hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make these
dr. pepper pop-tarts now these are absolutely delicious and since so many
of you have been asking for dr. pepper recipes I figured why not so keep
watching and I'll show you step by step how to make these now the first thing we
needed to do is start off with our pie crust I'm using this pre-made pie crust
you can make your own pie crust if you'd like it's just an extra step I'm going
the easier route now it says to leave these out they come - to a package two
of these it says to leave it out for about 15 minutes to let it adjust to the
room temperature and I've already done that so now I'm just gonna take it out
of its package and you can just roll it out and because it's a pie crust it
comes round but we're gonna want to make these square and to do that what I've
done was I've cut a piece of cardboard that's a three inch by five inch and we
just want to start from one end make sure we have enough
and I'm going to use a pizza cutter to cut this it doesn't have to be exact but
it'll help if we have the guide so that gives us four equal pieces here and all
these scraps you're just going to ball them up and we're gonna roll them out
and cut them into two more pieces and
when you're rolling them out just roll it out to the same thickness as your
other crust now once you have all your portions cut to size next step is we're
gonna take in a small bowl one large egg and to that we're going to add about a
teaspoon of milk you can also use water but I'm using milk and we just want to
beat this egg up so this is our egg wash we're gonna brush it on each one of our
cutouts so here we go just cover it completely now what we're
going to do is take our dr. pepper jelly and if you want to know how to make that
dr. pepper jelly I did it in a past video and I'll leave a little card above
and as well as a link to that video below that way you can see how to make
your own homemade dr. pepper jelly now we're just gonna take this dr. pepper
jelly and we're take about the teaspoon and a half or so and we're going to
stick it right on the middle of each of these
panels or whatever you want to call them and we can probably do about two
tablespoons I would say and you want to leave enough room around the edges at
least 1/2 inch or around the edge because we need to seal these so we only
want to do it on three of these now that we got those covered now we're just
going to take our other one and put the egg side and we're gonna flip it right
over on top of it line it up flip it right on top of it egg side underneath
of it and we're going to grab a fork and we're going to use the fork to seal the
edges go around it and if some of it uses out don't worry it happens there we
go so this is one of them and we'll do the rest of them just like we did that
now once you have them all closed in like that next you want to take a
toothpick and we just want to poke a few holes in this just so when they cook
they don't like explode out now go back to your egg wash and we're going to put
it on the top of your pop-tarts now
and when they're covered really good now what guy do this put this in
refrigerator for about ten minutes or so and then we can preheat our oven to 425
degrees we want to get these cold first all right so your pop-tarts were in the
refrigerator while we were preheating our oven now it's been about 10 minutes
in there I'm gonna take them I'm gonna put them in the oven at 425 degrees for
anywhere between 12 and 15 minutes just until they're golden brown okay so let's
check on our pop-tarts see how they're doing in there yep they're coming along
not quite golden brown yet now while our pop-tarts are in the oven baking we can
move on to make our icing goes on top of our pop-tarts and to do that I just have
this medium to small bowl I just have one cup of confectionery sugar or
powdered sugar I might add a teaspoon of clear vanilla extract and about a
tablespoon of dr. pepper but be careful not to add too much dr. pepper or else
you have to add more confectionary sugar or powdered sugar you can always add a
little bit more if you need to but right now just mix this together we do need to
add a little bit more but I'd rather add a little bit to less than a little bit
too much so
it's all in all add about three tablespoons of dr. pepper into this but
you really have to start out small started out with one tablespoon then a
second one until you get this nice icing now this might be a little runny but I'm
gonna let it sit a bit before I put it on my pop-tarts so at this stage I am
going to divide my icing I'm just gonna put a very small amount into a separate
little bowl and the reason why is I'm gonna have two different colors of icing
on top of my pop-tarts I want one of one white which this is really an off-white
because of the dr. pepper kind of made it a different color but that's okay
still be fine I'm gonna set that aside and then I have some Burgundy food
coloring this is just Wilton burgundy gel based food coloring I'm gonna put
that in there because that closely resembles dr. peppers color
now I don't like the color I think it's a little bit too pinkish so I'm going to
add some brown food coloring to this as well hopefully to darken it up a bit but
this is purely optional
now we're just waiting on our pop-tarts all right our pop-tarts are out of the
oven now we're gonna let these cool down even if you want to eat them hot let
them cool down at least five minutes because that jelly inside there is gonna
be piping hot we don't want to burn your tongues our pop-tarts have cooled down
enough so I'm going to top them with our icing so I'm going to take our burgundy
icing and I'm just going to add it right on the top here and you don't have to
put a whole lot cuz it'll spread out now I'm gonna let these cool down and crust
over before I top it with the white frosting so I've let the icing crust
over a little bit so now what I've done is put my white icing and just a ziplock
bag I cut a small hole at the end and this is just really for control but you
could drizzle it with a spoon if you'd like and as always we have to take some
pictures for Instagram and be sure you follow me at fun foods whitey on my
Instagram
and now it's time for the taste test I am going to give this a try here we're
gonna try this one that's already been cut open and see how it tastes
mmm nothing like homemade pop-tarts they're just so good well thanks
everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching you make these dr. pepper
pop-tarts these are a lot of fun to make and they're absolutely delicious so if
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