This is the second year in a row that we have’t escaped to Arizona (you know why). But fortunately, November wasn’t too bad this year, meaning we had a lot of sunny days. I can definitely live with that. December has been quite the opposite, mostly we have grey, dull, dreary days. Some days with snow. These are the type of days you don’t even want to get out of bed. At least, I don’t. But eventually, you have to shop for groceries and you drag yourself out of bed.
On one such occasion, I found myself in the baked goods aisle at our local No Frills an aisle I do not frequent. I picked up a packet of ordinary grocery store butter tarts. Why? Why? It was the lack of sunlight, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I snapped out of it and decided to come home and bake a batch. This Five Roses recipe has been my goto recipe for 40 years.
Prize Butter Tarts
Original recipe is from page 135 of Five Roses, A Guide to Good Cooking, 25th Edition (Revised 1983), Published by Lake of the Wood Mills Ltd.
Makes 12 large butter tarts
Ingredients:
- 200 g brown sugar
- 100 mL melted butter
- 1 egg, beaten
- 30 mL milk
- 15 mL vanilla
- 50 g walnut pieces
- 12 large tart pastry (muffin cup size)
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 375° F. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment (in case the filling overflows).
- Add everything but the walnuts and the pastry to the bowl of a food processor. Process until well combined.
- Fill each tart with a few of the walnut pieces and add about 15 mL of the tart filling to each tart pastry, filling only about 2/3 full (these will bubble up during baking quite a bit). Bake for 20 minutes or until pastry is golden.
- Allow to cool completely before serving.
Butter tarts (and other baked goodies) from No Frills – no, no, no! Homemade Butter tarts – yes, yes, yes! 🙂 These look delicious!
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What’s not to like? I love it. Of course it’s bright and sunny here so that may be affecting my mood. GREG
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Sorry to hear you couldn’t make it to Arizona again this year — let’s hope for next year! Anyway, these butter tarts look wonderful. Nice, simple recipe. Perfect. Thanks!
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I have such good memories of butter tarts eaten in Canada! I hope you get to go to Arizona next year *crosses fingers*. Also thank you so much for your amazing moving tips! I sent them to hubby and he was like woah they’re awesome!
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Heeheeh, loved reading your write-up (brought this Canadian gal a big smile) — I say bring the butter tarts in bed with you… win/win no? :))
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I love the ease of preparation of these butter tart and not to mention how good they turned out!
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Oh, these sound amazing, Eva! And just the right size for a special treat!!!
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