Vegan chocolate fudge poptarts are your favorite childhood breakfast, turned healthy! Made with 3 simple ingredients, these poptarts are a fun breakfast or dessert option, and they’re gluten free and naturally sweetened.
GUYS, WE GET THE KEYS TO OUR HOUSE TOMORROW!!!! Can’t breathe. Too excited. Let’s celebrate with a lot of chocolate, specifically some vegan chocolate fudge poptarts.
Did you eat poptarts growing up? I don’t want to make assumptions, but I feel like most of us did. When I was younger, I didn’t really like breakfast (GASP), because usually I’d roll out of bed about 10 minutes before I had to leave for school, and obviously I wasn’t working out at age 11, so I really didn’t have an appetite first thing in the morning. I think my mom sort of resorted to poptarts as a way to get me to eat at least a bite of anything before going off to school.
I remember many mornings taking about 4 bites, after breaking off the crusts obviously, because the filling was the best part. Brown sugar cinnamon was a classic, of course, that I feel like everybody loves. But my chocolate-loving soul was most satisfied by the chocolate fudge flavor. Chocolate crusts, chocolate icing, and chocolate filling. All part of a balanced breakfast, no? What was your favorite flavor?! Seriously, I want to know, for future healthy poptart recipes! 🙂
I don’t even want to think about the ingredients in real, store brand poptarts. I haven’t had one in probably 10 years, but they are a pretty fun and playful concept for breakfast, so let’s make our own! Still super rich and chocolatey, but made with 3 (I KNOW) healthy ingredients.
These vegan chocolate fudge poptarts are really fun to make. One of my favorite things to do is recreate nostalgic recipes, and poptarts totally fit that bill! I still am having a hard time deciding if these are breakfast or dessert. Considering they’re made of just oats, dates, and cocoa powder, you definitely could eat them for breakfast and go conquer an awesome day. BUT I’m leaning hard toward the dessert side – they seem like a fun, weekend treat.
Whatever time of day, what I do know for certain is that these vegan chocolate fudge poptarts will blow you away with their texture, rich chocolate flavor, and creamy filling. Pool of chocolate on top, optional, but highly recommended, of course.
Ingredients for vegan chocolate fudge poptarts
- Rolled oats: you’ll blend the oats to flour consistency, which will hold the poptart dough together and gives great chewy texture.
- Cocoa powder: cocoa gives the poptart dough and filling rich chocolate flavor.
- Medjool dates: you’ll blend the dates with hot water to make a paste, which sweetens the poptart dough and filling naturally.
Tips for making vegan chocolate fudge poptarts
- Be careful when adding the filling. When the bottoms of the poptarts have baked, you’ll set the pan on the counter and carefully spoon the filling onto each poptart bottom. Remember, the pan is hot, so be super careful.
- Do not overfill. It’s tempting to add a lot of filling to the centers of the poptarts, but if you fill them too much, it’ll all ooze out the sides when you seal them up.
- Prepare the topping while the poptarts finish baking. Of course, these vegan chocolate fudge poptarts are incredible with no topping at all. Chewy crust, creamy filling, all good things. BUT if you’re going all out with these fun treats, you might as well mimic the frosted poptarts, right? You have two options – more of the cocoa date paste, exactly the same as the filling, can be spread over the top of each poptart for a creamy, frosting element. OR if you want them to be super decadent, you can melt down some vegan chocolate chips (or a bar of chocolate) and drizzle or spread over the tops of the poptarts, which is what I did.
These vegan chocolate fudge poptarts will seriously blow your mind. With a hearty, chewy outside crust and that super rich, deeply chocolate filling, plus some more glossy chocolate on top, you’ll be in chocolate heaven! How amazing is it that these are made with good for you ingredients?! These would be such a fun project to put together with the little ones in your family or some friends. What better way to bond than over a fat vegan chocolate fudge poptart?!
Xo,
Sara
Vegan Chocolate Fudge Poptarts
Ingredients
Poptart dough
- 2 1/2 cups rolled oats, blended into flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups date paste – 24 medjool dates blended with 1 1/2 c hot water
Filling
- 1/2 cup date paste – 8 medjool dates blended with 1/2 cup hot water
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- Optional: vegan chocolate chips melted down to top the poptarts, or more of the filling to use as icing on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together then dough ingredients, then measure out 1/4 c of dough onto a baking sheet and shape it into a rectangle. Repeat until you have 4 rectangles – these are the bottoms of the poptarts, so you'll have leftover dough for the tops – and bake for 10 minutes.
- To make the filling, mix the date paste and cocoa until completely combined.
- Measure about 1-2 tbsp onto each poptart bottom – remember that the pan is hot, so be careful.
- Shape 1/4 c of the leftover dough and gently press over the filling, gently pressing the edges into the bottom dough with a fork. Repeat with the other 3 poptarts.
- Bake the filled poptarts for another 10 minutes.
These look DELICIOUS! The chocolate fudge pop tarts have always been my favorite, too :). So exciting that you get your keys tomorrow! I hope you get settled in quickly! Have a great week!
Team chocolate fudge all the way!! Thanks so much, Kelsie! We have our final walk through tonight so hopefully everything goes as planned 🙂 you have a fantastic week as well!!
I have to admit I had to do a double take once I got to the inside shots…that deeply dark chocolate filling!!! WHOA. Personally I never liked store-bought pop tarts. The concept and flavors sounded so good, but I was always disappointed by the actual thing–too dry and bread-y, not enough filling and flavor. But you have solved that problem perfectly with all the dates and chocolate. When “more complicated” is still just 6 ingredients haha, love it! These look insanely good and totally qualify as breakfast or dessert 🙂
Haha I’m glad you noticed the filling too, when I was making it I did the same thing, it was totally a happy accident but I was like WOW that is so dark and decadent looking! Now that you bring up the actual poptart texture, I totally remember them being soooo so dry. Like chalk. Glad we have these to go to now 🙂 hope you’re having a great week, Natalie!
I loved Peanut Butter Buffalos. They were all chocolate with a peanut butter filling and no frosting. There was an outline of Buffallo imprinted on the top side of the pop tart. I didn’t like the frosting, so these truly hit the spot on the bus, on the way to high school. Would love a recipe made healthy for these.
Haha I love stories like that, Susan!! It’s making me want to try a peanut butter version, may just have to add that to my to do list… 🙂