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📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe

This Canadian Butter Tart is the best butter tart recipe you'll ever find because it's an easy butter tart with a delicious gooey filling. It has an easy filling that can be made in under 20 minutes with store-bought tart shells (or homemade no fail pastry). And if you like butter tarts without raisins, there is a pecan butter tart option too!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 14 minutes
Total Time 19 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Canadian, North American
Calories: 232
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

Ingredients
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs eggs (slightly beaten)
  • ¼ cup cream
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • ½ cup raisins (approximately) (or substitute finely chopped pecans)
  • 18 tart shells

Equipment

  • mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Oven
  • Cooling rack

Method
 

Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C.
  2. Place a few raisins or chopped pecans in unbaked tarts shells.
  3. Mix ingredients in large bowl, in order given (butter, brown sugar, eggs, cream). Then add vinegar last. *It's important that you add in order given.
  4. Whisk until well combined. * A whisk should be used for this part, although I don't have that in the photo.
  5. Pour filling in to tart shell to 2/3 full. *If you find yourself with leftover butter tart filling, use the leftovers in this Butter Tart Ice Cream Recipe! In fact, you'll want to double the filling in this recipe just so you'll have leftovers to make this ice cream :) Yes, it's that good!
  6. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until filling is set and shells are lightly browned.
  7. Cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes.