so, bon appetit did a little recipe story about homemade pop tarts last month.
i find it amusing when home-making something that is often mass produced and laden with junk becomes trendy gourmet. kind of like whoopie pies, the french fry craze (fried in duck fat), the mini hamburgers (aka sliders), reeces pb cups, and marshmallows. but, hey, i know how to go with the flow. and i kinda like it. like we're stickin it to the man. (whoever that man is who makes all of these things.)
when i am thinking of a dessert to make for a memorial day cookout, i though to myself, what the hey, might give it a try. no way i would eat those for breakfast, i would be comotose by 9am. especially with the vanilla ice cream piled on.
and i did have 3 tons of homemade strawberry jam from a few weeks back, see here.
on with the pop tarts.
no professionally clean surface area blog photos here in this post. this is real life that i live by the way. (i really do not understand how the really good food blogs always keep everything looking so shiny while they are baking. not a speck of flour out of the bowl. thats not right..... thats not natural..... and i dont care who you are.) none of that here.
this is real life i tell ya.
so first, flour and a dab of sugar.
then a little butter mixed up in that flour.
then a little ice water.
then cool it down in the fridge. wait and wait and wait.
then cut into squares and put jam in a line down the center.
then cover. then crimp.
then freeze. and wait wait wait.
then take to final destination and bake and eat. with a fair amount of ice cream.
(and the leftover ones, cause you might not bake them all the first day, yeah, those, you can keep in the freezer and take out whenever you are ready to eat. put in oven. cook. and eat. and no they cant go in the toaster.)
for real though, i am still unsure why they have to refer to them as a poptart. this is a fine pastry i tell you. a FINE pastry that has 5 total ingredients. 5 i tell you.
please make these. and you can call them turnovers (not technically a turnover, but really closer than pop tart.) if you want. thats kind of what i did. i had no choice. who goes to a cookout and says, "i made pop tarts for dessert, but hey, we can eat them with ice cream."
the recipe i used is here. i didnt follow it exactly, but i know you probably figured that.
