<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hey everyone, Thanks for all the responses. I appreciate the ideas and recipes! I also received several request to summarize this information. We tried our first poptart recipe this morning (using the first pie crust recipe below). My son enjoyed helping me make them and he loved them. He has been eating pop tarts all day!! I have a few suggestions of my own from our first experience. We used cookie cutters with simple shapes such as a heart, a rectangle, or a flower to cut the dough. We had three different fillings. Blueberry - we took fresh blueberries from the freezer and smashed them with some applesauce. Strawberry - strawberry jam Brown Sugar Cinnamon - I used applesauce just to make it moist and mixed in brown sugar and also my cinnamon/sugar mixture that I use for cinnamon toast. (This was his favorite) Roll the pie crust out thin so that you will taste the filling and not just crust. Make a glaze using powdered sugar. I mix powdered sugar with very little water until it makes a glaze. We even added heart shaped sprinkles left over from valentines to the heart shaped poptarts. Here are all the ideas that I received: Excellent website with several other recipes that look good http://www.geocities.com/ARNFL/recipes3.html#cookie I have not tried this yet, but your e-mail got me thinking about those "toasters" sold at camping stores. Of course, this is done over a campfire, but I wonder if they sell something that could be done in the oven. For the campfire version, you butter both slides of two slices of bread (GF), put some pie filling or jam in the middle, then put it in the fire to cook. You end up with a golden, toasted brown treat with fruit enclosed. This might resemble a pop tart. Instead of pie crust, we use Miss Roben's animal cookie mix. I divide the dough in half and roll out two rectangles, one on a greased cookie sheet and one between greased saran wrap. Bake and cut up with a pizza cutter. I also add some calcium powder to the mix to give it some nutritional value. Instead of pie crust, why not try a roll out cookie recipe with some kind of filling. The cookies wouldn't crumble as much as the pie crust. Pie Crust Recipe: 2 and 1/4 cups Bette Hagman GF flour mix 1/2 cup cornstarch 1 stick Butter-flavor solid Crisco couple of dashes of salt 1/2 tsp xanthum gum 1 tsp baking powder 1 egg and 1 tsp vinegar in cup, fill up to one cup with ice cold water Mix all dry ingredients. Add Crisco, cut into pieces, use pastry blender or fork and mix until little pieces form (like oatmeal). Mix egg, vinegar and water together, add about 3/4 of liquid to dry mix. Mix well, then add a little more liquid till mixed thoroughly. Divide into 2 balls, wrap in cellophane wrap and chill overnight in refrigerator. For pie crust, roll out on floured surface. Place in pie pan, trim edges and flute. If baking empty pie shell, prick the sides and bottom of crust with a fork. Bake 375 till done. Sorry I don't know the exact time. This makes a beautiful golden crust, pretty thick and very tasty. I have found it helpful to use Silpat or a nonstick pad to roll out dough. Wax paper would probably work. Sprinkle the counter top with water, place wax paper over that. The water will help keep it from sliding around. Sprinkle the surface with GF flour, then roll out dough. Then I slide a cookie sheet under the whole thing and use that to invert onto pie plate. There is plenty to make a nice 9 inch crust. That is how I got the idea to make poptarts, there is enough left over to make one big one or 2 small ones. To make poptarts without making pie crust first, just follow the same basic directions, use a pastry wheel or knife to cut rectangles. Don't make them too big, they will crumble like our other GF items. I usually make them about half the size of the commercial ones. They are easier to pack and take along when they are smaller. Place them on cookie sheet, spread with a little bit of preserves, don't get too close to edge or it will leak. Place another rectangle on top, then press around the edges with the tines of fork. Poke a few holes across the top with a fork. Bake at 375 till done. POPTART crust (with bean powder) (2 pie crusts) 1. Sift together: 1/4 tsp. salt 1+3/4 cup white rice flour 1/4 cup Bean Powder 2. Add: 3/4 cup +2 Tbs.. GFCF margarine 3. Cut margarine into flour mixture with a pastry blender until well blended. 4. Add: 2 eggs 1tsp. red wine vinegar 5. Gradually add while mixing enough cold water to form a ball. 6. Flour(rice) a board or wax paper well. 7. Divide dough in half, form two balls Flour top of one ball and roll out dough. (keep dusting top with flour as you roll out). 8. For POPTARTS use rectangular cookie cutter approx. size of pop tart ( we have a gingerbread house roof cutter that's just the right size). Cut two pieces. 9. Apply 2 Tbsp. GFCF pie filling or 100% fruit spread to one piece. 10. Place 2nd piece on top and seal the edges by running a moistened finger around edge and lightly crimping. 11. Prick the top with a fork. 12. Bake at 350deg. on Cookie sheet for 15-20 minutes or until done. 13. When cool drizzle with 10x sugar or GFCF icing. 14. Same dough can be used for pie crust and top in normal fashion. Top dough should roll up on rolling pin fairly easily without cracking! Bake them and freeze with wax paper between then toast in toaster to serve.. I use the pie crust recipe from Bette Hagman's cookbook. Donna Joe's Vinegar Pie Crust, add some Comstock pie filling and bake I prepared pie crust dough from Betty Hagman's book. Put a ball of dough between saran wrap on a taco press. Voila!! Then you can fill it, fold it, and bake. Its very good. I'm pretty sure there is one in the Incredibly, Edible GF foods for Kids book. I have posted the recipe at this other excellent site: http://login.prospero.com/dir-login/index.asp?webtag=celiac&lgnDST=http%3A%2 F%2Fforums%2Edelphiforums%2Ecom%2Fceliac%2Fmessages For the recipe, look there: http://forums.delphiforums.com/celiac/messages?msg=7387.1 Enjoy!! Valerie Thayer Knoxville, TN _________________________________________________________________ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage. Multiple plans available. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/ direct/01/ *Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the CELIAC List*