Apple Pie Pop Tarts

Mediterra Café is famous for its bread and baked goods, like these Apple Pie Pop Tarts. We are very lucky that the café is sharing a delectable recipe with TABLE readers! Special thanks to the Ambeliotis family for this…and for all the fine breakfasts they serve every day at their locations in Sewickley, Mount Lebanon, Seven Fields, and Lawrenceville.

Craving more breakfast recipes to add to the table? Try our Portuguese Fried Eggs with Grilled Halloumi and our Everything Bagel Tomato Tartlets.

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Homemade apple pie "pop-tarts" arranged in two rows on a textured baking sheet.

Apple Pie Pop Tarts


  • Author: Mediterra Café

Description

Skip the store-bought Pop Tarts, these homemade Apple Pie ones taste so much better. 


Ingredients

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For the pie dough:

  • 1 tsp salt
  • ⅔ cup water, very cold
  • 3 cups + 2 tbsp flour (we use King Arthur flour)
  • 1 cup + 5 tbsp, unsalted butter, cold

For the filling:

  • Water
  • 2​ lemons
  • 4 Granny Smith apples
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1  1/3 cup light brown sugar, tightly packed
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt​

For the brown butter icing:

  • 1 stick of unsalted butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 to 4 tbsp milk

For the pie-crumb topping:

  • 3 cups flour
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 16 tbsp butter​ melted, 2 sticks​
  • 3 tbsp water


Recipe by Mediterra Café
Styling by Keith Recker
Photography by Jill Farrar

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