Santa Pop-Tarts (Cranberry Pear Jam)
Popping into your Friday with these Santa Pop-Tarts 🎅🏻🎄 Cranberry Pear Jam Pop-Tart Ingredients: * 1 box frozen puff pastry * 1 egg white * 1½ cups fresh cranberries * 1 pear * ¼ cup water * ½ cup brown sugar *You can use store bought jam, any flavor desired Tools: * Heart shake cookie cutter Decorations: * Candy Eyeballs * Cherry sours or you can use extra cranberries for Santa noses * Mini Marshmallows * Shredded coconut * Vanilla glaze (1 cup powder sugar, 6 tablespoons of milk, mix together) * Red decorating icing Instructions: * Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. * If you are making your homemade jam like us, in a medium saucepan, combine the cranberries, diced pears, water, and brown sugar. Bring ingredients to a boil, boil for 5 minutes on medium heat or until cranberries and pears have started to break down. Place in the refrigerator to cool. * While jam cools place your pastry puff sheets onto a parchment paper cookie sheet and cut our heart shape dough. Each heart should have a friend to go on top (watch video). * Take jam out of refrigerator and put a small spoonful in middle of the hearts and then place heart shape friend on top and crimp the edges together with a fork. Repeat till all your heart shapes are filled and covered. * Brush egg white on top of heart and make 3 mini slits on top of heart with a knife. * Bake for 20-25 minutes till lightly brown. At 15 minutes your hearts will start to puff up. We press them down in the oven to flatten them a bit. * Take out of oven to cool for 15 minutes before decorating. * Put heart pop tarts on cooling rack upside down so the top of the heart is flat! These hearts about to become you Santa pop-tarts! Watch video on how to decorate. Enjoy! #poptart #poptarts #cranberries #pear #jam #jelly #pastrypuff #christmasbaking #holidaycheer #santa #santatellme #ariannagrande #christmasmusic #cranberry #christmasrecipes #friday #tgif #quickrecipes #yummm
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. If you are making your homemade jam like us, in a medium saucepan, combine the cranberries, diced pears, water, and brown sugar. Bring ingredients to a boil, boil for 5 minutes on medium heat or until cranberries and pears have started to break down. Place in the refrigerator to cool. While jam cools place your pastry puff sheets onto a parchment paper cookie sheet and cut out heart shape dough. Each heart should have a friend to go on top. Take jam out of refrigerator and put a small spoonful in middle of the hearts and then place heart shape friend on top and crimp the edges together with a fork. Repeat till all your heart shapes are filled and covered. Brush egg white on top of heart and make 3 mini slits on top of heart with a knife. Bake for 20-25 minutes till lightly brown. At 15 minutes your hearts will start to puff up. Press them down in the oven to flatten them a bit. Take out of oven to cool for 15 minutes before decorating. To make the vanilla glaze, combine 1 cup powdered sugar and 6 tablespoons of milk, mix together. Put heart pop tarts on cooling rack upside down so the top of the heart is flat! These hearts are about to become your Santa pop-tarts! Enjoy!View original recipe