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Butter Tarts (Full Recipe)

Wildly popular, Canadian treat. Scroll down for a half-recipe.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time12 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: baking, raisin
Servings: 96 tarts

Equipment

  • Mini muffin tins. I use metal but maybe the silicone ones work, too.

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups packed brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup butter, melted but not too hot
  • 1 ½ cups raisins
  • 4 sheets Pre-made pie crust (2 boxes) (Get the Pillsbury one)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Grease a mini-muffin pan, 24-count is best.
  • Cut pie pastry with a 2 to 2½ inch round cookie cutter, depending on what fits your mini-muffin tins.
  • Put pastry shells into well-greased miniature muffin tins. (I use a cooking spray, but greasing each spot with shortening might be nice as pie crust is made with shortening.)
  • Mix all ingredients – except the raisins – together.
  • Put 3-5 raisins in each shell, covering the bottom pretty well.
  • Spoon about a teaspoon of mixture into tart shells. Err on not over-full as the mixture will increase in volume when cooked and if the filling bubbles out they kinda spot-weld themselves to the pan and are hard to remove.
  • Bake until shells are golden brown, about 12 minutes; check often.
  • Remove from oven and let cool slightly before removing to a cooling rack. If any filling has bubbled above the shells and spot-welded the tarts to the pan, remove those while still warm.
  • A full recipe makes probably 4 pans – 96 tarts.

Notes

  • We often halve this recipe and then only add 2" to each waistline.