Homemade Pop Tarts

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

• 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

1. preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. 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.