we're making pop tarts
better and vegan
so ready
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welcome and welcome back my name is
Andrew i'm part of a duo
creating recipes at makeitdairyfree.com
today we have a recipe that is so
versatile
so amazing and it is insanely easier
than it looks
to create and this recipe is um it's not
just for kids
yes these are adult pop-tarts
okay uh okay um
so not like that not like these aren't
not
these aren't xxx pop-tarts
it ain't it ain't that kind of party
although they're uh
there is some serious food porn on this
channel
if you know what i mean what we're gonna
be going over today
is literally the basics i want to help
inspire
creations of your own and to all my
folks who
just need to be more efficient make sure
you listen closely because i
always go over ways for you to create
the recipe and really save yourself some
time and energy
in the kitchen alright guys enough said
let's do it
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we're going to start out by making the
pastry or i guess you can call it the
crust
this is what we're going to stuff all of
our filling in just an fyi
the crust doubles down as a pie crust so
get
good at making this this way when the
season comes to
chef up some pies you're already ahead
of the game to start you're going to add
all of the dry ingredients and give it a
whisk then with your shortening
you're going to do what's called cutting
it into the flour
basically you're using a pastry cutter
or a fork in my case to press the
shortening
into the flour you'll do this just for a
few minutes
until your mixture begins to look sort
of like sand from here
you want to get your milk and vanilla
together and then
pour that into the mixture with your
fork you're going to stir that around
until it starts to come together once
you can't do that anymore
you can begin to take that and put it
onto the counter let me say this
when you add the milk in and you begin
to stir it
may look sort of like it's too dry like
you don't have enough liquid just be
patient
and confident and keep it moving and
trust me it's going to come together
you can see pretty much here as i get it
on to the counter
it does look a little bit crumbly simply
take the dough and press it together to
begin to create your dough ball and from
here
you can either store it in a bowl or you
could put it in
wrap then store that in the fridge until
you're ready to use it
now if you wanted to get this part done
really quickly
there's items sometimes at grocery
stores called
either puff pastry or pastry sheets just
be sure to look at the ingredient list
to make sure that it's vegan this could
in turn be used as a crust instead of
doing it homemade
in order to make things quicker
so here's the fun part we're going to be
making a filling if you tune in to
makeitdairyfree.com
on the website we already have recipes
for cherry
strawberry blueberry and brown sugar
cinnamon pop tarts in this video
i'm going to be showing you how to do
the last two but also
how you can make this nice and quick if
you needed to for the blueberry we're
gonna start getting this going into a
saucepan
for any of the pop-tarts that have fruit
you could use either fresh
or frozen fruit in order to make it
happen now
our blueberries are going to be followed
up by some sugar
lemon juice and water then we're going
to turn the heat up a little bit
in order to bring our mixture to a boil
and from there
as the fruit begins to break down we're
going to use a potato masher to help
move it along we're going to lower the
mixture just a bit
but still allow it to boil we're going
to reduce it for
about eight to about 10 minutes
while we have that going we're going to
get our cornstarch
and water into a mixture together and
when you're ready you want to remove the
pan from the heat and add your water
and cornstarch mixture but you want to
stir consistently
as you do so the mixture will begin to
get thick really quickly and just like
that you're done
from here now just remove everything
from the pot
put it in a separate bowl or something
like that and allow it to cool
before adding it into your pop tarts so
the brown sugar one
is honestly my fave because it is the
easiest and quickest one to knock out
literally you're just taking
four ingredients and you're just adding
them into each other
and then from there you just mix it
together
once it's combined boom you're done this
thing is so
simple but so tasty
the dough recipe we used is to make
eight total pop tarts what i like to do
when rolling it out
i rather split the dough in half because
it's just it's just more manageable for
me personally before putting the dough
down you want to make sure your surface
is floured
but i also like to use either parchment
paper
or wax paper as a layer just in between
the counter and the dough once i get the
dough down
a little bit more flour i push it down a
bit
just so it's stable and not a round
circle anymore
and then i add one more sheet of either
parchment paper or wax paper above
carefully take your time and roll the
dough out you want it to measure
i would say about an eighth of an inch
thickness but when i'm doing this
i am less concerned with the thickness
of it
and more concerned with the length and
the width of the dough you're looking to
get a good
nine by 12. grab your ruler your
daughter's ruler
okay okay so there's a story behind this
ruler just
this isn't the time for it but you know
what i could i could kind of feel you
judging me here so
i'm gonna make some time for this ruler
measure the dough and make cuts
to the dimensions you need then on your
longest side
which should be the 12 inch side make
cuts
three inches apart should have made a
total of three cuts
which now makes four separate pieces of
dough
all right so from here we're going to
brush a little milk on the pastry
just to allow it to become more adherent
when we want to put it together add the
filling of your choice
about an inch or so from the bottom of
the pastry just like you see here
but also make sure it's in the middle
fold the pastry over
from the top now connecting to the
bottom
then use a fork to easily crimp
each of the sides i made mention before
there's a way you can speed up this
entire process
of making the filling so on one of the
pop-tarts like i showed here
i actually used a strawberry jam you
could do this
or use a preserve in this portion of it
in order to speed up the process
entirely when complete you're gonna
brush the outside of the pop-tart
with a little more vegan milk then
you're gonna bring it right to the oven
so this part is easy each icing you make
is
literally the same ingredient and maybe
just
one small twist in between each one all
you're doing is getting powdered sugar
vegan milk or water and vanilla extract
into a bowl simply whisk that together
if making the cinnamon one
you would add cinnamon here as well one
tip i have here
is to use the least amount of milk as
possible
in your mixture i usually end up between
a tablespoon
or two at its max the mixture
is gonna look really thick as you mix it
together
but that's a good thing because when you
get it onto the pop tarts you don't want
it
running everywhere or soaking too much
into it and just looking like a glaze
having it thick allows it to slow down
and it will seize up
really good in a very organic shape on
top of the pop tart
once your pop tart is cooled down this
is where you want to start to add your
icing
carefully layer the icing on top of the
pop tart
spread it out and make whatever organic
shape you like
from here allow it to dry just a little
bit
maybe about a minute or two and then
you're gonna add some sprinkles
right on top this will add just a little
bit more flare
to the pop tart and have it resemble
kind of the ones that are original
the sprinkle ideas i use are either
dried fruit
or i crush up some cereal that we have
all right fam
i hope you guys have a lot of fun with
this one don't forget to make it and
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besties and always
believe in good peace
Girls voice: hey daddy what's wrong
Andrew: nothing just uh wish chadwick could have
had one of these pop-tarts
2nd girl voice: me too dad
