butter tart

noun

1. a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins

Example Sentences

Sara Bonisteel, a writer for The Times’s Cooking section, shares her butter tart recipe.

From New York Times

The slow return of U.S. visitors was noted at other places on a recent trip to the Niagara Peninsula — from Matty Matheson’s Meat and Three takeout barbecue joint in Fort Erie, to the Flying Saucer diner in Niagara Falls, to the butter tart epicenter Niagara Home Bakery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

From New York Times

Dessert generally features a pumpkin pie and possibly a maple-kissed butter tart.

From Salon

Nanaimo, for its part, has designated local restaurants and cafes where people can try the bars, in the spirit of the food-tourism trails that two regions in Ontario have created for that other signature Canadian dessert: the butter tart.

From New York Times

Showy desserts include a passion-fruit soufflé and a peanut butter tart.

From New York Times