I was really excited to try the Homemade Poptart idea. It’s been one of those things I’ve long wanted to experiment with.
I used a different crust recipe because I’d already tried the recipe Laura uses and we weren’t big fans of it. So I used my own {yes, I’m a rebel like that! ;)}.
One of my readers had recommended that I put lots of filling on the poptarts because, otherwise, she said they’d be really bland. However, I think I went a little overboard and when I put the tops on, there was jelly spilling out — and it only got worse once I crimped the edges with a fork!
I decided to be more conservative with the jelly the next time around and it worked better.
The end result wasn’t all that pretty — and most of them crumbled when I tried to take them off the baking sheet. They tasted pretty good, but weren’t very sweet at all. If your family is used to storebought poptarts, you’d probably need to drizzle glaze on them to make them sweet enough.
My conclusion on the homemade poptart experiment is that it’s not something our family will be regularly making. They seemed very time-consuming to make and they didn’t wow us at all. In fact, it kind of reminded me of my Homemade Uncrustables experiment.
That said, there is some kind of coolness factor to being able to say that you made homemade poptarts. It seems almost on par with the novelty of making homemade marshmallows. 