Butter tarts

  • Vegetarian
  • Low in lactose

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for a snack

Canadian tartlets of flaky butter pastry with a runny filling of butter, brown sugar, golden syrup and eggs, with raisins; 12 tarts, 1 tart per portion.

12 servingsFinal yield 913 g

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Ingredients

  • 250 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
  • 115 gButter, without salt
  • 2 gSalt, table
  • 60 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 10 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched editorial addition
  • 200 gSugars, brown
  • 80 gSyrup, Cane
  • 60 gButter, without salt
  • 100 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 5 gVinegar, distilled
  • 1 gSalt, table
  • 100 gRaisins, dark, seedless (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)

Method

  1. Mix 250 g flour with 2 g salt, rub in 115 g cold butter to pea-sized crumbs and stir in 60 g ice water until the dough holds together.
  2. Wrap the dough and rest it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile stir together 60 g melted butter, 200 g brown sugar, 80 g golden syrup, 2 eggs, 5 g vinegar and 1 g salt just until combined, do not whisk. Rinse and dry the raisins.
  4. Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Roll the dough out to about 4 mm on a surface dusted with 10 g flour, cut 12 rounds of 10 cm (re-roll the scraps) and press them into a muffin tin (about 36 g pastry each).
  5. Put about 8 g raisins into each case and pour in filling to two thirds of the height (about 37 g each).
  6. Bake for 18 minutes at 200 °C until the pastry is golden and the filling bubbles in the centre.
  7. Leave the tarts in the tin for 10 minutes, loosen with a knife and cool on a rack for another 10 minutes; the filling thickens as it cools but stays gooey inside.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
3,619.3 kcal
Protein
44.4 g
Fat
154.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
533.2 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
11.5 g
Saturated fatty acids
92 g
Sodium
1,460.1 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
3.7 g

Per serving

Energy
301.6 kcal
Protein
3.7 g
Fat
12.9 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
44.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
0.96 g
Saturated fatty acids
7.7 g
Sodium
121.7 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.3 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
396.4 kcal
Protein
4.9 g
Fat
16.9 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
58.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
10.1 g
Sodium
159.9 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.4 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Some specific ingredients are represented by the closest generic food with the same culinary function.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Egg, Milk

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal