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    Pop Tarts


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    posted by cookingmonster to recipe circus

    List of Ingredients





    3/4 cup shortening
    3/4 cup sugar
    3 eggs
    3 3/4 cups flour
    3 teas. baking powder
    1/2 cup fruit preserves

    FROSTING:
    1/2 cup powdered sugar
    1/2 teas. vanilla
    2 Tbls. milk

    Recipe




    Preheat oven to 350F.
    In mixer or food processor, cream shortening and sugar together and then beat in the eggs, one at a time.
    Sift together flour and baking powder and and stir into shortening mixture to make a soft dough. Chill for 1 hr.
    Turn dough out onto a floured surface and roll out 12 rectangles, each 8 x 12 inches. Spread one tablespoon of preserves over half of each rectangle, staying well within the edge of the pastry. Fold pastry dough over the preserves and trim the edges with a pastry wheel or crimp with a fork to close.
    Place tarts on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 20 min. Let cool.
    Mix vanilla, milk, and powdered sugar until you have a thin frosting.
    Dribble frosting on cooled tarts.

 

 

 


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