Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, canadian butter tarts 🇨🇦 (canada's favourite dessert!). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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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. 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!

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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!):

1. Take — Pastry Shell —
2. Prepare 256 grams all-purpose flour (2 cups)
3. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon salt
4. Get 190 grams shortening (1 cup)
5. Get 1 egg
6. Take 30 ml cold water (2 tablespoons)
7. Get 15 grams white vinegar (1 tablespoon)
8. Get — Filling —
9. Make ready 100 grams brown sugar (1 cup)
10. Make ready 75 grams maple syrup (1/4 cup)
11. Get 42 grams butter (3 tablespoons)
12. Get 1 large egg
13. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla
14. Take 1 teaspoon vinegar
15. Make ready 1/8 teaspoon salt
16. Prepare 1/2 cup pecans (you can substitute crushed walnuts if you like)

Unfortunately I am disappointed to see a Canadian butter tart recipe with coconut. Have lived in Canada many years and made a lot of these tarts but never with coconut. The tart filling is great and should be no problem if directions are followed. Maybe I missed the ones with coconut.

Instructions to make Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦 (Canada's favourite Dessert!):

1. 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
2. In a small bowl, mix the wet ingredients together (egg, cold water, and vinegar)
3. 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!)
4. In the bowl, press the combined mixture flat, and fold in half (repeat 3 or 4 times)
5. 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.
6. Now we can start on the Filling!
7. Beat the butter, brown sugar, and syrup. Once combined, add the egg, vanilla, vinegar, salt and crushed pecans. Pour into the pastry shells
8. 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.
9. Enjoy!

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. Btarts™ butter tarts are ideally enjoyed using true Canadian etiquette. . . that is with the gooey filling running down your chin, in one very large bite. They're much better by the half dozen, for dessert, for a snack, with coffee, with milk, for breakfast - basically anytime. Step foot into Canada, specifically on the East Coast, and you will find butter tarts everywhere.

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