Old Fashioned Butter Tarts

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter

  chilled and cut into pieces
• 1/4-1/2 cup ice cold water
• 1/2 cup soft butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

  packed
• 1/2 cup corn syrup

  golden
• 2 eggs

  slightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• pinch of salt

Instructions

• 1 Sift flour, salt and sugar together.
• 2 Using a pastry blender cut butter into flour mix until it resembles course meal.
• 3 Add cold water a bit at a time until dough just starts to hold together. Adding
  too much water will make for a tough dough. Do not over-work the dough.
• 4 Press dough together forming a disk.
• 5 Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
• 6 Roll out the pastry dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into sixteen 4-inch circles
  or twelve 5-inch circles.
• 7 Press the dough into muffin tins being careful not to stretch the dough.
• 8 Refrigerate until the filling is prepared.
• 9 In a large bowl, mix together butter, brown sugar and corn syrup. Stir until the
  butter is creamed and the sugar is dissolved.
• 10 Add eggs, vanilla and pinch of salt. Mix well.
• 11 Fill the tart shells about 2/3 full with the filling.
• 12 Bake at 400º Fahrenheit for 15-20 minutes.
• 13 The filling should be lightly browned and bubbling.
• 14 Let the butter tarts cool in pan for about 10 minutes. Transfer to rack to cool
  completely.

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