Homemade Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts

Updated: Jul. 26, 2023

Homemade Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts Recipe picture by Taste of Home

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Dash salt
• 1 cup cold saltless butter, cubed
• 1 big egg
• 2 to 4 tablespoons 2% milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• FILLING:
• 1/2 cup seedless strawberry jam
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 big egg
• FROSTING:
• 1-1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 2 tablespoons 2% milk
• Nonpareils, optional

Directions

1. Place flour, sugar and salt in a food processor; pulse upuntil combined. Add butter; pulse till butter is the size of peas. In a little bowl, whisk egg, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla. While pulsing, include egg mix to kind wet crumbs. If required, include more of the staying milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to kind wet crumbs. Divide dough in half. Shape each into a disk; wrap and cool 1 hour or overnight.
2. For the filling, in a little bowl, integrate jam, cornstarch and vanilla extract.
3. Preheat oven to 375°. On a gently floured surfacearea, roll half the dough into a 12×8-in. rectangularshape. Cut into 8 4×3-in. rectangularshapes. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Whisk egg; brush over rectangularshapes all the method to edges. Spoon about 1 tablespoon filling over each pastry to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll staying dough into a 12×8-in. rectangularshape; cut into 8 4×3-in. rectangularshapes and location