{"id":2489,"date":"2012-10-13T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2012-10-13T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T15:35:49","slug":"butter-tarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/butter-tarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter tarts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Julia and I decided to have a &#8216;bake off&#8217; and make butter tarts! We&#8217;ve never made them before, and I wanted to double the recipe but I know sometimes some recipes don&#8217;t double very well, so I asked if she&#8217;d like to do one batch as I do the other! The baking was ON! Julia may be just 12, but she can bake like the best if them!<\/p>\n<p>We had company coming, another family of 7, with 4 girls &amp; 1 boy, just like ours, so one batch of butter tarts just wasn&#8217;t going to be enough. Plus, dh LOVES home baked goodies in his lunch, so leftovers are always a good thing!<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have time to fuss around with finicky pie crusts so we decided to try a new one I found recently, the Wham Bam Pie Crust: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecountrycook.net\/2012\/09\/wham-bam-pie-crust.html?m=1\">Wham Bam Pie Crust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of vegetable oil, I opted to try olive oil, with much hesitation BUT the taste of the crust was excellent!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-091938.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-091938.jpg\" alt=\"20121013-091938.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure this was the right crust for tarts, it tasted great but it took Julia and I forever, and a day, to shape that dough into each muffin tin &#8216;hole&#8217;. I will be using the recipe again for pie though, as I love the taste and shaping it into one pie pan would be much easier!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-092214.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-092214.jpg\" alt=\"20121013-092214.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Butter Tart recipe itself came from a kids cooking book we have:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-092424.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-092424.jpg\" alt=\"20121013-092424.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tarts turned out very tasty so this recipe will be our go-to from now on. I&#8217;m going to try the crust recipe from the book next time.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, if you haven&#8217;t begun to allow your kids into the kitchen to bake &amp; cook with you, start now! No matter what age your kids are, and how much of a pain their messes may be. All our kids can cook &amp; bake and some LOVE to do it very regularly, all on their own now! There&#8217;s not much better as a parent then eating the rewards of teaching your children in the kitchen! They&#8217;ll make you proud (even if they are messy!!) &amp; it gives them great confidence, life skills, and lots learned along the way! It also gives them a way of blessing others. Julia often bakes for friends and get togethers!<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is coming, no better time to start!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-093025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/20121013-093025.jpg\" alt=\"20121013-093025.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Julia and I decided to have a &#8216;bake off&#8217; and make butter tarts! We&#8217;ve never made them before, and I wanted to double the recipe but I know sometimes some recipes don&#8217;t double very well, so I asked if she&#8217;d like to do one batch as I do the other! The baking was ON! 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