Pop tarts, of the home made variety

It's pouring rain all day today. Not just pouring rain, but the wind has been blowing hard, whipping the rain against my window and making quite a raucous. On day's like today I bake. I headed over to Pinterest to find some ideas. I found this recipe for home made pop tarts. The only problem was that I didn't have the ingredients to make pie crust. And like I said it's pouring rain, and I had no desire to even walk the few steps to the car to drive down to the grocery store. So I put my thinking cap on. What could I use instead of pie crust? Well I have this recipe for Quick Pizza crusts, which is basically a baking powder biscuit recipe. So I made that up and rolled it out as thin as I could. I then used my Pampered Chef Cut and Seal thingy to first cut out some circles and then I filled them with home made strawberry jam and some with Mom's Apple Pie in a Jar. And they turned out pretty good. Not flaky like a pie crust would have been, but sometimes you just have to make do with what you've got.

The Recipe would go something like this...

Pop Tarts...kinda

2 cups flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
1/3 cup oil
2/3 cup milk(or just enough to make dough moist)


Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add milk and oil until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Roll out on a lightly floured surface as thin as you can get it.(I have a pampered chef roller thingy that makes it pretty easy to get it nice and thin). 
You could cut the dough into rectangles or circles. Place a tablespoon of jam in the middle of one circle. Place another circle on top and seal the edges really well. Bake in oven at 425F for about 12-15 minutes.
While they are baking make a glaze with one cup powdered sugar and about a tablespoon of milk and a smidgen of vanilla. Mix together until smooth, it should be the consistency of a thick syrup. 
When the pop tarts are done baking remove them to cooling rack and glaze while still warm.

I was pleased with how they turned out. More importantly, the kids loved them. A perfect warm after school snack for a rainy day.