avocado "pop tart"

Bottom image: Inside filling of my Avocado "Pop Tart"


     I'm surprised that it's 2015 and there still isn't an Avocado-flavored Pop Tart. Avocados are all the rage these days in the foodie world. So I decided to create my version of what an Avocado Pop Tart. The best way to make the crust isn't actually making any crust at all- it's using refrigerated store-bought pie crust. I put the word "refrigerated" in bold because I naively thought the store-bought pie crust that is usually sold in the baking aisle would work. Then I realized it breaks apart easily because it's already cooked. You literally could eat the pie crust, but then that would be a tad weird- and boring to just eat crust.

I wanted to make this recipe so bad that I made my own pastry- I had all the necessary ingredients on hand- flour, butter, sugar, salt, milk, eggs.

By the way, I put quotation marks around the words "pop tart" because as you can see from the picture above, it doesn't look like a traditional pop tart. But if you see the bottom image, it has filling in it, albeit the pastry is pretty thick to be considered a "pop tart".

You will need:

For the cooking vessels:

1 medium bowl
2 small bowls
Parchment paper
Baking sheet or cookie tray
Nonstick cooking spray

For the pastry:

2 cups of all purpose flour
1 tbsp. of granulated sugar
1 cup of butter
1/2 tsp of salt
2 tbsp. of milk
1 egg, beaten

1 egg to brush on the pastry

For the paste(filling):

1 1/2 tbsp. of lemon juice
1 tbsp. of granulated sugar
1 avocado, mashed

For the icing:

1 cup of granulated sugar
1 tbsp. of milk
1 tsp. of vanilla extract
2 drops of green food coloring
Sprinkles

For the pastry:

1.  Put first 4 pastry ingredients in a medium bowl and whisk the ingredients together.
2. Work the butter into the dough using your hands until there are only pea-sized butter pieces.
3 Put the last 2 pastry ingredients in a small bowl and whisk them together.
4. Add contents of small bowl to the dough in the medium bowl.
5. Whisk the contents in a bowl using a large spoon or your hands.
6. Put the dough on a floured surface.
7. Shape the dough into a rectangle.
8. Slightly flatten the dough using either rolling pin, a beer bottle, or your hands.
9. Cut the dough into 4 smaller rectangular pieces.
10. Beat and whisk another egg.
11. Brush the whisked egg onto 2 of the 4 rectangles using a pastry brush or the back of a spoon. This will ensure the pop tart rectangles stick together.

For the filling(paste):

1. Add all filling ingredients into a medium bowl(I used the same medium bowl I used in the making of the pastry after washing the bowl out).
2. Mix the filling ingredients together.

For the rest of the pop tart:

1. Place avocado paste onto the two rectangles coated with egg.
2. Put the other 2 rectangles on top of the rectangles with avocado paste that was just placed.
3. Crimp the edges using the back of a fork. Make sure no filling is visible.
4. Bake in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for 20-25 minutes.
5. After baking the pop tarts, let them rest for 5 minutes.
6. To make the icing, add first 4 icing ingredients in a medium bowl(I used the same bowl I used for the making of the pastry and filling after washing the bowl out).
7. Mix the ingredients together until you get a green icing.
8. Pour the icing on top of the pop tarts.
9. Sprinkle the pop tarts with sprinkles(I only had German Chocolate Cake sprinkles(don't ask why) so I used those).
10. Let the pop tarts rest for another 5 minutes so the icing hardens onto the pastry.
11. Bon appetit!