- Hello everyone, it's Barry here.
Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen.
I hope you are well.
Today we are making another mini food.
Mini food, basically scaled down,
like the opposite of giant food as well.
Foods the size of your tears.
If you missed any others to date,
I think there's about 25 of them so far.
There's a link to a playlist up here and down below.
And also one of the most recent ones we did,
the mini cooked breakfast is on there,
so perhaps after watching this one and you enjoy it,
head on over, grab the popcorn and check out
the rest of the playlist.
But today, we're making mini pop tarts.
Let's give it a go.
As usual, the rules are very simple.
By the end of the video, hopefully, the mini food
should fit on this fake Winnie the Pooh plate.
It normally does, it works out quite well.
As usual, it's not rehearsed in any way.
We're just going to go realtime.
Few little tools we've got today.
My little hamper full of mini food goodies
and some sort of tools in that.
I think we're ready to go.
We need some short crust pastry.
So this is a very small square of a ready made short crust
pastry, so you can buy those sheets in the stores.
But it's a little too thick at the moment,
so we're going to use our mini rolling pin
just to get it a teeny bit thinner.
It's still needs to be quite thick
to hold our jam inside.
I feel like I should have floured that surface
just a little bit, there we go.
Also, this is moving too much, so I've got
a little bit of damp kitchen towel there.
That should help it a little bit.
First, let's just roll that a teeny bit more again.
There we go, alright.
Just tidying this up a little bit.
Because what I'm going to try and do
is cut one long strip that will hopefully create two halves.
Straight down here like so using my scalpel knife.
Alright so I'm just going to roll that out a teeny bit more.
Okay, nice.
And I think if I double that over on itself roughly,
that is about a pop tart shape.
So I'm going to use this line here.
A nice little crease line.
Doot-doo doot-doo doo.
Okay, so we've now got two relatively even sized halves
that we're going to bring together.
So on this slightly smaller Winnie the Pooh plate right here
that would really start pushing the boundaries,
is some strawberry jam.
I don't know what this tool is from my
sort of pedicure set.
Whoa, that's going to be too much.
I'm taking really small amounts.
I just want a little bit.
I'm going to splodge it in the middle
because we don't want it bursting
out the sides of our pop tart.
There we go, I'm happy with that.
And to be honest, if that does burst out the sides,
I don't think that's going to be the end of the world.
So now, what we need to try and do
is I'm just going to make this a teeny bit bigger.
The other half, its big brother.
We're going to get it on top like so.
Trying to join the sides up the best we can.
There we go, nice.
And then this tool, which I think I'm going use
to help with my icing sugar in a bit as well.
I'm just going to try and
just seal the edges.
Dare I say it, that's starting to look pretty cool.
Nice, you see that?
It looks pretty good and pop tarts do tend to
before they go in the oven get little piercings
so I'm going to use this bamboo skewer.
Ya, that is a standard piercing, and not like
getting your ear pierced or nose pierced.
So it's just to hopefully steam it.
Just going to do four dots on it like so.
Let's get this in the oven.
Normally, they'd go in the oven for about 8 to 10 minutes,
but I think we going to do like 30 seconds.
Now, unfortunately, I don't have a mini baking tray.
Well, one that's not a toy one anyway.
So we will just use a standard one
and then if we just scoop this,
doot-doo doo doo doo.
Right on there like so.
Yes, I might over egg washing it.
But at the same time, I think it will be just fine.
Alright, so in it goes.
I genuinely have no idea how long that's going to take.
So I'm going to keep my eye on it.
I'm going to say maybe two minutes.
I'll let you know.
So that gives me one minute to quickly try and
make some icing for our pop tart.
So I've got some icing sugar in my tea cup.
If I was feeling fancy I could have sift it in as well.
And then in my tea pot, just some H20.
So, mixy-mix that together.
And I keep adding icing sugar until I get
a nice, thick paste.
As it turns out, I need a lot more icing sugar.
I've just checked on the pop tart.
I've got a few more minutes.
It's all coming together.
I've got the icing at the consistency I'm after.
And the pop tart's actually in the oven
for nearly the same amount of time
as a standard sized one.
I didn't really think that would be the case
but let's get it out.
There we go folks.
Straight from the oven, that is our pop tart.
Let's finish it off.
So I'm going to get some of our icing
and just spoon it over the centre.
There we go, and for the finishing touch,
here is a plate of hundreds and thousands,
which I did actually knock over a minute ago,
then if there's any randomly on the counter.
I've got some tweezers and I'm going to do
the painstaking job of placing
coloured balls of sugar, ahhh, if they want to go in
to the top of our pop tart.
Good thing about using the tweezers is I can actually
pick each colour that I want to stick on here.
(laughs)
And, hey, presto, if I take this plate out of the way,
I believe our pop tart is all done.
Let's get some for scale.
So there's our Winnie the Pooh plate.
Our pop tart sits in like so.
Amazing.
Could have gone a bit bigger, actually.
And for reference, the satsuma.
Just a tiny little orange that is like
overshadowing our mini pop tart.
Let's see what it tastes like.
I'm so excited for this one.
None of the jam escaped either.
Best give it a try.
Ahhh, just like the real thing.
So there was are folks.
Another mini food in the bag.
Don't forget to check out the playlist
of the other mini foods
and also let me know down below
any other mini foods attempts
you want to see next.
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and food fun, and I'll see you
very soon I think.
Bye.