Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, canadian butter tarts 🇨🇦 (canada's favourite dessert!). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
A Canadian treat that everyone should try, these Canadian Butter Tarts consist of a flaky crust filled with a buttery, rich, caramel like, gooey center! Butter tarts are small pastries filled with a caramel-like custard made with butter, sugar, syrup, and egg. This pastry is baked until the filling is semi-solid with a crunchy top.
Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦 (Canada's favourite Dessert!) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦 (Canada's favourite Dessert!) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have canadian butter tarts 🇨🇦 (canada's favourite dessert!) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦 (Canada's favourite Dessert!):
- Take — Pastry Shell —
- Make ready 256 grams all-purpose flour (2 cups)
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Take 190 grams shortening (1 cup)
- Take 1 egg
- Get 30 ml cold water (2 tablespoons)
- Get 15 grams white vinegar (1 tablespoon)
- Take — Filling —
- Prepare 100 grams brown sugar (1 cup)
- Get 75 grams maple syrup (1/4 cup)
- Get 42 grams butter (3 tablespoons)
- Take 1 large egg
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vinegar
- Make ready 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup pecans (you can substitute crushed walnuts if you like)
The tart filling is great and should be no problem if directions are followed. Maybe I missed the ones with coconut. Make the pastry: In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt. Use a pastry blender to cut in the butter and lard until the mixture is in very fine crumbs.
Instructions to make Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦 (Canada's favourite Dessert!):
- In a large bowl, sift together the flower and salt, and cut in the shortening with two knifes until you have pieces the size of peas
- In a small bowl, mix the wet ingredients together (egg, cold water, and vinegar)
- With the dry ingredients, make a 'well' in the center, and add the wet mixture. Fluff this with a fork until just mixed (Do not overmix!)
- In the bowl, press the combined mixture flat, and fold in half (repeat 3 or 4 times)
- Roll out your dough on a floured surface, until it's about 1/4-inch thick, or a little less. Now cut into circles a few inches across (you can use a cookie cutter, or a glass), and press them lightly to a cupcake tray.
- Now we can start on the Filling!
- Beat the butter, brown sugar, and syrup. Once combined, add the egg, vanilla, vinegar, salt and crushed pecans. Pour into the pastry shells
- Cook for 8 minutes at 230 C (450 F), and then reduce the heat to 175 C (350F F) for another 15-18 minutes until the filling is set.
- Enjoy!
Known around the world as a uniquely Canadian dessert, butter tarts are one of the tastiest things to come out of the True North. Nothing beats the flaky pastry filled with a perfectly sticky-sweet centre. Along with Beaver Tails and Nanaimo bars, butter tarts form the Holy Trinity of distinctly English-Canadian desserts. While the first two are finicky, the butter tart is a cinch for home bakers to. Step foot into Canada, specifically on the East Coast, and you will find butter tarts everywhere.
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