Homemade Pop-Tarts

When I was a kid, we ate cereal for breakfast almost every day.  And although I loved cereal, having something else for breakfast, especially on a school day, was a pretty big deal.  Every now and then my siblings and I would whine enough at the grocery store and my mom would buy us a box of Pop-Tarts.  Those toasted pastry crusts with hot fruity filling (because they didn't have all those crazy flavors back then!) where quite a treat back in the day.  Now, not so much.

Maybe my pallet has over-evolved, but a store-bought Pop-Tart just doesn't do anything for me anymore.  They are hard, artificial tasting, and just not very good.  No thanks.  But a homemade version of a Pop-Tart?  Now we're talking.  These are REAL pastry crusts.  That means flaky and buttery, not hard and cardboard-tasting.  And they have REAL filling.  Read the ingredients.  You can actually pronounce them.  Put that filling in between two of pieces of that pastry crust, and you get something that is absolutely fabulous.  Cold cereal has nothing on these babies!