Recipe #3: Currant Butter Tarts

Back at baking! Finally had some time and supplies, so I tried a variation on some classic butter tarts. I make these tarts every Christmas and occasional times when Kal and Steph ask me. However, Mike and I went to the Farmer's Market and picked up some currants and other goodies (see below). We had an amazing butter tart that had crushed cranberries baked on top, and I thought I'd try something similar with the currants. They came out beautifully and combine nice sweet and tart flavours.

Ingredients

* 3 1/2 tablespoons soft butter (or margarine)
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 1 1/2 tablespoons corn syrup (I didn't have any this time, but I do usually)
* 1 egg
* a few drops of lemon juice (added for this batch)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* pinch salt
* 12 tart shells (I know, I buy them. Bad me)
* 6 currant stalks, crushed (I did this with a spoon)

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

2. Cream butter, brown sugar, egg, lemon juice, salt, and vanilla together in bowl.

3. Spoon into butter tart shells.

4. Bake for 8 minutes. While the tarts are baking, crush the currants.

5. After you bake the tarts for the 8 minutes, take them out and spoon the crushed currants on top. Then turn the oven down to 375 degrees and bake for another 12 minutes. Voila! Pretty and tasty tarts.


In other food news, here's a picture of Mike's perfectly grilled bison steak! They were so delicious, and bison is so much better for you than beef.