Homemade Glazed Strawberry Jam Pop Tarts
No more store bought pop tarts when you can easily make perfect homemade glazed strawberry jam pop tarts at home with 6 staple ingredients and the best part is the jam glaze & that they are so simple to make.
Equipment
- A large mixing bowl or a food processor
- Rolling Pin
Ingredients
- 2 Cups [220g] All Purpose Flour Any flour mix will work
- 3/4 Cup[100g] Unsalted Butter Cold and cubed
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3/4 Cup Milk of choice about 75ml
- 1 Cup Strawberry Jam Any Jam will work
- Any Sprinkles - optional
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl or in your food processor bowl add the flour, baking powder and the salt. Mix well.
- Add the butter and rub through the flour until the flour is crumbly and you can still see the butter chunks.
- Add milk 1 teaspoon full at a time and combine with the crumble mix. DO NOT OVER MIX, work just until the pastry dough come together. You will need about 4-6 teaspoons only. Save the rest of the milk for the glaze.
- Roll the dough between two non stick sheets into a large rectangle. Trim the edges as needed.
- Cut into 12 even sized rectangles.
- Place a teaspoon of Jam in the middle of the rectangles.[For 6 rectangles]
- Close the jam filled rectangle with another and do the same for all the tarts.
- Crimp the edges with a fork, so the Jam doesn't come out while baking.
- Arrange them on a baking tray with about 3 cm space all the sides.
- Brush the tops with milk.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes in a preheated oven of 180 degrees Celsius.
- While they bake, mix the leftover jam and milk together. You glaze is ready.
- Once the pop tarts come out of the oven, cool for a while and then add the glaze.
- Add the sprinkle if using.
- Enjoy.