Homemade Peach Pop Tarts

April 05, 2025

Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos. Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying. My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again. For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...

I wanted to take my mind off all the rain we've been getting and bake something fun. January can be a long and wet month. So, some projects in the kitchen are just the ticket. I grew up eating Pop Tarts sometimes for breakfast. But they were always just kind of okay. A few years ago, I began seeing bakeries making them, and they always looked delicious. I decided to look online for some Pop Tart recipes so I could make some, too. I found one at allrecipes.com and then I bought the ingredients. I decided to use peach jam for my filling, but you can use any kind of filling you want.

The Pop Tarts were really fun to make! The recipe I used called for refrigerated pie dough, so it was pretty simple. These tasted more like hand pies than pop tarts, they just looked similar. To make my frosting, I followed the recipe, but instead of food coloring, I used two tablespoons of peach jam.

The recipe I used is from Allrecipes.com and can be found here.