Butter tarts are an illusive "creature" for some bakers. The recipe seems easy enough; not a lot of ingredients thats for sure; and store-bought pastry shells can be used! Then why are they so difficult to master?

They really aren't difficult AT ALL! The following pictorial recipe adds a few tips to take you smoothly from start to YUMMY!

Grandma's Butter Tarts    

Ingredients: pastry or frozen tart shells, brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, salt, egg, vanilla, raisins or pecan halves     

No time to fool around with pastry?  Try this tasty pan version!

Butter Tart Squares

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