143 butter tart recipes

If you like sweet and buttery, you'll love these little gems. Quick and easy if you use store-bought mini tart shells. Or your could make your own shells out of pastry dough and bake them in a mini muffin pan.

Peanut butter cup tarts made with just two ingredients: refrigerated cookie dough and peanut butter cups. The warm cookie puffs then wraps around the candy to form a mini tart shell as it cools.

Canadian butter tart squares with a buttery shortbread base and gooey brown sugar-raisin filling. All the flavor of butter tarts without rolling pastry. Cut into bars for easy sharing.

Classic Canadian butter tart filling baked as a full pie with brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, and currants. Gooey, caramel-sweet center with a just-set custard texture. So good, eh?

Miniature pecan pies bake up in 17 minutes for a one-bite holiday treat. Dark corn syrup filling, chopped pecans, and an egg-white-sealed tart shell keep the bottoms crisp. Sixteen tarts per batch.

Spiced pumpkin custard fills mini tart shells, then gets topped with a broiled pecan-sugar crust. These two-bite holiday tarts balance creamy filling with crunchy caramelized nut topping.

Frozen toffee butter torte with a chocolate-ganache center, crushed Heath bar crust and crown, and whipped butter-brown sugar filling. An elegant no-bake make-ahead dessert.

Barb's Special Sweet Breads Part 7 (Vanilla Cream, Almond Butter) recipe

Leek and goat cheese tart with balsamic-braised leeks and cream layered over crumbled chevre in a pre-baked shell. An elegant French vegetarian tart with rich, tangy flavor.

Gluten-free maple bean tarts with white kidney beans blended into a maple syrup and brown sugar filling, poured over raisins in bean-flour tart shells. Lower fat and naturally gluten-free.

Mini crawfish pies with a buttery cream filling spiked with cayenne, baked in flaky tart shells. Louisiana party food that freezes for up to two weeks ahead.

French-style lemon tart with bright citrus filling, candied lemon slices on top, and a dusting of powdered sugar. Puckeringly tart, silky smooth, and a showstopper on any dessert table.

Fresh tart cherry pie with a flaky double crust and just five ingredients. Summer baking at its most honest, no canned filling required.

Sweet pie dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. The buttery, slightly sweet pastry that elevates fruit pies and tarts.

Lemon poppy seed cake builds a tender tube cake with butter, cream cheese, lemon juice and zest, whipped egg whites, and poppy seeds, finished with a tart lemon glaze.

Pecan tarts with caramel sauce: flaky homemade pastry shells filled with a brown-butter pecan filling, baked golden, then drizzled with silky amber caramel. Individual holiday tartlets worth the effort.