Butter Tarts Recipes

An old family recipe

These are the butter tarts that my wife and her mother make every Xmas. I'm glad that they only make them then because they are irresisable

Great Christmas recipe to give away or eat as you like

easy and very good. You can add chocolate chips, raisins or walnuts but this receipe is calculated without

Put all ingredients in one bowl. Mix together with beater/mix master. Mixture will be a bit soupy with lumps of butter. Fill the tart shells 2/3 of the way. If you fill to the top, you will have a mess.

If you use mini pastry shells, you get 2 dozen per batch. Large pastry shells 12 per batch. I just put them on a cookie sheet to bake. Don't thaw the pastry shells if you use the frozen ones. If you use fresh pasty, cook till pastry is brown and the mixture is bubbly/brown. It sets a bit as they cool.

Gooey, decadent, rich butter tarts are a Canadian national treasure. The pastry melts away to a sweet custard filling with a silken tofu base and bites of chewy raisins. Not health food, but food for the soul!

A truly Canadian treat.