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Delicious peanut butter-filled chocolate pop tarts

Do you love peanut-butter? You won’t be able to resist treating yourself to one, or more, of these delicious peanut butter-filled chocolate pop tarts!

MAKES 10 // COOKING TIME 1 hour 10 min

INGREDIENTS
For the filling
125 ml peanut butter
30 g icing sugar
2 tbsp room-temperature butter
For the pastry
200 g flour
2 tbsp cocoa
2 tbsp icing sugar
Pinch salt
150 g ice-cold butter, grated
2 tbsp ice-cold water
1 egg, beaten

METHOD
For the filling
1. Combine all the ingredients.
For the pastry
1. Sieve together flour, cocoa, icing sugar and salt.
2. Add butter and rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Add water and gently bring the dough together to make a ball. Cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease 2 baking trays.
5. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about 5 mm thick. Cut it into twenty 5 × 3 cm rectangles.
6. Lay out 10 of the rectangles. Place 1 tbsp filling on each one, brush the edges with egg and then sandwich another piece of dough on top. Crimp the edges together with a fork and trim to neaten.
7. Bake for 20 minutes.

Recipe & styling: Caro Alberts
Photography: Juliette Bisset // HMimages.co.za

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