Pop tarts!

 

These are delicious, fun and, although they can't be toasted, can be warmed up in the oven or microwave :)

Here are the ingredients to make around 12 pop tarts, 6 being strawberry flavour and the other 6 being sugar and cinnamon. If you would prefer to make a batch of all strawberry or all cinnamon, simply ignor the ingredients for one filling and double your chosen one. 

Ingredients
Pastry:
250g plain flour
2tbs caster sugar
1 ts salt
220g butter
2 eggs (1 for brushing over the pastry)
2tbs milk

Jam Filling:
100g strawberry jam
1ts cornstarch
1ts water

Cinnamon filling: 
80g brown granulated sugar
1ts cinnamon
1 egg (for brushing over the pastry)
4ts plain flour

Topping:
Icing sugar
Water
Sprinkles


Instructions:

1) Preheat the oven to 170°c. Mix the flour, sugar and salt together in a bowl.
2) Work in the butter with your fingers, until the mixture stays together when you squeeze it.
3) Add 1 egg and the milk and mix together well.
4) Divide the dough into 4 roughly equal parts (to make the tops and bottoms of both flavours).
5) Flour a work surface and roll out each section, and cut into rectangles about 3 x 5" in size and just under 0.5cm thick.
6) Beat the remaining egg in a bowl and brush over one side of half of the dough rectangles (12) - this helps the pop tart sides to stick together. 
7) Place 1 tbs (or more if needed) of filling (either jam, cinnamon, or both) onto the centre of the non egg-brushed rectangles. (Keep around 1/2 an inch uncovered around the edges, so that the fillings don't leak out the sides too much.)
8) Place an egg-brushed rectangle on top of each rectangle with filling on, and squeaze the edges together. Use a fork to press in around the perimetre.
9) Prick each pop tart with a fork several times. Place on a baking sheet and bake for around 30 minutes at 170°c.

10) Once done, rmove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.

11) Once relatively cool, mix up some icing and spoon onto the strawberry pop tarts (around 2ts per tart), add some sprinkles, and hey presto!
12) They can be eaten straight away (be aware of hot jam) or else eaten either cool or re-heated later on.