Butter tart pastry recipe

Indulge in some Old Fashioned Butter Tarts. A popular Canadian dessert recipe of pastry shells filled with a rich, buttery caramel filling.

Classic Canadian Butter Tarts with homemade butter pastry

This Butter Tarts Recipe will teach you to make the classic Canadian dessert with flaky pastry shells and a rich and gooey sweet filling.

Mom’s Old Fashioned Butter Tarts are pure buttery goodness! Not the healthiest dessert but super delicious. Even better with raisins!

Indulge in some Old Fashioned Butter Tarts. A popular Canadian dessert recipe of pastry shells filled with a rich, buttery caramel filling.

These Butter Tart Squares are so sweet and gooey -- a shortbread crust makes these so easy and SO good! So much quicker than butter tarts.

A Canadian treat that everyone should try, these EASY Butter Tarts consist of a flaky crust filled with a buttery, caramel-like center!

These old fashioned butter tarts are a Canadian classic. A rich filling of brown sugar, butter and raisins is surrounded by a flaky pastry shell.

Canadians are fiercely proud of these gooey tarts, which are a national tradition. Like chess pie, the filling should be just barely set and the pastry golden. Though some add raisins to the filling, staunch devotees prefer them plain. This version, sweetened in part with maple syrup instead of the traditional brown sugar, is shared with us by Canadian chef and writer Deborah Reid.

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!