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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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