CHOCOLATE CHERRY POP-TARTS

Happy New Year all! Hopefully 2017 treats you well! Out with the Christmas and in with VALENTINES!! Who doesn’t love Valentines Day? It’s one of the most romantic days of the year and there is just so much love going around that it is hard to not enjoy!

How about skipping the chocolate covered strawberries and roses this year and give that special someone these Chocolate Cherry Pop-Tarts??! I mean the way to a persons heart is through their stomach right? So then these have to make the perfect gift.

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They are absolutely perfect for kids and adults alike. We love making our own homemade Pop-Tarts, throwing it back to when we were younger and lived off the boxed creations. Honestly, now that we make them at home, we’ve come to like them more than our old friends!!

These Chocolate Cherry Pop-Tarts are just the thing you need for Valentines Day! The perfect flavor and they are in the shape of hearts, how fun is that for the little ones. Also, they make that special someone feel loved as well…at least mine did, so that says something!

INGREDIENTS:

2 1/2 cup flour
2 Tbs sugar
1 cup butter, cold and cubed
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cold water

Filling:

Cherry jam
5 Fun sized Hershey’s Bars

Topping:

1 cup powdered sugar
2-3 Tbs milk
Sprinkles

DIRECTIONS:

In food processor add your flour and sugar and pulse to blend. Add in your butter and turn on until combined.
Slowly pour in your water until a dough forms and holds together, do not over mix. More water can be added a little at a time to reach a tacky consistency.
Preheat oven to 400.
Remove dough from food processor and form into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
Once refrigerated, roll dough out onto floured surface to about 1/4″ thickness. Cut hearts out using cookie cutter making sure there are 2 hearts for every 1 Pop-Tart.
Form scraps into ball and roll out again and repeat.
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for full instruction please see : www.tinselbox.com