Good food, made wonderfully simple.

These homemade lemon cream pop tarts are prepared with flaky, crispy crust, a lemon cream cheese filling, and a thin lemon glaze. Each rectangle is shaped like a familiar toaster pastry, but the interior tastes like lemon cheesecake and the edges bake up buttery and golden. This short-cut-friendly recipe yields eight pastries and concentrates on…

Homemade Nutella pop tarts transform cold refrigerator pie crust and a familiar chocolate-hazelnut spread into crisp, fork-crimped pastries with creamy interiors. The filling is not spread out thinly, but instead is heaped into a compact mound, so it stays generous while a neat pastry border provides each tart room to close. This little fast project…

Homemade cookies and cream pop tarts enclose a cool, speckled cheesecake filling in tender black-cocoa pastry, then add a thin vanilla glaze and a shower of chocolate-cookie crumbs. They have that dark cookie shell and pale cream contrast people love, but in a buttery handheld pastry with crimped, crisp edges. The resulting recipe makes eight…