A Pop Tart Recipe from Disney’s Festival of the Arts

Disney’s Festival of the Arts is here! As part of our Festival of the Arts At Home series, we created the Pop’t Art, which is the Disney Pop Tart Recipe.  This has been at the Festival of the Arts since its inaugural year, and we love that it’s super simple and fun. Better yet, this one is easy to make!

The pop tarts at the Festival of the Arts is a strawberry-filled pop tart, with vanilla icing and usually some sort of abstract design on the outside. It’s pretty simple, but it’s very kid-friendly and really easy to recreate at home. The best part about this copycat recipe is that it’s not only really easy to make, but it only takes a few ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need the Pop’t Art copycat recipe. 

Pop Tart Ingredients

• 1 package or 1 recipe sugar cookie dough
• 1/2 c. strawberry jam
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 1/2 tablespoon water
• 1 c. powdered sugar
• Food Coloring
• 1-2 tbsp milk of choice

You’ll also need a rolling pin and a small saucepan. 

Pop Tart Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper
3. On floured surface, roll out dough thinly
4. Using template or cookie cutter, cut dough into rectangles or desired shape
5. Take half of cut outs and place on baking sheet
6. Prepare Jam mixture by heating jam on medium heat
7. Mix cornstarch and water and set aside
8. Once jam has started to thin, add cornstarch mixture and allow jam to come to slow boil
9. Remove from heat.
10. Let jam cool slightly and spread onto bottoms of poptart
11. Poke holes in remaining dough shapes and place on top
12. Using fork, crimp edges and secure poptart together
13. Place in oven for 10-15 mins or until slightly golden
14. Once poptarts have cooled, mix together powdered sugar to desired consistency to make icing
15. Spread thin layer of icing on poptart and let dry
16. Mix remaining icing with desired colors and either using a spoon or piping bag, drizzle over top
17. Enjoy!

Roll out the cookie dough, slightly thinner than you normally would.  Then cut the dough in pairs, one for the top and one for the bottom. You’ll want to poke holes on the tops. You can use whatever shape you want here using a cookie cutter or just using a knife. I stuck with a standard 6″ x 4″ rectangle because I wanted to keep the look true to the Festival of the Arts cookie. 

Make the jam mixture, spread evenly onto bottoms. Cover with tops, crimp edges, and bake! Once they come out of the oven, let them cool and decorate. We decided to try to match the “artistic” decoration on the top and chose a few colors that match this year’s color scheme. You can always decorate them however you want or even use a different type of icing if you prefer. 

These are super easy and if you’re not a fan of the sugar cookie base, we’ve also used pie crust before using the same method.  The pie crust will give you a flakier, more “pop tart” taste, whereas the Cookie base is more true to the Festival of the Arts version. Either way we hope you love this recipe.