Butter Tart Squares with A Shortbread Cookie Crust
These Butter Tart Squares with A Shortbread Cookie Crust are sweet and taste just like a Butter Tart. Perfect for the holidays!
If you love butter tarts but don’t want the fuss of making them, this Butter Tart Square is an easy and delicious alternative. Tastes just like butter tarts but with a shortbread crust! So good.
SO delicious.
These Butter Tart Squares are so so flavourful. The shortbread crust is tender and buttery, the filling is creamy and sweet and filled with raisins, coconut and pecans. The combination is DELICIOUS.
Perfect for the holidays.
This dessert always seems to come out for the holiday season, I think because of the shortbread crust. But really, it’s delicious any time of year. What I love about it during Christmas is that it makes a big batch…you can have 24-36 bite size squares cut for dessert, parties and potlucks. So good.
Butter Tart Square Recipe Tips
- Nuts: I always add pecans to this square, but you can also use walnuts. If you want to make this nut free, that’s just fine, leave them out and add about 1/4 cup more raisins or coconut.
- Shortbread Crust: Bake the crust for about 10-12 minutes before adding the filling.
- Let it cool completely. Trust me. Don’t try to cut into this too early or you will end up with a soft mess. Let it cool. You can even put it in the fridge for a couple of hours, this makes it much easier to cut.
- A little goes a long way. I cut this pan into 24 squares. The squares may look small, but this is a sweet treat, and a little goes a long way.
- Make it ahead! This is a perfect dessert to make ahead of time. You can make it 2-3 days ahead, and just keep it covered in the fridge until you’re ready to serve it.
Butter Tart Squares with A Shortbread Cookie Crust
These Butter Tart Squares with A Shortbread Cookie Crust are sweet and taste just like a Butter Tart. Perfect for the holidays!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Resting Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Yield: 24 squares 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
Ingredients
The Shortbread Crust
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 cup butter
- pinch salt
The Butter Tart Filling
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cup coconut
- 1 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3 tsp flour
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
The Shortbread Crust:
- In a bowl, using a pastry cutter, cut together the flour, sugar, salt and butter, until it is the consistency of coarse sand.
- Press the butter/flour mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Then set aside.
The Butter Tart Filling:
- Melt the butter, let it cool slightly. Then whisk in the eggs and vanilla.
- Then add the coconut, raisins and nuts. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl mix together the brown sugar, baking powder and flour.
- Add the sugar/flour mixture to the butter mixture, and combine.
- Pour this filling over the crust.
- Bake for 35 minutes.
- Let cool completely before cutting into squares. If you can, wait at least 2-3 hours.
Keywords: butter tart square
Recipe from Best of Bridge
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Yummo! These look so sexy 🙂 These might be made very soon in my kitchen.
Hahaha! Don’t they though?! Sooooo good!
Okay, I gained 3-4 pounds staring at the image…then reading the recipe, well, I swear I felt 2 more pounds creeping on the body… these are a must add to my recipe file for the holidays.
I know…that’s the thing about these squares, they’re just SO good! 😉
Oh! These would be fabulous, shortbread and butter tarts all in one. I am sure that I will be making these!!
My mouth actually started to water as I looked at the picture. I love butter tarts and I love shortbread so this looks like a definite winner.
I just found your recipe – I had some cream cheese shortbread (I had frozen the dough) so used that as my base. Seems like a lot of baking powder but I will reserve judgement until I eat one! Thanks for the recipe.