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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! 
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine Canadian, North American
Keyword best, butter tarts, pecan, raisin
Special Diet Vegetarian
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 14 minutes
Total Time 19 minutes
Servings 12 servings
Calories 232kcal
Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoon butter melted
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs slightly beaten
  • ¼ cup cream
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • ½ cup raisins (approximately) or substitute finely chopped pecans
  • 18 tart shells
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C.
  • Place a few raisins or chopped pecans in unbaked tarts shells
    tart shells in a muffin tin with raisins in bottom of tart shells
  • 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.
    all ingredients in glass bowl, in order given
  • Whisk until well combined. * A whisk should be used for this part, although I don't have that in the photo
    whisk in large glass bowl, with butter tart mixture
  • Pour filling in to tart shell to ⅔ full.
    butter tart filling poured into tart shells until ¾ full
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes or until filling is set and shells are lightly browned.
    baked butter tarts in muffin tin
  • Cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes.
    butter tarts cooling on wire rack

Notes

*See post contents for important recipe information and tips! 

💭 Top Tip

If you only have a 12-muffin tin and not enough tarts to fill it, fill the empty ones with ⅔ water. This helps it to bake evenly.
Just be sure to rotate the pan halfway through the baking process.
muffins tin filled with ½ tarts and ½ water
Nutrition Facts
📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 butter tartt)
Calories 232 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Trans Fat 0.1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 43mg14%
Sodium 94mg4%
Potassium 90mg3%
Carbohydrates 32g11%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 19g21%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 171IU3%
Vitamin C 0.4mg0%
Calcium 25mg3%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1butter tartt | Calories: 232kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 43mg | Sodium: 94mg | Potassium: 90mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 171IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 2mg