Air Fryer Pop Tarts are more delicious than any store-bought toaster pastry! You only need two ingredients to make this perfectly crisp delight!

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Why We Love This Air Fryer Cherry Pop-Tarts Recipe
Ingredients
Substitutions and Additions
Recommended Tools
How to Make Air Fryer Homemade Pop Tarts
Tips
Storage Tips
Other Easy Copycat Recipes
Air Fryer Cherry Pop Tarts Recipe

At first glance, this sweet treat looks like a copycat recipe. But at first BITE, you’ll find Air Fryer Cherry Pop Tarts are more delicious than any store-bought toaster pastry! You only need two ingredients to make this perfectly crisp delight: a refrigerated pie crust and your favorite fruit filling. Opt to top with a sugary homemade glaze and sprinkles, or simply enjoy them hot off the press! Perfect for breakfast, snacks, and dessert!

Why We Love This Air Fryer Cherry Pop-Tarts Recipe

Quick and easy to make with only a pie crust and fruit filling.
Premade pie dough speeds up the cooking process.
Better than buying a box of Pop-Tarts–the box only brags that they’re baked with real fruit!
Perfect air fried pastries with flaky, slightly crumbly edges and fruit filling drizzled with a sugary glaze.
Delicious sweet treat that the whole family will love.
Great for breakfast, dessert, or a quick snack on the go.

Ingredients

All-purpose flour for dusting, optional: Depending on your pie dough, you may not need to use any flour.
Package of refrigerated pie crusts (contains two pie crusts): You can make homemade dough as well if you prefer.
Cherry pie filling
Water
Powdered sugar
Whole milk: If you use half and half or heavy cream, you will have a slightly thicker consistency for your glaze. You might need to add some extra lemon juice if it gets too thick.
Lemon juice (~ ½ a lemon): Lime juice will also work–either fresh or from concentrate.
Sprinkles, optional garnish

Substitutions and Additions

Fruit Flavors: If you want to use another flavored pie filling or jam, feel free to do so. There are so many different flavors to choose from; have fun experimenting with strawberry, raspberry, apricot, peach, or blueberry.
Fun Fillings: There are so many ways you can customize your pop tart with your favorite flavors.
- Chocolate: You can fill your pop tart with Nutella or another chocolate spread and make a chocolate frosting for the top.
- Nut Butters: Use your favorite nut butter as a filling for an extra dose of protein. You can even add chopped bananas or chocolate chips to it for added flavor and texture.
- S’mores: Place marshmallows and chocolate chips in the center of your pastry and top the icing with crushed graham crackers for a campfire twist.

Recommended Tools

Air Fryer
Rolling pin
Knife or pizza cutter
Measuring tools
Medium mixing bowl
Mixing tools

How to Make Air Fryer Homemade Pop Tarts

This homemade Pop-Tarts recipe is a quick and easy way to replicate the classic puffed pastry, but made even better at home! These pop tarts are a perfect way to start your morning or a delicious way to end your day.

Cut The Pie Crust: Roll out your pie crust to a ¼ inch thickness using a rolling pin and cut even 3 inch by 4 inch sized rectangles with a knife or pizza cutter.
Pro Tip: If there’s leftover dough, combine the dough and roll it out again to create as many rectangles as possible.
Fill With Fruit: Fill half of the rectangles with ½ – 1 Tablespoonful of cherry pie filling.
Seal and Slit: Wet the edges of each fruit-filled rectangle with water and top with an “empty” rectangle, lining up the edges. Seal each pop tart with a fork by pressing down on the edges. Spray the tops with cooking spray and cut 2-3 slits on the tops.
Cook and Cool: Cook in the air fryer at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-8 minutes or until lightly browned along the edges. You will need to do multiple batches. Cool completely before glazing.
Drizzle and Decorate: Whisk the powdered sugar, milk, and lemon juice until smooth and drizzle the glaze over the cooled pop-tarts. Decorate with sprinkles.
Serve: Plate and serve cool. Enjoy!

Tips

Be sure to make slits on the tops of the dough before you air fry the pop-tarts. This allows the steam to escape from inside and keeps the dough from bubbling up, and allows the crust to cook more evenly.
These pop-tarts are delicious with or without the glaze.
If you want flatter pop-tarts, use ½ Tablespoon of the pie filling instead of 1 Tablespoon. More pie filling will make the pop-tarts more like a pastry.
Be sure that you don’t overcrowd the air fryer. You need to make sure that there is enough room for the air to circulate for these to become crispy.

Storage Tips

To Store: Place your poptarts in an airtight container and store them at room temperature for up to 3 days. You can also place them in the refrigerator for 6-7 days.
To Reheat: Use the air fryer at 300 degrees Fahrenheit to reheat your pop-tarts for 1-2 minutes.

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Air Fryer Cherry Pop Tarts

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Air Fryer Pop Tarts are more delicious than any store-bought toaster pastry! You only need two ingredients to make this perfectly crisp delight!

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Prep Time 30

Cook Time 10

Total Time 40

Ingredients

▢ All-purpose flour for dusting optional
▢ 14.1 ounce package of refrigerated pie crusts contains two pie crusts
▢ 10-12 tbsp cherry pie filling
▢ Water
▢ 1½ cups powdered sugar
▢ 2-3 tbsp whole milk
▢ 1 tbsp lemon juice ½ a lemon
▢ Sprinkles optional for garnish

Instructions

Lightly flour a hard surface with the all-purpose flour and then roll out and flatten your pie crusts to a ¼ inch thickness using a rolling pin.
Use a knife or pizza cutter to cut even 3 inch by 4 inch sized rectangles out of the dough. If there’s leftover dough, combine the dough and roll it out again to create as many rectangles as possible.
Fill half of the rectangles with ½ – 1 Tablespoonful of cherry pie filling.
Use a pastry brush to wet the edges of each rectangle containing the filling with water.
Place the empty rectangles atop the rectangles with cherry filling, lining up the edges.
Press down on the edges of each pop tart with the tip of a fork to seal them.
Spray the tops of the pop tarts with cooking spray and then use a knife to create 2-3 slits on the tops of all the pop tarts.
Cook in the air fryer at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-8 minutes or until lightly browned along the edges. You will need to do multiple batches.
Once the pop tarts are done cooking, set them aside to cool.
In the meantime, whisk the powdered sugar, whole milk, and lemon juice in a medium bowl until smooth.
Drizzle the glaze over the cooled pop tarts, top with sprinkles, optional, and then plate and serve cool.

Notes

Storage :

To Store: Place your pop tarts in an airtight container and store them at room temperature for up to 3 days. You can also place them in the refrigerator for 6-7 days.
To Reheat: Use the air fryer at 300 degrees Fahrenheit to reheat your pop tarts for 1-2 minutes.

Tips:

Be sure to make slits on the tops of the dough before you air fry the pop tarts. This allows the steam to escape from inside and keeps the dough from bubbling up, and allows the crust to cook more evenly.
These pop tarts are delicious with or without the glaze.
If you want flatter pop tarts, use ½ Tablespoon of the pie filling instead of 1 Tablespoon. More pie filling will make the pop tarts more like a pastry.
Be sure that you don’t overcrowd the air fryer. You need to make sure that there is enough room for the air to circulate for these to become crispy.