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Butter Tart Squares Recipe

December 5, 2015

Butter Tart Squares Recipe

Butter tarts are so quintessentially Canadian that rival rural Ontario communities exchanged lawsuits over which neighbourhood could rightfully lay claim to Canada’s first “Butter Tart Trail”. Apparently, we love our butter tarts here in Canada. Well, I love them too. This recipe offers the deliciousness of butter tarts with the simplicity of a sheet pan recipe. No more persnickety individual tarts. A fast, easy and delicious recipe, and enough to feed a crowd.

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Ingredients

⅔ cup cold butter
1 ½ cups flour
½ cup icing sugar
½ tsp vanilla
Pinch salt
¼ cup butter, melted
3 large eggs, beaten
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
pinch cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup raisins
1 tbsp flour

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F
Whir first five ingredients in a food processor fitted with a metal blade until crumbly or sift dry ingredients and cut in cold butter with pastry cutter (photo 1 and photo 2)
Press into ungreased 9 x 13 pan
bake 20 minutes or until lightly golden brown, cool slightly about 5 minutes (photo 3)
in a separate bowl, mix remaining ingredients and pour over base (photo 4 and 5)
Bake 20 minutes until set but jiggly
Cool, cut into squares (photo 6)