Homemade PopTarts

This may be my lamest recipe ever.

Right now homemade PopTarts are going around on Pinterest (do you see my new Pinterest button over there on the right?)  I thought they looked so cute!  I liked the idea of making PopTarts without all the preservatives and stuff that make up the 25 ingredient list on the box. Also, since my kids do like PopTarts I figured they would think I was awesome for making some homemade ones!

But after I made these, I thought, “This may be the lamest thing I’ve ever made for them besides a bowl of cereal.”  Because basically, I realized that PopTarts are just jam pies with sprinkles.

One recipe floating around called for making a homemade crust.  Ha!  That was a knee slapper!  I went out and bought me a box of Pillsbury pie crusts.

Then I cut one into a square:

And then I cut that into a bunch of rectangles and put some pastry filling on half of them (the pastry filling was leftover from some thumbprint cookies I made at Christmas, but you can use any jam):

Then I put another rectangle on each of those and sealed them around the edges with a fork:

Bake those babies in a 425 degree oven for 7-8 minutes.  While they’re baking, make a glaze for them using powdered sugar (about a 1/2 cup), a drizzle of milk, and a 1/4 t. of vanilla.  It should be about the consistency of syrup.  That’s not a lot of milk!  Maybe only a few tablespoons!  Add your food coloring.  I decided to make mine pink, but I used a bit too much food coloring and they look almost radioactive. Less is more, people.

Drizzle on the glaze and give it a sprinkle of sprinkles.  I think they look awful, but Maddie and Jack devoured them.   Ben (my pickiest eater) took one look at them, wrinkled his nose slightly, and said, “I think I’ll just get one out of the box.”  And then he did.

I tried taking pictures of Maddie and Jack eating them, but they were not cooperating.  Do they not know I have a blog to write?  I said, “Try to look like you’re enjoying them!”  And this is what I got:

She’s really going to regret that photo someday.

This was the best he could do?  After I slaved away in the kitchen on these PopTarts for 4 whole minutes?  Hmph.

I think this would be a fun recipe to do with your children.  But maybe I’ll just stick with pancakes on Saturday morning from now on.