Butter Tart Squares
All the filling of a butter tart poured over a shortbread base and cut into squares.
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 40 min
- Total
- 60 min
- Servings
- 16
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Calories
- 270 kcal
Equipment
- •23 cm square tin
Nutrition
Per serving, approximate
- Calories
- 270 kcal
- fat
- 13 g
- carbs
- 36 g
- protein
- 3 g
- calories
- 270
Instructions
- 1
Rub the cold butter into the flour and icing sugar and press into a lined tin.
- 2
Bake at 180C for 15 minutes until pale gold.
- 3
Whisk the brown sugar, eggs, syrup and vanilla without adding air.
- 4
Scatter raisins over the hot base and pour the filling over.
- 5
Bake 22-25 minutes until set at the edges and barely wobbling in the middle.
- 6
Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Chef's tips
Pour the filling onto a hot base so it starts setting immediately and does not soak in.
Ingredient substitutions
- golden syrup → maple syrup
Storage
Keeps 4 days in a tin.
Common mistakes to avoid
- •Cutting warm
- •Overbaking to a hard caramel
Serving suggestions
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