Baked Toaster-like Pastries
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup margarine
1/4 cup water
fruit jam or preserves, as needed
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet and set aside. In a bowl, combine the flours (you can use whatever flour you want).
2. Add the margarine and cut into flour with pastry cutter or fork, adding water as needed; I didn't need the full 1/4 cup. Divide dough into 4 equal sized balls, and on a floured surface, roll each out one at a time into a rectangle shape.
3. On 1/2 the rectangle, spread about 1 tablespoon (or more if you like) of jam, leaving an edge of dough visible. Fold dough over to cover the jam and use a fork to connect the edges. You might need a little water to get them to hold together, if you use a lot of flour to roll it out.
4. When all 4 are done, put them on the cookie sheet and bake for 12-18 minutes. Take them off the cookie sheet and let rest on a cooling rack.
SO HOW'D IT GO?
so i sort of took this idea and ran with it. instead of a sweet filling, i decided to make a sort of "beef" patty/baked samosa type filling ('cause i'm not so into sweet stuff). so i boiled and chopped some potatoes, boiled some frozen peas, sauted some onion and garlic with some crumbed vegan mushroom "meat" balls...then i mixed it all together with some tomato sauce (like a tablespoon) and spices and stuffed it into the crust...SO GOOD!! i just couldn't stop eating them. i had to make 2 batches of the crust (but that was my fault, i didn't think it all the way through). next time, i'll lessen the margarine a bit in the crust. MMMMMmmmm!! thanks for the recipe and inspiration.
Do they freeze well?
You have no idea how much I want to make these RIGHT NOW. And fill them with something really neat and yummy - like blackstrap molasses, sunflower seed butter, carob chips, or plain fruit... I wonder what bananas would taste like in this. Would they survive the oven...?
I'll bet you could freeze these and put them in the toaster whenever you want one.
Yum! These were really, really good! I didn't have pastry flour, so I just used whole wheat. From my organic store I bought blackberry jam! The only thing though, I found, was that they were a little too buttery for me. As in, I could really taste the butter. So I think next time, I'm going to add a little less, and maybe try for apple sauce or something. Other than that, great recipe!
It's not exactly like regular pop-tart icing though. And this kind of upsets me. It dries and everything (meaning it's not sticky and you can stack the "pop-tarts"), but it doesn't taste the same or have the same texture. Any ideas?
if it's anything like sugar cookie frosting, i think i've heard you can bake the frosting on the pastry. there's also a pre-made vegan frosting (pillsbury's funfetti vanilla frosting only) that i think states that you can bake it to solidify it, but i could be wrong. good luck though, and i'll be trying this recipe very soon.
they used to make poptart 'bites', which were just mini poptarts, i may attempt to recreate those.
Mmm, way better than Pop Tarts. I made these as a belated Father's Day gift for Dad but was able to sample one that came out a little broken (didn't add enough water to my second batch) and it was great! I may cut the fat next time to make them a little healthier, but as is, the tarts were nice, moist, and crumbly but in a good pastry fashion. I made four with strawberry preserves and four with blueberry so Dad would have a variety. Not something I will make regularly because of time and mess, but they will be made again! :)
Definitely poke the pockets with a fork before baking, mine expanded and popped open because it couldn't "vent"
yeah i forgot to write that in the recipe because i cook so many pies and stuff i'm just used to venting the crust without thiinking about it ::)
Yumm. I baked them too long and made up my own filling, and that didn't work too well, but nothing wrong with the recipe :)
Definitely poke the pockets with a fork before baking, mine expanded and popped open because it couldn't "vent"
Yum!
I halved the recipe so that I'd only have two poptarts and subbed a 1/2 cup of unsweetened applesauce in place or margarine and it worked perfectly. I used whole wheat flour, but they came out a little dense, so next time I'll try 1/2 whole wheat flour and 1/2 whole wheat pastry (I just didn't have any pastry flour this time!)
Perfect and nonfat!!! ;) Waaaaay better than the boxed kind!
Thanks so much for this posting!
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