Homemade Pop Tarts
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 354.88 ml flour
- 2.46 ml salt
- 59.14 ml shortening
- 59.14 ml butter, softened
- 44.37 ml cold water
- 118.29 ml pie filling or 118.29 ml jam
- 236.59 ml powdered sugar
- 44.37 ml milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 450°F Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Add shortening and butter and blend with a fork or your hands. Blend until mixture is fairly coarse. Add water, 1 tablespoons at a time, gently mixing dough until dough forms a ball.
- 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 until dough runs out.
- Take one pie crust rectangle and spread with 1 teaspoons of jam or pie filling on top. Cover with another piece of pie crust and crimp with fork all four edges. Repeat with the rest of dough. Place Pop-tarts on a baking sheet with parchment paper, and bake for 8-10 minutes. (watch carefully after 8 minutes).
- While pop-tarts are baking, make a glaze from the powdered sugar and milk. Place powdered sugar in a bowl. Pour milk in slowly until it resembles thick syrup. 1/2 a tablespoons to 1 tablespoons might be enough.
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