I'm chef Brie,

also known as breezy Jax,

and today we are here to make

some homemade pop tarts.

Inspired by President Obama's visit to Ted's bulletin in DC

(Camera shots) He ordered a burger

and homemade Pop tarts for dessert.

So that's what we're gonna get busy with today.

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Okay,

so to start for our homemade pop tarts,

we're going to make our filling.

This needs to cool.

So we want to start with this.

So as we make our pastry dough,

it's already chilled out and ready to go.

So to begin,

we're going to make some cornstarch with some water.

This is also known as a cornstarch slurry,

it will help thicken our jam.

So we have a nice thick filling

and we don't have leaking jam from our pop tart filling.

So once this is good,

we'll get it in our pot

add the jam

we want to bring this to a boil.

So i'm going to be on like medium high heat.

Break this apart

and incorporate it.

I can tell this is going to be thick

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Now that we've reached a boil,

we're going to let it stay here in

this state for about two minutes

so we get a nice thick filling and consistency.

We want to constantly stir as it boil

so that nothing sticks and burns at the bottom of your pan.

Our jam is nice and thick.

So we are going to pour it out into our bowl

and move on to making our cinnamon filling.

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Alright,

so our cinnamon filling is so basic and so straightforward.

We're going to mix some flour,

some cinnamon

and some brown sugar.

And just use a whisk and break that up

and all together.

The flour,

just like the cornstarch is going to help bind

this and bring it together as it bakes

in our pastry filling all your frustrations out

with everything happening in politics.

Just beat these little granules of sugar up.

We will set this aside to just relax.

It's already done all the hard work.

And we're gonna move on to making the most fun part of all

the pastry Chris.

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So now we're moving on and we're going

to make our pastry dough

and ,

that requires some flour,

sugar

and salt.

Salt sounds crazy to have in desserts for some people i know

but it really balances the sweetness of the sugar.

If you add the salt in there,

one of the just mix this incorporate all of that

together with a fork.

Once you don't see any sugar granules,

we're going to cut in our butter.

You want nice cold cube butter here

and you can use your hands

but i'm going to use a pastry cutter

and get these nice

and small about the size of a pea

this incorporate all of the butter into the dry.

And now,

we're going to mix our wet ingredients together

so ,

some milk

and an egg.

Make your cool you can do it with one hand.

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Just whisk this together real good.

And using that same fork

or your hands,

incorporate the wet into your dough.

You will reach a point where you will have to go in

with your hands but starting off with a fork is always best

and get in here you really want to work

this dough with your hands

and get it nicely incorporated

so that the dose sticks to itself.

You probably need to knead the dough

for about five minutes max

until it forms a ball

and sticks to itself

and you don't have any dry pockets.

You kind of want to follow the rules of the Wap.

You want to wet as pastry here,

you don't want any dry pastry pockets.

Once we get our dough into a nice ball

and it all sticks together.

We're going to divide this into two,

make a disc

and roll them out.

Working with one half at a time.

We've got some beautiful layers

and they're just going to be delicious.

When a lightly dust our parchment paper

so the dough doesn't stick.

Make a nice little disk again,

working semi quickly so we don't melt too much

of the butter in there because

that's what gives us an RS flaky dough,

kind of put a little bit of flour

on a rolling pin

and get rolling.

We want these to be about an eighth of an inch thick.

That way your pastry dough cooks through all the way

and you don't have any of the filling leaking out.

And,

we're going to cut this

into a 9 by 12 inch rectangle.

Measure down the moon get these sides going.

You do this with both halves of our dough.

So we have our bottom pastry and our top pastry.

Now that we have our big rectangle,

we're going to cut our small rectangles

and get to assembling.

I'm going to go for the halfway mark

And one more time.

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And now we'll move this on

to our sheet tray and start assembling them.

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All right,

so now it's on to the fun part of assembly.

So i have three bottoms for three strawberry fillings.

So before we get to building,

we need to make an egg wash.

So i have an egg

and some milk.

An egg wash is just like food glue

is going to help bind our pastry together,

use a little pastry brush

and just go all the way around the edges.

We're even going to use some of this egg wash

on the top of our pop tarts

to give it a little glow

and a summer color

in nice and brown

into the middle.

We're going to put this nice thick strawberry jam

that we made.

Let's break that up a little bit

and don't fall into each one.

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You want to get in there with your fingers

and spread it around.

It'll also spread as it bakes,

but you want to help it out a little bit.

Next,

we're going to top them off.

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Use your fingers and kind of pinch them

together like you would if you're making pasta just

to seal in that jam.

I like to overlap them make a nice little crimp design.

I can definitely see while making these.

My President Obama just had to have

one for dessert after that burger.

I'm just going to repeat this with all

of them until they're ready to go.

We're going to poke a few holes

in the top and this is also important so that

as it bakes that steam can release out

of the middle of the pastry and bake evenly and nicely.

Last little bit of egg wash

and we will build our cinnamon pop tarts next.

So our last three same steps here just a different feeling.

Just want to egg wash.

The next we're going to do the same thing put a tablespoon

of filling right in the middle.

This is a dry mix,

so you want to be a little careful

when spilling it into the center

so it doesn't go out too far on your edges

as a kid brown sugar was definitely my favorite.

And i'd always put it in the toaster

to get a nice and warm on the inside

for a little extra razzle dazzle before school.

Same thing,

pat it on there

make those crimps

gonna get our little air pockets in there

final egg wash

nice moisturize

WAP

when a nice wet pastry top,

we're going to let these rests in the refrigerator

for about 15 minutes so that butter can chill up again

before going into the oven.

And while those are baking,

we're going to make two different icings

for our two different pop tarts.

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I'm going to make our cinnamon icing first in a bowl

we've got our powdered sugar,

milk,

some vanilla

and,

cinnamon.

Whisk this all together.

I think these treats are perfect for the cold weather

that we kind of had coming up in LA footfall

as i like to call it that we have

these are nice and warm with those cinnamon flavors.

It just tastes like fall.

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So next we've got strawberry icing,

which is just

same ingredients but no cinnamon.

And just like that with butter icing.

So using a tablespoon,

i'm just going to pour it right over the top

and let the icing drizzle all around our pastry.

I cannot wait to bite into these

and get my Obama on

and so real presidential Oregon special treat.

While these were in the oven,

i was doing my part,

researching propositions

and people on the ballot

so i know what i'm going into

when i step into the polling place

because you don't want to be unprepared.

The vote matters.

So,

do your research people.

All right,

the moment has finally arrived.

We are done making our presidential pop tarts.

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Let's get into it.

Wow.

I can't even talk.

A bite into this amazing cinnamon brown sugar filling.

I feel presidential eating this

like i feel so special.

The strawberry is amazing

I got a nice chunk from the strawberry jam

in that first bite

and just had to take a moment

and say thank you

because that was delicious.

I might have to put one of these in my pocket

when i go to the polling place

and,

helped give me low energy

and a boost as i vote

I'm so happy.

If you want to understand how i'm feeling

and feel real presidential at home,

give these a try.

Highly recommended,

10 out of 10.