Modest Monday - Toaster Pastry

submitted about 9 years ago by VurveVurve with the Swurve

Hello everyone!

Long time, no see.

Today, I wanted to give you all a base for one of my favorite childhood snacks. Toaster Pastries aka Pop-tarts.

I love the versatility of this recipe. You can do chocolate, caramel, any fruit you want, etc, while still fulfilling that craving for a nice pastry or bakery vape.

It's also very simple. You only need about 4 flavors, but can add more to suit your preferences.

Toaster Pastry|% ---|--- TFA Pie Crust|2 TFA Vanilla Cupcake|1 FA Meringue|0.5 INW Shisha Strawberry|1

Fairly straight forward here. The first three ingredients on this list are your base. Shisha Strawberry is the alternate flavor that can be changed around with anything.

TFA Pie Crust - This flavor is very accurate to its name. It tastes like unsweetened, crumbly crust. Similar to the pre-made pie shells you can buy at the grocery store, or, you guessed it, pop-tart crust! Very dry on the inhale and exhale.

TFA Vanilla Cupcake - One of my new favorite flavors. It's mostly super sweet like buttercream frosting, but it still has a slight fluffy cake quality to it. Useful in creams and bakery items. Here we are using it as the sugar glaze that goes into the Pop-tart. The ever so slight fluffiness also helps lift up the pie crust so it's not so bitter and dry.

FA Meringue - I'm not even sure it bears worth repeating at this point, but it's powdered sugar. It adds a little extra sweetness to our sugar filled pastry item. An ever so slight amount of cream to help further smooth out the crust and make it more Pop-tart like.

The Last Ingredient(s) - As I mentioned, literally anything you want it to be. There are a million different toaster pastry flavors. Strawberry, blueberry, chocolate, and it goes on. You could even do lemon rhubarb if that tickles your fancy.

Secret Ingredient - If you want a warmth to your pastry to make it taste like it just popped out of the toaster, add about 0.5% TFA Kentucky Bourbon.

That's it all!

Have fun with this recipe frame and go nuts. Let me know what your favorite version is.

Be sure to catch /u/matthewkocanda and myself on the Beginner Blending podcast tonight in www.mixlr.com/inthemix-podcast at around 9:15 est.

Comments

8 points

by ajsam3about 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Are you saying that the bourbon can be used kind of like the opposite of small dosages of koolada? Instead of imparting the "chilled" sensation is adds a toasted one? If so, that is genius and I thank you for it.

4 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

Precisely!

It has virtually no alcoholic taste to it. It's all warmth

1 points

by ajsam3about 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I only ever used it in skiddlz bangin bourbon a while back and that makes total sense. I bet it would go well in tobacco recipes too.

7 points

by FuNiOnZabout 9 years ago

Hmmm now just to figure out how to do a brown sugar cinnamon poptart...

3 points

by HashSlingingSlashurabout 9 years ago

Add 1-2% tfa brown sugar extra .3-.5% flv rich cinnamon My first guess.

Don't have pie crust right now or I'd try it for myself

Edit: % not ℅

1 points

by QueenAnneVapesabout 9 years ago

You had to mention one of my favorite childhood treats.

The brown sugar and rich cinnamon would definitely work. How about Fried Dough FLV instead of pie crust? And what about the chocolate icing undertones?

3 points

by wafflepriest1about 9 years ago

Awh man, I missed being insulted multiple times a la cokecan's style. Haha just messing, on a separate note - how does the base only call for three flavors and I'm missing two of them? Looking forward to BB tonight, catch everyone then!

3 points

by tranceinateabout 9 years agoIn a good mood for now - don't piss me off.

TFA Pie Crust & Brown Sugar contain Furfuryl Alcohol, a known respiratory irritant that makes people sensitive to it cough, btw.

2 points

by jdrocker77about 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I'm going to give this shot. Maybe play around with some other fruits

Thanks for sharing!

2 points

by noodles1972about 9 years ago

Interestingly simple. I'm gonna mix up a couple of different versions of this with some jammy fruit flavours. Thanks.

2 points

by TechnicolorRainbowsabout 9 years ago

I use the same percentages but instead of Vanilla Cupcake, I use Cream Cheese Icing by LA at 1.5%

2 points

by vapaioloabout 9 years ago

Well done. So glad you mentioned TFA Kentucky Bourbon to be used this way. I've suggested it multiple times and people seem to shy away from it because they don't like "alcohol flavors". But at low %'s, it really adds that "baked" note to bakery flavors. They should change the name to "TFA Baked". And it's awesome in banana recipes.

Ok, now s'mores pop-tarts...

1 points

by mlNikonabout 9 years ago

is this flavor comparable to liquid amber?

2 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

Not really at all.

TFA Kentucky Bourbon lends itself to a dark warmth, like taking a shot of whiskey.

FA Liquid Amber makes fruits jammy and blended, like pie filling.

1 points

by vapaioloabout 9 years ago

My experience with Amber is a bit limited, so maybe someone with more experience can chime in, but I'd say it can be used in much the same way (in low %'s as an accent to transform fruits into something a bit more complex and less "artificial" and "candy-like"), but I wouldn't say they share the same properties/flavor notes.

2 points

by KG3Dalmost 9 years ago

Mixed this up w/ .8% Chocolate Fudge Brownie V2 CAP. I think it tastes pretty close to a fudge poptart. (Steeped for 1 week) Im going to try adding Kentucky Bourbon next iteration. Thank you for this recipe.

1 points

by Cynicatedabout 9 years ago

I love blueberry pop tarts. Sort of my guilty pleasure. What blueberry do you think would most accurately mimic the pop tart blueberry filling?

2 points

by Kerg1about 9 years ago

I've been trying to perfect a blueberry poptart for a while but couldn't quite get an accurate pop tart pastry. I feel happy with my blue berry filling, for which I use: 0.5% fa bilberry 0.8% cap blueberry jam

Hope that helps!

And thanks vurve for the post!

1 points

by Cynicatedabout 9 years ago

Awesome. That looks interesting. The Blueberry Jam makes sense as you kinda of want something jammy and gooey, not just straight up blueberry.

1 points

by mlNikonabout 9 years ago

was just wondering which recipe you liked better this one or the one you have on atf?

2 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

I prefer the recipe I posted to ATF. This is just a simplified version adapted for beginners who don't have every flavor under the sun.

1 points

by Dalphoabout 9 years ago

Thanks Vurve, I'm going to play around with this.

1 points

by jonest27about 9 years ago

Hiya mate, Thanks for the recipe :) Can't help wondering though if I'm going to get any flavour from this. It's only 4.5% flavour... Is that right? What vg/pg ratio do you mix this one at and how long did you steep for? Thanks!

1 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

Absolutely enough flavor!

More isn't always better. PG/VG ratio is usually around 70/30. Steep time is about 1 week.

1 points

by Bevlarabout 9 years ago

What's the steep time?

1 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

1 week

1 points

by Bevlarabout 9 years ago

Thanks for the reply Vurve. The waiting is the worst thing about DIY.

1 points

by Vurveabout 9 years agoVurve with the Swurve

Couldn't agree more. I'm rather impatient myself.

1 points

by AWWsteveabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

FLV Strawberry should be good for a strawberry pop-tart as it's very jammy. I'd follow Vurve's ATF posted recipe and use Strawberry Ripe at 3% and sub Shisha Strawberry for FLV at the same %.