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These homemade Coffin Pop Tarts aren’t just easy and tasty, they’re adorable! Make these spooky Coffin Pop Tarts as a fun treat for your kids, or bring them to a Halloween party. This is also a fun Halloween breakfast idea for kids to make (with supervision), too!
These fun Halloween pop tarts are so easy to make! Allow the kids to decorate them or use a tube of icing to draw spiders and spiderwebs on them–they’re such a fun Halloween party treat!
Though you’ll normally find lots of healthy recipes here at My Crazy Good Life, this is one of the fun and delicious treats I have written up–from long ago when this was still a blog about raising boys and not so much a food blog.
I hope you enjoy it, and make sure to click around a bit if you’d like to check out my healthy recipes that focus on minimally processed ingredients.
Whether you’re looking for fun Halloween treat or Halloween breakfast ideas to bring to a party, this is a simple recipe that will impress. We typically have cinnamon rolls on holidays or for a special breakfast, but this is a fun twist!
Where’s the recipe?
Here at My Crazy Good Life, we write our recipes with a ton of details in the post and the full printable recipe at the bottom.
If you’d like to skip over the detailed instructions about how to make these, along with the recipe tips recommendations, simply scroll down to the Coffin Pop Tart recipe at the bottom where you’ll find the ingredients and directions in an easy to print format, along with links to purchase the coffin shaped cookie cutter on Amazon.
Ingredients for Coffin Shaped Halloween Pop Tarts
- Pie Crust: Ready to bake refrigerated pie crust (I used Pillsbury brand, you can find it in the refrigerated section).
- Jelly: Any flavor (I’m partial to strawberry pop tarts, though!)
- Vanilla frosting: You’ll use the vanilla frosting to draw spider webs and spiders on the pop tarts.
- Piping bag or Ziplock bag: Piping bags are great, but using a ziplock bag in a pinch is just perfect. Be sure to cut a small hole in one corner so you don’t draw too thick of spider webs on your coffin pop tarts.
- Coffin cookie cutter:There are several different options available online, we liked this one because it’s stainless steel.
How to Make Homemade Coffin Pop Tarts:
- Preheat your oven to 350º F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet with olive oil.
- Sprinkle flour on a cutting board or clean countertop, and unroll one pie crust. While these don’t have to be fresh from the fridge, they can’t be room temperature–you’re going to want chilled dough for these.
- Use the coffin cookie cutter to cut 12 coffin shapes from the pie crust.
- Place six of the coffins on a cookie sheet or baking stone.
- With a spoon, add a small amount of jelly filling into the center of the pie crust as shown. Be sure to keep the filling away from the pastry edges so your pop tarts don’t leak in the oven. The goal here is definitely don’t overfill.
- Carefully place the remaining coffin pieces on top of the jelly.
- Use the fork tines to seal the edges of each pop tart. The fork tines are perfect to help seal the jelly inside the coffin pop tarts.
- Poke a few small holes on the top of your pop tarts with a fork so steam can escape. This will prevent them from ending up big and puffy.
- Bake in a 350º oven for 20-25 minutes or until slightly brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
- After the pop tarts cool completely, fill a piping bag or sandwich bag with vanilla frosting. You can also buy a small tube of white cookie icing.
- Cut a small hole in one corner of the piping bag, pipe a spiderweb on top. If you’re not an artist, decorate with Halloween sprinkles instead!
See recipe tips below for more information about making these fun coffins!
Recipe Tips
- Use an egg wash if you’d like these to be a little fancier and shinier. It won’t change the taste at all, but it’ll add an extra step before baking and the end product will look different.
- You can top these with powdered sugar instead of frosting if you’d like–it’s delicious!
- You can use use jelly or jam to make these–I prefer strawberry jam.
- You can make your own pie crust if you’d like. I use the refrigerated crust because I’ll do anything to not pull out my food processor some days.
- If you have any remaining spooky coffin pop tarts, store in an airtight container and refrigerate. If you have many remaining, be sure to put parchment paper in between the coffins if you need to stack them on top of each other.
- If you aren’t too sure you are up for creating frosting art, feel free to sprinkle with halloween sprinkles instead.
More Halloween Breakfast Ideas:
Coffin Pop Tarts
Equipment
- Coffin Cookie Cutter
Ingredients
- refrigerated pie crust I used Pillsbury. Find it in the refrigerated section
- jelly or jam, any flavor
- vanilla frosting
- piping bag or Ziplock bag
- coffin cookie cutter
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Sprinkle flour on a cutting board or clean countertop, unroll one pie crust. refrigerated pie crust
- Use coffin cookie cutter to cut 12 coffins from the crust. coffin cookie cutter
- Place six of the coffins on a cookie sheet or baking stone.
- With a spoon, add a small amount of jelly into the center of the pie crust as shown. Be sure to keep the filling away from the pastry edges so your pop tarts don't leak in the oven. jelly
- Place the remaining coffin pieces on top of the jelly.
- Use the tines of a fork to seal the edges of each pop tart.
- Poke holes the top of your tarts with the fork tines so steam can escape (and they don’t end up big and puffy).
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until slightly brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
- Fill a piping bag or sandwich bag with vanilla frosting. piping bag, vanilla frosting
- Cut a small hole in one corner of the bag, pipe a spiderweb on top. If you’re not an artist, decorate with Halloween sprinkles instead!
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Using a fork to crimp the sides closed doesn’t work
I’m sorry this didn’t work for you–was there filling in there maybe?
Coffin tart pog,
Its official lore now