The Great Canadian BUTTER TART

The Canadian Butter Tart doesn't get enough credit. To me it should be as famous as any other food Canada has to offer. Its the greatest and on par with Pastel De Nata (personally). The combination of salty and sweet, the flakey pastry, the gooey butter filling. 10/10. If you have never tried or HEARD of a Butter Tart before, do yourself a favour. Follow this recipe and give it a try! You will not be disappointed...thats a promise.

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The recipe I loosely followed:
However, I added maple syrup!

FOR THE PASTRY:
1 ½ cup/191 grams all-purpose flour, more for dusting
Pinch of fine sea salt
½ cup/113 grams cold unsalted butter or lard (103 grams), cubed
¼ cup/60 milliliters ice water
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon white vinegar
FOR THE FILLING:
¼ cup/36 grams raisins (optional)
1 cup/220 grams packed brown sugar, light or dark (see Note)
½ teaspoon fine sea salt
¼ cup/57 grams unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg

[suechristiansen]

Love butter tarts they should be famous

[LetteringTheLord]

Canadian here, these look every bit is good as all the ones I've tried! And I've tried a lot. I like mine with raisins the best. They are a mashup of a pecan pie filling and any nut or dried fruit you'd like to add to it. Definitely one for the books

[jpallen]

I love the corniness of Canadians. I also love British Columbia and the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen on earth.. I’m gonna have to try this!

[lisaflower]

I have a Canadian daughter (ok in-law, but I love her as my daughter) Thankyou for this recipe, I'll make them for her!

[dgarnett]

Can’t wait to make these! Your a good teacher and great personality. Pie crust is nice and thin, love that! Gooey .. I’m in heaven ❤ keep positive don’t answer smart … ones! Amazing but I love with raisins, or jam and a little cocoanut for hubby. Mmmmm

[KE]

My eldest son (21 1/2 years old) is going to start following in your footsteps and begin his cooking journey !

[melancholymuse]

Californian here, these look so delicious! They look a bit like mini pecan pies that they make in our southern states. I'll give these a shot for sure! Awesome vid btw👍🏽

[joehutter]

Those butter tarts rival Don’s Bakery in Muskoka, ON! Nicely done!!!!

[hardyboy]

As a fellow Canadian, I couldn't imagine a world without butter tarts! (but with raisins!)

[meredith]

My Canadian grandmother used to make these and there were delicious. She put raisins in hers I seem to remember. My sister brought the recipe to Australia and made them for Christmas one year and they were delicious. Somewhat smaller than yours though and maybe some had walnuts?? Thanks for sharing

[cydkriletich]

Very similar to a pecan pie, but lots more butter. And all that brown sugar!! My A1C number just went off the chart! Looks good!

[MamaBethsWorld]

Oh honey! The South is famous for our pecan tarts and pies! Come on down and visit!!!

[TaraDactyl]

Lol I love how casually you just toss everything together.
Anyway, in my quest to get to the corn syrup free roots of the pecan pie I discovered the butter tart and the border (Ecclefechan) pie and those are the closest I find to a pecan pie made traditionally so I'm going with a butter pecan pie leaning on the firm side of the butter tart filling.

[amescot]

Three things. One upset baby. Flakey pastry dough. And a filling.

[cornishcoves]

thank you Jamie I came back and did this again thank you! a special treat for my son visiting from NS!!! It is a convenient recipe that provides a lovely decadent/original dessert/treat. I wish I could give you a picture!! YOW

[ChiaraThijssen]

I’m definitely gonna give these a go! Damn they look delicious 😍 And the recipe seems super easy too. Thanks for the recipe 😁

[animeartist]

Never heard of these, but I have had something similar before. "Pecan tarts" in the USA are basically the same thing as the ones that had the pecans in them. Some places skimp on the pecans and only put two or three in the entire tart, so they're even closer. I may have to try these (but with lots of pecans!) to see if they're better, worse, or about the same.

[ShellyZadorozny-cbcg]

Butter tarts are great my mom made them during the holidays she was from Canada 🇨🇦

[RossOriginals]

I found this when trying to see if anyone had made "Brown Sludge Tarts" from The Dragon Prince... and uh, yeah, these are definitely tarts full of brown sludge. They look nice though.

[iminco]

Love learning something new! Great episode!!