Coffin Pop Tarts – Perfect for Halloween!

These homemade 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 recipe for kids to make (with supervision), too!

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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 cookie cutter on Amazon.

What you’ll need for these Coffin Shaped Halloween Pop Tarts

Ingredients for Homemade Pop Tarts:

• 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 to draw spider webs and spiders
• Piping bag (or Ziplock bag in a pinch!)
• Coffin cookie cutter

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.

These fun Halloween poptarts 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 treat!

Whether you’re looking for Halloween breakfast ideas or something to bring to a party, this is a simple recipe that will impress. We typically have cinnamon rolls on holidays, but this is a fun twist!

Directions for Homemade Pop Tarts:

1. Preheat your oven to 350º F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet with olive oil.
2. 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.
3. Use the coffin cookie cutter to cut 12 coffin shapes from the piece of dough.
4. Place six of the coffins on a cookie sheet (or baking stone).
5. 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.
6. Carefully place the remaining coffin pieces on top of the jelly.
7. Use the tines of a fork to seal the edges of each pop tart.
8. Poke holes the top of your poptarts with the fork so steam can escape (and they don’t end up big and puffy).
9. Bake in a 350º oven for 20-25 minutes or until slightly brown.
10. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
11. Fill a piping bag or sandwich bag with vanilla frosting. You can also buy a small tube of icing
12. 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!

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 :)

More Halloween Breakfast Ideas:

• Baked Egg Eyeballs
• Candy Corn Waffles
• Breakfast Sandwich Monster
• Monster Balls
• Monster Oatmeal

Trick or treat!

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Coffin Pop Tarts

Created by: Becca Ludlum

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Servings 6 servings

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These homemade pop tarts are coffin shaped and a perfect fun Halloween food! They're great as a special breakfast or even as a fun Halloween recipe.

Equipment

• Baking Sheet
• Coffin Cookie Cutter

Ingredients 

• ▢ Ready to bake 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.
• Use coffin cookie cutter to cut 12 coffins from the crust.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!

Nutrition

Calories: 423kcal | Carbohydrates: 62.2g | Protein: 2.7g | Fat: 137.5g | Saturated Fat: 7.4g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 398mg | Potassium: 9mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 28g | Calcium: 0mg | Iron: 0mg

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