- What's up everyone,
I'm chef Brie,
also known as breezy Jax,
and today we are here to make
some homemade pop tarts.
Inspired by President Obama's visit to Ted's bulletin in DC
(Camera shots) He ordered a burger
and homemade Pop tarts for dessert.
So that's what we're gonna get busy with today.
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Okay,
so to start for our homemade pop tarts,
we're going to make our filling.
This needs to cool.
So we want to start with this.
So as we make our pastry dough,
it's already chilled out and ready to go.
So to begin,
we're going to make some cornstarch with some water.
This is also known as a cornstarch slurry,
it will help thicken our jam.
So we have a nice thick filling
and we don't have leaking jam from our pop tart filling.
So once this is good,
we'll get it in our pot
add the jam
we want to bring this to a boil.
So i'm going to be on like medium high heat.
Break this apart
and incorporate it.
I can tell this is going to be thick
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Now that we've reached a boil,
we're going to let it stay here in
this state for about two minutes
so we get a nice thick filling and consistency.
We want to constantly stir as it boil
so that nothing sticks and burns at the bottom of your pan.
Our jam is nice and thick.
So we are going to pour it out into our bowl
and move on to making our cinnamon filling.
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Alright,
so our cinnamon filling is so basic and so straightforward.
We're going to mix some flour,
some cinnamon
and some brown sugar.
And just use a whisk and break that up
and all together.
The flour,
just like the cornstarch is going to help bind
this and bring it together as it bakes
in our pastry filling all your frustrations out
with everything happening in politics.
Just beat these little granules of sugar up.
We will set this aside to just relax.
It's already done all the hard work.
And we're gonna move on to making the most fun part of all
the pastry Chris.
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So now we're moving on and we're going
to make our pastry dough
and ,
that requires some flour,
sugar
and salt.
Salt sounds crazy to have in desserts for some people i know
but it really balances the sweetness of the sugar.
If you add the salt in there,
one of the just mix this incorporate all of that
together with a fork.
Once you don't see any sugar granules,
we're going to cut in our butter.
You want nice cold cube butter here
and you can use your hands
but i'm going to use a pastry cutter
and get these nice
and small about the size of a pea
this incorporate all of the butter into the dry.
And now,
we're going to mix our wet ingredients together
so ,
some milk
and an egg.
Make your cool you can do it with one hand.
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Just whisk this together real good.
And using that same fork
or your hands,
incorporate the wet into your dough.
You will reach a point where you will have to go in
with your hands but starting off with a fork is always best
and get in here you really want to work
this dough with your hands
and get it nicely incorporated
so that the dose sticks to itself.
You probably need to knead the dough
for about five minutes max
until it forms a ball
and sticks to itself
and you don't have any dry pockets.
You kind of want to follow the rules of the Wap.
You want to wet as pastry here,
you don't want any dry pastry pockets.
Once we get our dough into a nice ball
and it all sticks together.
We're going to divide this into two,
make a disc
and roll them out.
Working with one half at a time.
We've got some beautiful layers
and they're just going to be delicious.
When a lightly dust our parchment paper
so the dough doesn't stick.
Make a nice little disk again,
working semi quickly so we don't melt too much
of the butter in there because
that's what gives us an RS flaky dough,
kind of put a little bit of flour
on a rolling pin
and get rolling.
We want these to be about an eighth of an inch thick.
That way your pastry dough cooks through all the way
and you don't have any of the filling leaking out.
And,
we're going to cut this
into a 9 by 12 inch rectangle.
Measure down the moon get these sides going.
You do this with both halves of our dough.
So we have our bottom pastry and our top pastry.
Now that we have our big rectangle,
we're going to cut our small rectangles
and get to assembling.
I'm going to go for the halfway mark
And one more time.
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And now we'll move this on
to our sheet tray and start assembling them.
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All right,
so now it's on to the fun part of assembly.
So i have three bottoms for three strawberry fillings.
So before we get to building,
we need to make an egg wash.
So i have an egg
and some milk.
An egg wash is just like food glue
is going to help bind our pastry together,
use a little pastry brush
and just go all the way around the edges.
We're even going to use some of this egg wash
on the top of our pop tarts
to give it a little glow
and a summer color
in nice and brown
into the middle.
We're going to put this nice thick strawberry jam
that we made.
Let's break that up a little bit
and don't fall into each one.
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You want to get in there with your fingers
and spread it around.
It'll also spread as it bakes,
but you want to help it out a little bit.
Next,
we're going to top them off.
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Use your fingers and kind of pinch them
together like you would if you're making pasta just
to seal in that jam.
I like to overlap them make a nice little crimp design.
I can definitely see while making these.
My President Obama just had to have
one for dessert after that burger.
I'm just going to repeat this with all
of them until they're ready to go.
We're going to poke a few holes
in the top and this is also important so that
as it bakes that steam can release out
of the middle of the pastry and bake evenly and nicely.
Last little bit of egg wash
and we will build our cinnamon pop tarts next.
So our last three same steps here just a different feeling.
Just want to egg wash.
The next we're going to do the same thing put a tablespoon
of filling right in the middle.
This is a dry mix,
so you want to be a little careful
when spilling it into the center
so it doesn't go out too far on your edges
as a kid brown sugar was definitely my favorite.
And i'd always put it in the toaster
to get a nice and warm on the inside
for a little extra razzle dazzle before school.
Same thing,
pat it on there
make those crimps
gonna get our little air pockets in there
final egg wash
nice moisturize
WAP
when a nice wet pastry top,
we're going to let these rests in the refrigerator
for about 15 minutes so that butter can chill up again
before going into the oven.
And while those are baking,
we're going to make two different icings
for our two different pop tarts.
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I'm going to make our cinnamon icing first in a bowl
we've got our powdered sugar,
milk,
some vanilla
and,
cinnamon.
Whisk this all together.
I think these treats are perfect for the cold weather
that we kind of had coming up in LA footfall
as i like to call it that we have
these are nice and warm with those cinnamon flavors.
It just tastes like fall.
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So next we've got strawberry icing,
which is just
same ingredients but no cinnamon.
And just like that with butter icing.
So using a tablespoon,
i'm just going to pour it right over the top
and let the icing drizzle all around our pastry.
I cannot wait to bite into these
and get my Obama on
and so real presidential Oregon special treat.
While these were in the oven,
i was doing my part,
researching propositions
and people on the ballot
so i know what i'm going into
when i step into the polling place
because you don't want to be unprepared.
The vote matters.
So,
do your research people.
All right,
the moment has finally arrived.
We are done making our presidential pop tarts.
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Let's get into it.
Wow.
I can't even talk.
A bite into this amazing cinnamon brown sugar filling.
I feel presidential eating this
like i feel so special.
The strawberry is amazing
I got a nice chunk from the strawberry jam
in that first bite
and just had to take a moment
and say thank you
because that was delicious.
I might have to put one of these in my pocket
when i go to the polling place
and,
helped give me low energy
and a boost as i vote
I'm so happy.
If you want to understand how i'm feeling
and feel real presidential at home,
give these a try.
Highly recommended,
10 out of 10.
This was probably the best webcast pastry I have ever had
the pleasure of enjoying.
And i hope you guys enjoy it too
Go rock the boat.
Do all that good stuff.
Make the big man over there proud
and enjoy
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