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[patgund]

I thought phinnia might enjoy these.....

Maple Butter Tarts

Pie Pastry
½ cup raisins
¼ cup butter or margarine
½ cup maple or lightly packed brown sugar
2 tbsp. flour
1 cup maple syrup
2 eggs, slightly beaten
¼ tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 F.
Prepare sufficient pastry and roll out on floured surface. Cut with floured cookie cutter and line 12 medium sized muffin cups. Do not prick.
Cover raisins with boiling water, Let stand until plumped and then drain. Arrange in tart shells.
Mix together the butter or margarine, maple sugar or brown sugar, and flour.
Stir in the Maple Syrup, eggs, salt, and vanilla
Combine just until blended. Spoon into unbaked tart shells, filling each about 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated 375 F. oven for about 20 minutes. Tarts are done when puffed up in center and nicely browned. Do not allow filling to bubble over.
Makes 12 tarts or a few more if using store bought 2" tart shells.

Maple Sugar Brown Butter Tart

3/4 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup maple sugar
5 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
3 tablespoons browned butter
1 (9 to 10-inch) baked flan shell (see note)

Note: Flan shell can be either pie dough or sweet crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine maple syrup, corn syrup, brown sugar, and maple sugar and mix lightly.
Add whole eggs, egg yolks, and browned butter. Mix until well incorporated. Pour into shell and bake until set for 25 to 35 minutes

Maple Butter Tart Muffins
 
1 1/2 cup raisins
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine (cut in chunks)
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla, rum or butterscotch flavoring
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup Maple Syrup

Place first five ingredients in a heavy bottomed sauce pan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture hot, slightly thickened, and beginning to bubble, approx. 4-5 minutes. Put in fridge, uncovered and allow to cool. 
Preheat oven to 375. Grease 12 muffin tins. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and make a well in the middle. Add warm raisin mixture to well and mix until blended. Stir in nuts.
Bake in oven until golden brown, approx. 15-17 min.
Remove from oven and immediatly pour 1 tsp of maple syrup over each muffin. Allow to sit for 10 min. before removing to rack.

Comments

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[spiffikins]

So this past December, I was talking to my co-workers - 2 of whom were born and raised in the US, and one who was born in Scotland and has lived in the UK and US for >20 years now.

When I mentioned that I had missed out on butter tarts this year since I didn't go home for Christmas, they all stared at me like I had started speaking a foreign language.

Not one of them had ever heard of butter tarts.

I then realized that I hadn't seen any at the grocery store bakeries - and started to wonder if it's a Canadian thing.

I looked it up - according to Wikipedia, butter tarts, along with Nanaimo bars, are distinctly Canadian desserts...who knew?

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Nanaimo bars can actualy be found here in Washington. The butter tarts those were new to me completely

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

*sproing* You can get Nanaimo bars here?
Where? :-)
*drive-by-hug*

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Oooh! :-D Thank you! :-)