BEST RAISIN CURRANT BUTTER TARTS

Best Raisin Currant Butter Tarts image

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.

Provided by TEENCHEF2

Categories Desserts Pies Tarts Fruit Tart Recipes

Time 1h10m

Yield 36

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

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

Steps:

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.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Spray 36 muffin cups with cooking spray.
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.
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.
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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 403.8 calories, Carbohydrate 52.5 g, Cholesterol 48.8 mg, Fat 20.9 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 3.4 g, SaturatedFat 8.6 g, Sodium 211.5 mg, Sugar 36.8 g