Homemade Pop Tarts
- 1 12 cups flour
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 14 cup shortening
- 14 cup butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- 12 cup jam (your choice)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 ounces milk, to thin
- candy sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 450F
- Combine flour and salt in a large bowl.
- Add shortening and butter and blend with a fork, pastry cutter, or your hands.
- Blend until mixture is fairly coarse.
- Add water, 1 tablespoons at a time, gently mixing dough after each addiction until dough forms a ball.
- Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll into a square/rectangle.
- To about 1/8 thickness.
- Cut out long strips about 2 inches wide and 3 inches long.
- Repeat until dough runs out.
- Take one pie crust rectangle and lace 1 teaspoons of jam on top.
- Cover with another piece of pie crust and crimp all four edges.
- Repeat with the rest of dough.
- Place Pop-tarts on a baking sheet with parchment paper, and bake for 7-8 minutes.
- While pop-tarts are baking, make glaze.
- Place powdered sugar in a bowl.
- Pour milk slowing until it has a consistency of really thick syrup.
- 1/2 a tablespoons to 1 tablespoons might be enough.
- Once pop-tarts are done and cooled, top with glaze.
- Sprinkle and decorate with colorful sprinkle.
flour, salt, shortening, butter, cold water, powdered sugar, milk, sprinkles
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/homemade-pop-tarts-285683 (may not work)