Butter Tart appears as a signature dish in 1 Canada cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Butter tart · Toronto
The butter tart is the Ontario gooey-runny pastry filled with butter, brown sugar, eggs and corn syrup, sometimes raisins or pecans. The crust is short and flaky; the filling pours when you bite.
The butter tart is a Canadian invention from early-1900s Ontario, with the first published recipe appearing in the 1900 Royal Victoria Cookbook from Barrie, Ontario. The Ontario Best Butter Tart Festival in Midland draws judging in June; Toronto's reference baker is Wanda's Pie in the Sky in Kensington Market since 1989, the runny-centre style the city standard.
Where to eat in Toronto:
- Wanda's Pie in the Sky