Pop tarts

Preparation time: 40 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

These are a breakfast food. You bake them in the oven, let them cool, ice them then you can warm them again or eat them cold. Yum!

Ingredients
250g plain flour
2 tbsp golden caster sugar
1 tsp salt
200g cold butter
1 egg plus extra for brushing
1 tbsp milk
225g strawberry jam
1 tbsp cornflour
200g icing sugar
Pink or red food colouring
Sugar strands
Optional: Ready made strawberry sauce

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C and line 2-3 baking trays with greaseproof paper. To make the dough, mix the flour, sugar and salt in bowl, then rub in the butter with your fingers to make breadcrumbs. Mix in the egg and a tablespoon of milk until the dough forms. Add a little  it more milk if the dough is too dry.

2. In a little saucepan, heat the jam and cornflour over a low heat until combined and melted, like a sauce. Set aside to cool slightly. Roll out the dough to 3mm thick. Cut the dough into 8cm X 14cm rectangles. You should get about 8-12 rectangles.

3. Lay out 6 rectangles on the baking trays and add a teaspoon or two of the jam filling to each rectangle, leaving about 1cm around the edge. Brush the edges with egg and lay the plain pastry on top. Use a fork to pres down the edges and poke holes on top. Repeat this process for every tart until completed. Brush each tart with egg and bake for 20 minutes or until golden.

4. When baked transfer to wire rack to cool before decorating. When the tarts are cool it's time to make the look pretty. To decorate add a drop of water to your icing and mix well. You don't want the icing runny as you need the icing to stay on the tart. You want thick icing. When you have reached thick icing, add a tiny drop of red or pink food colouring and stir in. You should now how thick pink icing.

5. Spread a layer of icing over each tart and sprinkle with sugar strands. You can also add ready made strawberry sauce on top if your feeling sweet.

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