Skillet Butter Tart Bars

These Skillet Butter Tart Bars are a sweet and delicious dessert inspired by the classic Canadian butter tart! A tender shortbread base topped with chewy butter tart filling baked to perfection in a cast iron skillet, topped with some vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce  – these Skillet Butter Tart Bars will have you in Canadian dessert heaven!  

 

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    If you’ve been following The Busy Baker for awhile now, you probably already know that I’m Canadian. I grew up in Canada and have lived there most of my life, but our family has been living in Eastern Europe for the last year (more about that HERE). We absolutely LOVE where we live at the moment, but of course there are plenty of days that have us missing Canada and missing our family and friends back “home”.  

  My cooking style has certainly evolved since we moved over a year ago, mainly out of necessity. People in this part of the world eat very locally and seasonally, simply because there’s no other way to eat, and so we’ve adopted a similar lifestyle because many ingredients typically found in North America just aren’t readily available here. Of course, I love pulling out my recipe box that I brought with me from Canada and making some of our old favorite recipes from time to time so our family can enjoy some of those familiar flavors that remind us of home. And it’s totally worth every now and then it to splurge on the “expensive” Muscovado brown sugar that’s only available in a few stores here – it’s imported from Mauritius (an African island in the Indian Ocean), but it’s the only variety of brown sugar here that’s exactly the same as the brown sugar in North America, which means all my recipes turn out exactly like they do when I make them in Canada.  

If you’re from Canada too, or perhaps if you’re a butter tart fan, you’re probably familiar with the whole Raisins vs. No Raisins debate. I grew up hating raisins and so if I’m honest, I didn’t actually try a butter tart for the first time until I was a teenager and I realized not everyone makes butter tarts with raisins like my family does! So, feel free to leave the raisins out of this recipe if that’s more your style, but I’ve added them to these Skillet Butter Tart Bars simply because that’s how my grandma would have made them and because I’ve grown to love (read: tolerate) them. And also because I’m married to a raisin-lover and have two raisin-loving kids…go figure!   The delicious crackly crust on these Skillet Butter Tart Bars is simply divine, and the melt-in-your-mouth filling is equally delicious. There’s just something about baking in a cast iron skillet that adds such a depth of flavor that just can’t be achieved any other way. If you don’t bake or cook in cast iron, you should DEFINITELY start!

Try my Skillet Pumpkin Swirl Brownies recipe or this Easy Skillet Chicken Pot Pie recipe!

Whether or not you have Canadian roots, these Skillet Butter Tart Bars will certainly be a hit at your table! And be sure to top them with a delicious scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce to finish them off. No one will be able to resist this decadent Canadian dessert!  

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  I hope you like this Skillet Butter Tart Bars recipe! Let me know in the comments below, what’s your favorite dessert recipe from your culture or country? I’d love to know!

Before you grab the recipe for these Skillet Butter Tart Bars, check out these other delicious recipes I have linked below!

These Pumpkin Swirl Skillet Brownies are simply to die for!!  

    Try my Strawberry Rhubarb Skillet Cobbler for something fresh and delicious!  

      This Easy Skillet Chicken Pot Pie is a super simple weeknight meal that’s pure comfort food!!  

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