Now you’re cooking with butter – Canadian Butter Tarts

I found a very good authentically Canadian Butter Tarts recipe on Mom’s Café Home Cooking Blog. Get the Canadian Butter Tarts recipe here.

Tips for making a good butter tart pastry shell from Mom’s Café Home Cooking Blog are as follows:

• Don’t overwork the dough. Work it so that it reaches the point of where it just holds together.
• Roll the dough on a chilled surface or use a chilled marble rolling pin.
• When you push the dough into the muffin pan do not trim the crust. The crust should look wrinkled, uneven and rough.

Dairy Farmers of Canada also has a recipe for Butter Tarts on their website. Here are some tips from the farmers on how to “cut” butter into dry ingredients, something you will need to do when making the pastry shell. Some tips from the site:

• Measure cold butter, cut it into small cubes
• Then return cut butter to your refrigerator for at least 15 minutes to make sure butter is well-chilled.
• Chill the bowl you’ll use for mixing, too.
• Visit the website to get more tips.
  

So what’s your favorite butter tart filling, raisins, walnuts, pecans, coconut?