Yahoo Lifestyle According to Jonathan Bennett, Real Mean Girls' Fans Make 'Toaster Doodles' From Scratch — Get the Recipe
It's October 3rd and if you're a fan of the 2004 cult classic film, Mean Girls, you know today is Mean Girls Day.
What is Mean Girls Day?
So why is October 3rd specifically "Mean Girls Day"? In the movie, it’s the day Aaron Samuels, a senior, and Cady Heron have their first real, flirty (by Cady’s standards) conversation. Cady sits behind Aaron in Ms. Norbury's calculus class. She had noticed him right away, but new friends, Karen Smith and Gretchen Wieners let her know he was off limits because he had dated Regina George (queen of "The Plastics").
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To celebrate, we're making Toaster Doodles. It's Mr. Wieners’s greatest invention, as told by Mean Girls heartthrob Aaron Samuels aka actor Jonathan Bennett. We all know Gretchen Wieners’s dad is the master behind this toaster strudel. Now Bennett is exposing his secret recipe, straight from Gretchen’s big hair!
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"Some losers get store-bought strudels, which just keeps making Gretchen’s dad rich AF," Bennett says. "But real beyotches make their own breakfast pastry from scratch."
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See below for the breakfast mainstay, which he shares along with dozens of other hilarious recipes based on meme-worthy movie moments, in his Mean Girls'-themned cookbook The Burn Cookbook: An Unofficial Unauthorized Cookbook for Mean Girls Fans. Get in, loser. We're going baking.
Homemade 'Toaster Doodles' Recipe from Mean Girls'
Ingredients
¾ cup strawberry jam
1 Tbsp cornstarch mixed with 1 Tbsp cold water
2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
1 cup powdered sugar
1 to 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
Red food coloring
Set your oven to 425°F. Bring the jam and cornstarch and water mixture to a boil in a small saucepan over low to medium heat. Don’t let it burn, burnt jam tastes like ass. Stir 3 to 4 minutes and then set aside to cool to room temp.
Lay out one sheet of your puff pastry and cut into 4 rectangles. Scoop a hefty spoonful of the thickened and cooled jam in the middle of one end of each piece. Fold those beauties in half and seal like a love letter with a solid ’80s crimp using a fork. Repeat with the next sheet of puff pastry until you have 8 pockets of love. Place on a baking sheet and bake for about 7 minutes, or until golden, just golden enough to be reminiscent of last summer’s spray tan. Let cool.
While baking, whisk the powdered sugar and lemon juice together in a small bowl, adding juice only a ½ tablespoon at a time. This is gonna be icing, so you’ll want a glossy and thick consistency. Add a few drops of red food coloring and stir. Once your strudels have cooled, drizzle with icing. Let icing set for about 30 minutes before you dig in!
