Pop Tarts
Homemade copycat Pop Tarts — buttery pastry filled with fruit preserves, baked until golden, and drizzled with vanilla frosting.
Ingredients
- 0.8 cup shortening
- 0.8 cup sugar
- 3 each eggs
- 3 0.8 cup flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 cup fruit preserves
- 0.5 cup powdered sugar (for frosting)
- 0.5 tsp vanilla (for frosting)
- 2 tbsp milk (for frosting)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 2
In mixer or food processor, cream shortening and sugar together, then beat in eggs one at a time.
- 3
Sift together flour and baking powder and stir into shortening mixture to make a soft dough.
- 4
Chill dough for 1 hour.
- 5
Turn dough out onto a floured surface and roll out 12 rectangles, each about 8 x 12 inches.
- 6
Spread one tablespoon of preserves over half of each rectangle, staying well within the edge.
- 7
Fold pastry dough over the preserves and trim edges with a pastry wheel or crimp with a fork to close.
- 8
Place tarts on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Let cool.
- 9
Mix vanilla, milk, and powdered sugar until you have a thin frosting.
- 10
Dribble frosting on cooled tarts.