143 butter tart recipes

English country house lemon curd is a silky, tart-sweet spread of butter, sugar, egg yolks, and fresh lemon juice cooked slowly over a double boiler. A classic British teatime staple for scones, tarts, and toast.

Acadian cranberry pie, a Nova Scotian tradition: tart cranberries cooked with sugar and enriched with egg and butter, baked in a lattice crust and served with cream. Sweet-tart, rustic, and old-fashioned.

Steamed cranberry pudding with molasses and a warm vanilla butter sauce. A dense, tart-sweet holiday dessert with jewel-red cranberry halves throughout, steamed for 90 minutes in a mold.

Basic tart pastry with butter and shortening for a flaky, tender crust. Rolls thin, fits one large or six small tart pans, and blind-bakes golden in 15 minutes.

Sweet pastry dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, sugar, flour, and egg. A rich, tender, forgiving tart crust that's ideal for lemon tarts and fruit flans.

Classic French currant tart with a vanilla butter pastry shell, silky pastry cream, fresh red currants, and a kirsch-currant jelly glaze edged with toasted almonds.

Classic French tarte aux pommes with butter-sautéed apples in a flaky puff pastry shell, topped with a golden egg and vanilla custard. The apple tart that every French grandmother gets right.

Rhubarb bread pudding layered with buttered bread cubes, fresh rhubarb, cinnamon sugar, and butter. Just 5 ingredients for a tart, crispy-topped spring dessert.

French lemon pie is a simple rustic tart: a whole wheat butter crust filled with a buttery fresh lemon custard and baked golden. Tart, glossy, and finished in an hour with pantry basics.

Sweet and tart with the perfect flake-to-crunch ratio. It's all about the butter pats.

Chocolate peanut butter shortbread baked in a tart pan with a cocoa crust, creamy peanut butter filling, and a chocolate Kiss topped with a whole peanut on every wedge.

Bread-and-butter pickled zucchini turns a garden glut into 36 sweet-tart jars. Mustard seed, celery seed, and turmeric build the classic bread-and-butter spice profile around sliced zucchini and onion.

Upside-down rhubarb muffins with a caramelized brown sugar and butter rhubarb topping. Warm nutmeg-spiced muffins flipped to reveal a sticky, tart rhubarb crown.

A simple all-butter pastry dough made by hand: flour and cold butter rubbed together, bound with a little water, then chilled to rest. A flaky, versatile base for pies, tarts, and galettes.

Georgian chicken with tkemali-style plum sauce: whole chickens broiled with butter, served under a tart plum sauce spiked with garlic, coriander, and red pepper. A Caucasus classic.

Grilled lemon garlic chicken breasts glazed with orange marmalade for a sweet-tart, golden finish. Uses a butter, lemon juice, and garlic marinade with an oven-bake option.