Gluten Free Pop Tarts

Now I'm not a big PopTart fan, I don't think I ever have been, but I do remember enjoying them when I was up early for horse shows. It was easy to bring that packet along and the sugar rush certainly helped me more that coffee would have. I found one flavor early on and fell in love with it. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Oh my it was oh so good. It was only sold at FredMeyer  and most people had never heard of the flavor. After giving up gluten I very rarely have cravings for things I cannot have or even make gluten free. A good baguette, Tacobell  and these PopTarts come to my mind sometimes, I really wish I could find there gluten free substitute sometime soon. I'm getting close with the Tacobell, but it will take some time to figure out a gluten free crunch wrap that works.

Anyway, yet again while surfing Pinterest I found a recipe for poptarts, I found several actually, but this one I had the ingredients for, also Mr.Beam had been buying himself treats lately and I was feeling jealous so I made them (I'm also trying to get him to eat better, his junk food and juice/pop habit is monstrous).

I had to mix my own flour like normal. I still haven't found the 'right' GF all-purpose mix for me, so I keep trying. The dough was well put together and slightly crumbly like they wanted (hence the cracked edges in the picture)  

While rolling them out the dough was very temperamental and didn't like to stay together if you fussed with it too much. I was loosing patience and only made 4 tarts, 3 filled with strawberry jam and 1 with nutella. I saved the remaining dough so see if it was worth using later.

I'll start off by saying they smelled and tasted delicious. Once they cooled Mr. Beam and I split one, needless to say they crumbled under any pressure. It was like eating good tasting sand, it was just gritty. I thought it was my flours, something I did wrong. I think my flour mix did help it get extremely crumbly but I also think the recipe itself makes for a crumbly Poptart.  I did end up eating all of them (I did say they tasted good) and I loved the nutella one (duh, it's hard not to like nutella) but I was discouraged with the turn out and tossed the rest of the dough, I did not know how to improve the texture of sand. I really hope I can find another recipe, one that works for me, or I'll try again once I have a better All-purpose mix. The recipe it saved as a work in progress.