Homemade Pop Tarts
Homemade Strawberry Pop-Tarts are a fun and simple treat that combines flaky pie crust, sweet strawberry preserves, and a creamy frosting. They’re perfect for a quick breakfast, a sweet snack, or a dessert that feels a little nostalgic.
This recipe uses pre-made pie crusts, which makes the process faster and easier, all the while still delivering that fresh, homemade taste. This recipe is quick and beginner-friendly, requiring only a handful of ingredients and minimal effort.
Of Course, Make it Your Own
Using pre-made pie crusts simplifies the process while giving you all the buttery flakiness you’d expect from scratch-made pastries. If you want to make homemade pie dough, go for it! You can use one pie crust recipe to equal the two pie crusts called for.
Likewise, you can sub out any homemade jam (try carrot cake jam) for the strawberry jam in this recipe. Jelly may turn out to be too liquidy in these pop-tarts so try to use jam instead.
What You Need For This Recipe
You don’t need too many special ingredients to make these homemade pop-tarts. Once you have the pie crusts in the fridge you can make these any time you want! And don’t forget you can freeze those store-bought pie crust too so if you want to pop the in the freezer they’ll last a while until you’re ready to enjoy homemade pop-tarts.
- refrigerated pie dough OR use your own homemade pie dough
- water
- strawberry jam OR use any other homemade jam (hint: try carrot cake jam!)
- Powdered Sugar
- Milk or cream
- rainbow sprinkles
When To Serve Homemade Pop-Tarts
These are so fun to make for a weekend breakfast. Or make them ahead of time for fun weekday breakfasts. Or for a fun surprise make them and serve them for a brunch with friends!
Strawberry Pop-Tarts
Ingredients
- 2 refrigerated pie crusts 1 box typically has 2 crusts in it, so you need just one box
- 1/2 cup strawberry jam you may use more or less
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 TBSP milk start with just one TBSP of milk and add only as much milk as you need to make it able to be drizzled
- rainbow sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°
- Line a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, set aside
- Roll the pie crusts flat Cut 10-12 small squares (or make them bigger or smaller as desired) onto each pie crust for a total of 20
- Place 10 of the square crusts on the lined sheet
- Scoop one tablespoon of strawberry preserves onto one crust
- Using a knife, smooth it out but do not spread it out all the way to the edge
- gently dab the edges with a little water
- Top the strawberry preserves with another piece of square crusts
- Use a fork to crimp the edges of the crust and make sure no strawberry preserves leak out
- Bake the pop-tarts in the oven at 425 for 12 minutes
- Let the strawberry pop-tarts cool while you make the icing
- Make the icing by combining 1 cup of powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon of milk, then add just enough milk to make it of thick drizzling consistency
- Stir it until it is smooth, if it is too thick add a splash of milk and stir again
- Drizzle or dollop the frosting onto the strawberry pop-tarts and spread smooth with a knife
- Add rainbow sprinkles as desired and serve while still slightly warm
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