Best Raisin Currant Butter Tarts

Best Raisin Currant Butter Tarts

Homemade pastry is cut into 4-inch rounds and fitted into muffin pans. It is then filled with a butter, brown sugar and raisin and currant filling. Bigger (and better) than the tarts you would buy in a store.

Preparation Time
45 mins
Cooking Time
25 mins
Total Time
1 hr 10 mins
Calories
404 Calories

Recipe Instructions

Step 1
Whisk flour and salt together in a large bowl; cut in the shortening with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork, until the flour mixture is moistened. When you squeeze a handful of the moistened pastry mixture, it should form a ball. Divide dough in half and shape into balls.
Step 2
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Spray 36 muffin cups with cooking spray.
Step 3
Roll pastry out 1/8-inch thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 4-inch rounds; press rounds into the bottom and up sides of muffin cups to make tart shells.
Step 4
Beat brown sugar and butter together with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; beat in eggs, milk, and vanilla extract just until combined. Stir raisins and currants into butter mixture; fill tart shells with mixture 2/3-full.
Step 5
Bake in the preheated oven for 8 minutes; leaving oven closed, reduce temperature to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and bake until filling is bubbly and pastry is lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
Best Raisin Currant Butter Tarts
Best Raisin Currant Butter Tarts

Ingredients

  • 2 cups shortening
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 5 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅔ cup milk
  • 1 ¼ cups raisins
  • 5 eggs, beaten
  • cooking spray
  • 1 ¼ cups dried currants
  • ¾ cup ice water, or as needed
  • 5 cups brown sugar
  • 1 ⅔ cups butter, softened
  • 5 teaspoons vanilla extract

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