Happy Wednesday! Hope everyone is having a great week and are finally getting over our food coma’s from last week’s Thanksgiving meal. Now one of my favorite treats as a kid was a strawberry pop tart. I was the kid that didn’t toast it in the toaster oven I ate it straight from the bag and I loved it. I recently have seen a bunch of amazing pictures on instagram of bakeries making their own homemade versions of pop tarts. Needless to say they all looked amazing and I wanted to learn how to make one for myself. Thanks to Tastemade they recently posted a rainbow pop tart recipe and it looks unreal!
Ingredients:
Pop Tart Dough:
-2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
-1 tsp salt
-1 tsp sugar
-1 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
-¼ – ½ cup cold water
-pink, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple food coloring
Filling:
-any jam of your choice (I personally love strawberry)
Glaze:
-3 tbsp whipping cream
-½ tsp vanilla extract
-½ cup confectioner’s sugar
-rainbow sprinkles
Directions:
- First make the dough. Mix together the flour, salt and sugar in a food processor. Add butter and pulse until it turns into a crumbly meal-like texture. Drizzle over the ice water, and pulse until the dough sticks together when squished together.
- Divide the dough into 6 balls and dye each ball a color of the rainbow with food coloring. Flatten each ball of dough into a disk and stack them up in the order of the rainbow. Twist together, then divide in half, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Roll the dough out into a rectangle 10in x 8in.
- Cut into 4 rectangles and transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Dollop 1 tsp of jam onto the center of one side of each rectangle. Fold the rectangle over to cover the jam and seal closed with a fork.
- Bake at 400F for 20 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and fully cool.
- Now the frosting. Combine the whipping cream and vanilla extract in a bowl. Add the confectioner’s sugar and whisk until fully combined.
- Spoon some glaze onto each pop tart and decorate with rainbow sprinkles.
Hope you all enjoy this Hump Day Treat!
Tastemade Website with full recipe
