Toaster Strudel Breakfast Pastries is a type of frozen pastry

Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...

 introduced in 1984 by Pillsbury. It was developed by a young business man named Mohsen Shahnazari, father of Roya and Beeta Shahnazari. He was convinced that filling a pastry with fruit, and topping it with warm icing would be irresistible - an Americanized version of the Cuban pastelito

Cuban pastry

Cuban pastries are baked puff pastry-type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings....

. After contacting Pillsbury, a team was established to meet with him and develop the morning treat as it is today. They are prepared by heating them in the toaster

Toaster

The toaster is typically a small electric kitchen appliance designed to toast multiple types of bread products. A typical modern two-slice toaster draws anywhere between 600 and 1200 W and makes toast in 1 to 3 minutes...

 and then spreading the included icing packet on top of the pastry. The product has found considerable success since its debut and is available in most grocery stores. It was made to combat popular Kellogg's "Pop-Tarts

Pop-Tarts

Pop-Tarts is a brand of rectangular, pre-baked toaster pastries made by the Kellogg Company. Pop-Tarts have a sugary filling sealed inside two layers of rectangular, thin pastry crust. Some varieties are frosted. Although sold pre-cooked, they are designed to be warmed inside a toaster or...

" as made clear by the slogan "Something better just popped up."

Current flavors

Flavors of Toaster Strudel that are currently available include:

• Apple Cream Danish
• Apple
• Boston Cream Pie
• Cream Cheese and Strawberry
• Cherry
• Danish Style Cream Cheese
• Raspberry
• Strawberry
• Wildberry
• Blueberry
• Cream Cheese and Raspberry
• Cinnamon Roll
• Grape
• Watermelon

Discontinued flavors

• French Toast
• Rainbow Dash
• Chocolate Fudge
• Strawberry-Banana
• Kiwi strawberry
• Smores
• Wildberry w/ Blue Frosting
• Chocolate Strawberry
• Pineapple
• Chocolate

Ingredients

Toaster strudel is food, or convenience food

Convenience food

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is commercially prepared food designed for ease of consumption. Products designated as convenience foods are often prepared food stuffs that can be sold as hot, ready-to-eat dishes; as room-temperature, shelf-stable products; or as refrigerated or...

, with ingredients that differ markedly from a homemade strudel recipe. For example, blueberry Toaster Strudel contain:

Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Palm Oil, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Maltodextrin, Corn Starch, Modified Corn Starch, Dry Yeast, Salt, Dextrose, Whey, Blueberry Puree, Egg Yolk, Baking Powder (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate), Corn Syrup Solids, Citric Acid, Mono and Diglycerides, Propylene Glycol Monoesters of Fatty Acids, Preservatives (Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, TBHQ), Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 60, Colored with (Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5, Artificial Color), Locust Bean Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Soy Lecithin, Glycerin, Sucralose.

By contrast, a popular apple strudel recipe contains:

Flour, Water, Sugar, Butter, Milk, Apples, Eggs, Cream, Yeast, Salt, Cinnamon.

Toaster scrambles

A similar Pillsbury product, Toaster Scrambles, is a toaster pastry with meat and cheese breakfast ingredients, offering "savory" flavors instead of the "sweet" strudels. Currently available varieties are:

• Cheese, Egg & Bacon
• Cheese, Egg & Ham
• Cheese, Egg & Sausage
• Bacon & Sausage Combo
• Reduced Fat Cheese, Egg & Bacon

External links

• Pillsbury - toasterstrudel — Official Pillsbury Page For Toaster Strudel
• Pillsbury - toasterscrambles — Official Pillsbury Page For Toaster Scrambles