop tarts here in Australia, so I was very pleased to see this recipe! I love the Easter sunflower cake you made too, it not only looks beautiful, it looks really delicious too! I’ll be book marking this recipe to try some day!
I like to use a tbs instead of a tsp. Instead of jam, have you tried hot fudge topping? It is so goood. We refridgerated the topping easier to handle that way. After they are sealed …poke a couple of venting holes. After the glaze is applyed, melt a little of the topping and drizzle over. Hide that batch way back in the freezer. Make another for the family to share.
No, but I will now! Thank you!
These look wonderful! I wonder–could I make them with puff pastry dough instead of regular frozen pie crust? I am incapable of making my own pastry crust–my mother says my hand is too heavy–but I have frozen puff pastry on hand right now!
Oh, I’m sure of it. Sounds reminiscent of a toaster strudel… probably better tasting and better for you too. I agree, I could dismiss all thoughts of homemade pie crust at the site of a prepared box!
Great, great recipe! I cook mine just until they are perfectly doughy (just the way I like them). To make my job easier I make it “a calzone” I spread the dough into a big circle and then simply fill it with just enough jam and fold over. My egg wash was one egg with about 1 tsp of water. Great recipe. So good, but my golly its really bad for you! Thanks!
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looks amazing, I guess i am going to postpone my diet
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ooooh! I have been looking for a homemade recipe that is sweet and yummy that the kids would like with NO high fructose corn syrup.
YUM!
These look awesome!
ok, i have made these a ton of times but thought i would re check my recipe today and typed in homemade poptarts and your blog came up. just wanted you to know. i think i will make them today with nutella
I saw your internet site via yahoo the other day and absolutely love it. Keep up the fantastic work.
I want to make your poptarts (they look soooo good) , just one question , do you add shortening and butter? or shortening or butter?.
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Thanks
I actually used Pillsbury’s Refrigerated Pie Crust for the Pop Tart mentioned here. But as far as homemade crusts are concerned all butter would be my first choice, followed by a half butter, half butter flavored shortning is the best.
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Can you use real fruit or like a pie filling? These sound really good, but I am looking for less sweetness than Jam. I don’t know how I would go about using the real fruit though without having to add sugar. They look absolutely delicious in the picture!!! Thank you. =)
Love this recipe! Thanks so much for sharing. Going to make it again this weekend with this almond-berry pie filling, any advice for substitutions?
http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/recipes/desserts-a-goodies-/almond-berry-licious-pie
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My daughter just forwarded me your recipe, from college. She wants us to make them next time she comes home. But, I have a question. How big do you make your rectangles, for the one teaspoon of filling. That doesn’t seem like enough filling for a regular store-bought sized pop tart. Just wondered about how many you got out of your first cutting of the store bought crusts. Thanks so much… I can’t wait to try these!
These sound delicious – and look easy enough that I could make them! Thanks for the pastry crust recipe.
We made these last night! Super easy and boy did we go crazy with the fillings =) Strawberry, black raspberry, peanut butter & honey, cinnamon & brown sugar, and our personal favorite, hands down-nutella & marshmallow
We tried these last weekend and …. mmmmmmmmmm! We tried Strawberry and it was good, but, using my peach freezer jam was out of this world!
I make these every chance I get and they never last more than two days!! I have also used nutella, chocolate sauce and every jam imaginable! Wonderful! Thanks so much!!
Yummers….I love em
Wow!! Looks so yummy. Wish to had this.
i made some pop tarts yesterday and they turned out pretty good, I used a cinnamon sugar filling though from this website http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/04/homemade-pop-tarts/ I’m going to do Nutella filling next, and thanks for posting the recipe!
I made a chocolate version of these [hot fudge for the insides and coacoa added to the glaze], and they are DELICIOUS! My younger brother is drooling over them and keeps eating them before I even glaze them, ahah. And since I’m a vegetarian and can’t eat real Poptarts because of the gelatin in them, these make the perrrrfect substitute!
Thank you so much for this recipe!
Wow, that sounds great! I will have to try that idea… my oldest daughter’s favorite pop tart is the chocolate fudge version!
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how many does pop-tarts does this yield? Thanks
If you are using a box of refrigerated pie crust, which has two crusts, it will yeild about 15 if you cut then in about 2 x 3″ squares. It more or less is based on how much pie crust you have and how large you slice them.
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thank you thank you thank you! my youngest son LOOOOOOOVES pop tarts but they’re so NOT healthy so I’ve completely stopped buying them (much to his dismay). this will solve the issue completely! Now to come up with a brown sugar cinnamon version (his favorite). THANK YOU!
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They look good but I don’t see how any of you find them to be ‘healthy’ lol – white flour, shortening and sugar? The tiny bit of fruit in the jam/jelly hardly cancels any of that out.
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Yum!
Sure, white flour shortening & sugar.
But without the chemicals & preservatives, not to mention additives that make you ,litterally “crave” them like my children seemed to. I do believe food companies are out to make as much $ as they can and do in fact put ingredients that are addictive into a wide variety of products on the store shelves. It’s about time people are wizening up! Any one can assume chemical free has got to be waaay, healthier.
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These Look awesome!!!!! XD
I tried this recipe! Just thought I’d let you know in case you wanted to check it out… http://happymisadventures.blogspot.com/2011/12/homemade-poptarts.html
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These look SO good. Do you think they would freeze well for future use? I’m having a baby soon and trying to think of breakfast and snack ideas Dad can warm up and not destroy.
the questions I have is : When you make a big batch can you freeze them ? If so what do you use to package them ? and, How long will they last in the freezer ?
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