Comments | mizkit: Kitsnacks: Homemade Pop Tarts

mizkit

Kitsnacks: Homemade Pop Tarts

Apr 14, 2016 15:32

Many years ago, presumably before Pop Tarts began to be a thing that occasionally showed up on Irish grocery store shelves, I got the idea into my head that one could, y’know, probably MAKE them. I looked for recipes, but never got around to making them.

A couple weekends ago I was making pot pie anyway and thought I should make up an extra batch ( Read more... )

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tersa April 14 2016, 15:57:50 UTC

Pop tarts were never my thing, but YUM!

mizkit April 14 2016, 16:06:15 UTC

They're sort of unto pop tarts as homemade mac & cheese is unto Kraft, but yeah. :)

tersa April 14 2016, 17:59:11 UTC

Hey, I like Kraft! :)

But I get your meaning.

(So, if you wanted to send some over here... >.> :)

(I kid)

deborahblakehps April 14 2016, 20:07:13 UTC

I'm not kidding. You should send me some. (Really, I twisted my knee and so can't make them myself, so you should take pity on me.)

deborahblakehps April 14 2016, 20:07:59 UTC

Could you substitute butter for the shortening?

mizkit April 14 2016, 20:28:55 UTC

Oh, yeah. I use butter, actually, because they don't have crisco over here.

dancinghorse April 14 2016, 20:34:49 UTC

We have the same pie crust recipe! Irish moms ftw.

I must try this. I wonder how it would be with a light cream-cheese frosting and no sugar in the crust? (I will have to beam down some of your incrrrrredible homemade jam.)

mizkit April 14 2016, 20:36:35 UTC

Meta Given's Modern Encylopedia of Cooking FTW!

I bet it'd be flipping amazing with those two things. I have extra cream cheese lying around. I may just experiment with it this weekend! What a good idea!

dancinghorse April 14 2016, 20:45:33 UTC

That crust recipe's been in my family for generations. :)

I could be tempted to try the poptarts myself, with a little less lurg and a little more energy. Definitely making a note!

mizkit April 14 2016, 20:50:08 UTC

Well, the cookbook is from the 1930s and heaven knows where Meta got the recipe herself. :)

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merlinofchaos April 15 2016, 04:46:36 UTC

I had to come back to this because it occurs to me that the reason they're too sweet with the frosting isn't the crust, which should be a bit sweet for something like this, but because jam is very sweet. If you're frosting them you probably want a tarter, less sweet filling to offset it.

For me though, the only poptart I ever liked were the cinnamon ones. Now that I could get behind! It'd be like a cinnamon bun pie hybrid. A little butter, cinnamon, brown sugar and cornstarch for the filling? NOM

merlinofchaos April 15 2016, 04:47:11 UTC

Now I may have to experiment one weekend.

mizkit April 15 2016, 10:32:25 UTC

Yeah, the jam is shockingly sweet in this context, which surprised me. I mean, I know it's sweet, but in combination here it was shocking. I'm going to try some with some of the sour-apple apple butter, but I also kind of want to see if I can make up some kind of more-poptart-like innards for it anyway. I'm not much of a fan of the cinnamon pop tarts, but...well. Homemade would be different, I bet. :)