Best Ever Butter Tarts

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Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
Best Ever Butter Tarts
12
Servings
15m
Prep Time
20m
Cook Time
35m
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Recipe: #2363

November 11, 2011

Categories: Desserts, Fruit, Raisin, more

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"Butter Tarts, sweet, buttery, scrumptious flaky melt in your mouth treats that are a must make at our house at holiday time. Many families have their versions for this Canadian classic, this one is ours and the one I have been making for holidays and special occasions for many, many years. The recipe was passed to me as 'Best Ever Butter Tarts' I have agree - they are the best I've ever made! Another of our 'Christmas traditions in the making' and is being passed down to my family"

Original recipe yields 12 servings
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Ingredients

Nutritional

  • Serving Size: 1 (49.1 g)
  • Calories 164.1
  • Total Fat - 7.2 g
  • Saturated Fat - 3.4 g
  • Cholesterol - 27.5 mg
  • Sodium - 145.5 mg
  • Total Carbohydrate - 23.9 g
  • Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
  • Sugars - 12.7 g
  • Protein - 2 g
  • Calcium - 21.4 mg
  • Iron - 0.5 mg
  • Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
  • Thiamin - 0 mg

Step 1

Prepare you favourite pasty, roll to 1/8 thick

Step 2

Using a large round cookie cutter or lid, cut and fit into muffin cups. Do not prick

Step 3

I like to cover with wax paper or plastic wrap while preparing the filling

Step 4

Pour boiling water over raisins, let soak until white. Drain, dry well with paper towel

Step 5

In mixing bowl, cream butter, add brown sugar beating in thoroughly

Step 6

Add in salt,corn syrup, beaten egg ,vanilla and lemon juice mix together

Step 7

Fold in raisins or divide raisins equally into your prepared shells

Step 8

Fill 2/3 full, bake in a preheated oven at 375 20 - 20 minutes or until pastry is nicely golden brown and filling is set. Do not allow filling to boil

Step 9

Oven temperatures vary, in my oven to avoid having the filling boil I bake at 375 for 5 minutes - I reduce temperature to 325 bake 5 minutes, then once again lower the temperature this time to 300 and bake about 10 minutes until done

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Joni

These are delicious tarts and will be wonderful to serve on Christmas day. I really loved the one I had and I am sure my family will love them too!

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(23 Dec 2013)
Dot

Christmas means Butter Tarts for us Saskatchewan folks. Always keeping an eye open for the best recipe and I have found the one. These tarts are absolutely Delicious. I used the golden raisins since they where nice and plump. So very easy to put together using ready made shells which I put on a cookie sheet to bake. Time permitting I will be making a couple more batches using a home made shell. That would send them right over the top. Thanks Gerry for sharing this wonderful recipe

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(14 Dec 2013)
QueenBea

These butter tarts are divine. A definite keeper recipe. I followed the instructions exactly as listed and they cooked up perfectly.

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(3 Nov 2013)
Luvcookn

These are every bit as gooda as my Nana's! I did not make them in the muffin tins, but used my Mom's old tart tins. And I did add in some pecans. Other than that I made as directed. DH has already asked when they will be made again. Thanks Gerry for sharing another of your families great recipes! Made for Billboard Recipe Tag.

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(3 Nov 2013)
Christianna

Quite possibly the best tarts yet well that I have made anyway realloy doesn't come as a surprise this site has the best recipes, I made these a while ago I just joined the site to post all of my reviews, giving these tarts a high 5 all the way, we loved them!

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(14 Apr 2012)
Crocus

Very good butter tarts. I have my own "best ever" recipe that is a little more complicated and I will continue to use it when doing big bunches of tarts for Christmas, etc. However, this is one great recipe Gerry. I used purchased tart shells; this filling mixed up in just minutes, the tarts were delicious. I liked mostly that I could just whip up a dozen with very little fuss or mess.

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