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Ever wonder how to make Homemade Healthier Pop Tarts? I’ve been dreaming of making a healthier pop tarts recipe for some time now, and we’ve finally got the homemade pop tart recipe just right for you! This homemade pop tart recipe is gluten-free and grain-free, and pairs wonderfully with my homemade chia seed jam. Frost and enjoy!
Homemade Healthier Pop Tarts
Homemade Healthier Pop TartsGrowing up, I absolutely loved pop tarts. S’mores, Strawberry Frosted, and Cherry Frosted were my favorites. I’ve been wanting to make my own paleo version to enjoy, and with much anticipation, they are finally here!
Homemade Pop Tart Recipe
We are in love with this Homemade Healthier Pop Tarts recipe! This pop tart crust is based off of my pie crust recipe. For all the versions we tested, this is my absolute favorite! It takes a little prep work, but then you’ll have pop tarts and you’ll be winning at your weekend brunch or mid-day snack break!
You will LOVE these Healthy Homemade Pop Tarts! You can make the jam filling into any flavor you’d like: strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, etc. They would even be great with my homemade nutella!
Want other breakfast treat recipes? Try these:
Homemade Pop Tarts With Pie Crust
Watch the video:
Homemade Healthier Pop Tarts (Gluten-Free + How-To Video)
Ingredients
1 Batch Lexi’s dough:
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 cup maple sugar
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 large egg
1 Batch Homemade Jam:
- 2 cups fresh organic blueberries strawberries, or fruit of joice
- 2 tablespoons raw honey
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
Glaze:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon cashew milk or almond milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract almond extract
- Optional: Add 1 teaspoon freeze dried strawberry powder to color your glaze.
Instructions
Make dough, chill overnight:
- In a food processor combine almond flour, tapioca flour, cold butter, and sea salt.
- Add in sugar and egg and process until dough combines.
- Transfer dough to refrigerator overnight.
Make jam, chill:
- Add blueberries, honey and lemon juice to a pot and stir until combined.
- Over medium-low heat cook until blueberries are soft and bubbling, about 5 minutes.
- Lightly smash blueberries and reduce heat.
- Add in chia seeds and mix to combine. If you're using raspberries, or a berry with lots of seeds, reduce chia seeds to 1 tablespoon.
- Bring heat back to medium-low and let it simmer, stirring frequently to prevent burning, until jam thickens, about 5 minutes.
- Turn heat off and let cool for 5-10 minutes before transferring to jars.
Roll Dough:
- Between two sheets of parchment, GENTLY roll out dough evenly to 1/8th- ¼th inch thickness. Use knife or pizza cutter to cut rectangles 4” by 2.5”. The dough should yield 12 squares. You may have to reroll scraps to get this many 2 or 3 times.
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Gently place 6 pieces of dough on parchment on sheet pan. Place the remaining 6 on a separate sheet of parchment and stack on top. Place dough in the refrigerator on pan to chill for 30 minutes.
- Place 1 heaping tablespoon of jam in the center of the dough, repeat for 6 total.
- Use a pastry brush to brush water along the edges of the dough. Top each poptart with the remaining dough rectangles. Press your fingers along the edge to seal.
- Use a fork to crimp the edges.
- Bake at 350ºF for 12-15 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Let cool.
To Glaze:
- In a bowl whisk together powdered sugar, milk and extract.
- Dip or drizzle glaze onto the cooled pop tarts.
- Store in the refrigerator for 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months.
Hello,
Can I use regular gluten free flour instead of tapioca & almond? If so, what amount of gf flour?
Thank you,
Peggy Schaaf
Hi Peggy – we haven’t used a 1-1 GF blend in this recipe. It took a lot of testing to perfect it the way we did the tapicoa and almond so we’d certainly encourage you to use that combo!
These are delicious! They turned out so well! So easy to make, too. I did a mix of blueberry and strawberry. So good! Will definitely be making again.
I had a mixed reaction. Perhaps there was some difference to my ingredients or I mixed them incorrectly, but the resulting dough was a thick sticky paste which was impossible to roll between parchment (for me anyway) even cold. I eventually worked in AP flour to the dough till it was able to be shaped and was less sticky, and my resulting pop tarts (3 kind of big ones, not 6 normal ones) baked up well and were tasty. Also I had fewer strawberries (about a cup) and really only was able to generate enough filling for 2 normal sized tarts. Not sure quite what I did wrong, though the result was actually quite good (even if it did dirty most of my dishes pulling it off).
Hi Dave! Sounds like there was a problem with how much of the dry ingredients you added, it sounds like there wasn’t enough! As for the size of your pop tarts, did you measure them out in any way? If measured per our specifications in terms of how thin the dough is rolled out and what size you cut the pop tarts, they should come out correctly. In any event, glad you were able to enjoy the fruits of your labor!
Hi Lexi, I dont have Almond flour. I do have tapioca, oat and AP. Can you recommend what I could use? These look amazing ?
You could use a different dough we put together using oat flour, and then follow the steps of this post for how to work with it. Here is the link: https://lexiscleankitchen.com/oat-flour-pie-crust/
I don’t have a food processor. Can I mix the dough by hand or electric mixer?