Quick and Easy Vegan Butter Tarts

The veganized version of traditional butter tarts is here!

Vegan Butter Tarts is easy to make. Vegan Butter Tarts is perfect for your special occasions. Your weekend will be complete with Vegan Butter Tarts.

Butter tarts are about the same size as muffins, but the flavors are completely original or different and the recipe for Vegan Butter Tarts will surely make you realize that with it’s delicious and rich flavor.

This recipe tastes just like the classic version of your Canadian friends know and love!

Vegan Butter Tarts are sticky, sweet, and downright delicious. Vegan Butter Tarts recipe uses vegan ingredients while still tasting like the original. Vegan Butter Tarts recipe is one of the best you will taste.

Vegan Butter Tarts is the option of having a runnier or thicker filling, as many have a preference one way or the other, and you can optionally top the tarts with pecans or walnuts, if you desire. It’s your choice!

Vegan Butter Tarts

Nicole Kearsley

Butter tarts are uniquely Canadian and a beloved ooey gooey treat that's impossible to find south of the border. I don't get back to Canada often so if I want my most favorite dessert of all time, I'm going to have to make them myself. Since I'm not a baker, I used store bought pie shells and cut them to size. Raisins are optional (including raisins is a hotly debated issue in Canada lol) as are pecans. I added chopped pecans to 4 of them because yum.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Canadian, Vegan

Servings 10

Ingredients

  

• 12 pieces Premade Pastry Shells or pie shells cut to shape cupcake tin
• 1/3 cup JUSTEGG
• 2 teaspoons Arrowroot Starch
• 3/4 cup Brown Sugar lightly packed
• 1/4 cup Light Corn Syrup
• 1/4 cup Vegan Butter melted
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 cup Raisins
• 1/4 cup Pecans (optional) chopped

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Wisk together JUSTEGG and arrowroot powder/starch, set aside.
• Wisk together brown sugar, corn syrup, vegan butter, JUSTEGG mixture, vanilla and salt until smooth.
• In each pastry lined cupcake sprinkle raisins (and pecans if using) in a single layer. Fill pastry shells 2/3 full with mixture.
• Bake on bottom shelf of oven at 400°F for 18 to 20 minutes. Mixture will bubble up and overflow onto pastry; this makes the pastry crispy and sweet.
• Cool completely on a wire rack before using a knife around the edge of each tart to remove from pan. **center will firm up if left to sit for 6 hours or overnight but good luck waiting.

Notes

RAISIN-FREE: Not a raisin fan? Even though raisins are traditional in butter tarts, (and in my opinion are WAY better than they sound), there are some who prefer raisin-free tarts. You can replace the raisins with ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans.

FILLING SET: Leave the recipe as-is if you prefer a semi-set, slightly liquidy filling, or add an extra half tablespoon of arrowroot powder or cornstarch to thicken it up a little more. They’ll still be delicious no matter which way you go!

STORAGE: Completely cooled butter tarts can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week in the fridge. They are also fine left in an airtight container at room temperature for a couple of days. Enjoy them chilled or at room temperature, or warm them up for 7-10 minutes in a 350ºF (175 °C) oven.

SERVING: I know they look and smell amazing, but don’t even think about removing them from the pan until they’re completely cool. They are far too delicate when hot and the filling will be dangerously hot. 

Keyword plant based, vegan