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Strawberry filled Pop Tarts
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Strawberry filled Pop Tarts

By December 13, 2020December 13th, 2022No Comments

Ingredients:

Dough:

  • 3 cups De Molen [All Purpose Flour]
  • 1 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 ¼ cup cold unsalted butter

Strawberry Filling:

  1. 4 cups of strawberries
  2. ¾ cup sugar
  3. ¼ cup cornstarch
  4. pinch of salt

Egg Wash:

  1. 1 egg + 1 tablespoon water

Icing:

  1. 1 cup icing sugar
  2. Rainbow food coloring (optional)

Other filling options:

  1. Jam of choice
  2. Marshmallow fudge
  3. Chocolate

Preparation:

Dough:

  1. Add flour, sugar and salt in a food processor and pulse together. Then add the butter and  pulse until the mixture has a coarse-crumb like consistency.
  2. Transfer the dough to a bowl and mix with 1 tablespoon of ice water at a time until it forms a coherent dough. Not too dry, but flexible enough.
  3. Form your dough into a ball before flattening it into a disc. Then wrap it in plastic wrap and place it in the fridge to rest for 30 min. Make the strawberry filling in the meantime.
  4. Transfer your chilled dough to a lightly floured surface. Roll out the dough until it is ⅓ cm thick.
  5. Trim off the dough so you get a 22cm x 30cm rectangle.
  6. Mark 3 times intermittently over the rolled-out dough.  This determines the size of your pop tarts.
  7. Cut the dough completely with a dough or pizza cutter.  This should give you four individual pop tarts
  8. Before adding the filling, brush each piece of dough with egg wash.
  9. Add the strawberry filling to one side of the dough. Allow yourself a border of ½ cm while filling. When you place your strawberry filling, 1 tablespoon is ideal, otherwise the dough will crack and the pop tarts leak.
  10. Gently fold through the center and close carefully to avoid leaving air bags.
  11. Take a fork and press a pattern on the sides. Place 10 min. in the freezer in a sheet tray to make them firmer.
  12. Place in the oven at 190 ºC for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.
  13. Put on a wire rack or baking sheet to cool down.
  14. Let your pop tarts cool down completely before you place your icing.  Otherwise, it will melt away.

 

Strawberry filling:

  1. Place the strawberries in a pan on medium heat and cook  until they are soft.
  2. Mash them with a whisk or potato masher into a purée.
  3. Add your sugar and cornstarch and cook for about 2 minutes until the mixture has become thick. Then set it aside or in the fridge to cool completely.

Icing:

  1. Gradually add 1 teaspoon of water to your icing sugar at a time to achieve your icing sugar consistency.
  2. Then add the food color of your choice.

Once completely mixed, cover your poptarts with the icing using a spoon.