Homemade Pop Tarts
Pop tarts made at home — sourdough pop tarts, pie crust pop tarts, cinnamon pop tarts, strawberry pop tarts — for slow mornings and lunchbox treats.
★ breakfast
breakfastIngredients
- ¾ cup sourdough discard
- 1 cup cold and cubed unsalted butter
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 for egg wash egg
- ¾ cup strawberry raspberry or blueberry fruit jam or preserves
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1In a large bowl, mix sourdough discard, flour, and salt. Cut in cold butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- 2Form into a dough ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- 3Roll out dough on a floured surface to ¼-inch thickness. Cut into equal-sized rectangles.
- 4Place jam in the center of half the rectangles, leaving space around the edges.
- 5Brush edges with egg wash, top with another dough rectangle, and press edges with a fork to seal.
- 6Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet, brush tops with egg wash, and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 18-22 minutes.
- 7In a small bowl, mix powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- 8Once pop tarts are cooled, drizzle icing over the top and let set before serving.
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A pop tart from your own oven is a different thing entirely — warm, flaky, and filled with as much jam as you want. It's a boxed breakfast turned into something worth sitting down for.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on Sunday afternoons when there's time to roll dough, or on a weeknight when refrigerated pie crust does the heavy lifting and the kids want something sweet.
Every recipe here starts from scratch or from a shortcut crust: Homemade Sourdough Pop Tarts for the discard jar, Pie Crust Pop Tarts and Cinnamon Pop Tarts with brown sugar filling, Homemade Strawberry Pop Tarts, Homemade Fudge Chocolate Pop Tarts, and Apple Pie Puff Pastry Pop Tarts.
Quick Tips
- 1
Keep the butter cold
Cube the butter and chill it 10 minutes before cutting it into the flour. Cold pieces make the steam pockets that give you flaky layers.
- 2
Don't overfill them
Use about 1 tablespoon of jam per tart and leave a 1/2-inch border. Any more and it bubbles out the sides while baking.
- 3
Seal with a fork
Brush the edges with a little water or egg wash, press with fork tines all the way around, then poke 3 or 4 steam vents in the top.
- 4
Cool before icing
Let the tarts sit on a rack at least 20 minutes. Icing on a warm tart slides right off onto the pan.
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