📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe

4 butter tarts stacked on a white plate, with a butter tart split in half in front of the stack

4.50 from 2 votes

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

Cook Time 14

Total Time 19

Servings servings

Calories 232kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

2 tablespoon butter
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
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.
Whisk until well combined. * A whisk should be used for this part, although I don't have that in the photo
Pour filling in to tart shell to ⅔ full.
Bake for 12-14 minutes or until filling is set and shells are lightly browned.
Cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes.

Notes

*See post contents for important recipe information, tips and step-by-step photo instructions!

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