Pop Pastries

Our version of a pop tart without all the junk. Buttery flaky pastry filled with yummy warm Heidi’s jam of your choosing, we recommend Strawberry for that nostalgic flavor without all the guilt.

Ingredients

Pie Dough
Make from scratch or buy your favorite freezer dough from the store.

2 cups + 2 Tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
8 oz butter chilled and diced
6 – 8 Tbsp ice water
1 jar Heidi’s Strawberry Jam
Egg for egg wash

Icing

½ cup powdered sugar
2 – 4 Tbsp cream
Dash of vanilla extract

Directions

Combine dry ingredients for dough in a food processor.
Add chilled butter and pulse until butter is in pea sized chunks. Don’t over mix.
Add 6 Tbsp of ice water and quickly pulse to combine. adjust with additional water as needed. Dough should just come together and have small pieces of butter visible. Divide dough into 2 flattened disks and wrap in plastic wrap and chill in fridge for minimum of 1 hour. The dough can also be made day before.
Dust counter with flour and roll disks out into 2 large rectangles between ¼ and ⅛ inch thick. Cut each large rectangle into 6 smaller rectangles.
Move 6 rectangles to a parchment lined baking sheet. Place about 3 spoonfuls of Heidi’s Strawberry Jam in the center of the rectangles keeping the edges clean.
Place a jamless dough rectangle on top of each rectangle with jam and seal the edges very well by pressing edges together. If the dough is dry and not sticking use a finger tip to brush a little bit of water on the inside edges of the dough.
Then use the tine end of a fork to press all the edges and poke a few holes in the top to allow steam and trapped air to escape during baking. Then chill in the refrigerator for an hour or overnight.
When ready to bake preheat oven to 375° then whisk together an egg and a little bit of water to make the the egg wash. When oven reaches temp, brush top of each tart with egg wash using a pastry brush and then bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
While tarts are baking prepare the icing by combining and mixing the 3 ingredients well.
Drizzle icing over warm pastries and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.