A Baking FAIL (sort of)

 

 

We were expecting company for Thanksgiving last Monday, and our guests always enjoy my butter tart squares. Traditional Canadian butter tarts (pictured above) are a favourite of ours, but I prefer to make butter tart squares.

The taste is the same, but I skip the trouble of rolling out pastry, and make then in a cake pan with a sweet crumb base and a topping of butter, sugar, flour and raisins. So the squares were made, baked and sampled the day before. Yummy!

But the next morning, while Ron was preparing to make scrambled eggs in the microwave, he opened the door to the appliance and found a measuring cup full of congealed butter. Oops! I had measured out the butter (1 1/2 sticks) and put it in the microwave to melt, then had completely forgotten about it. It hadn't mattered to the flavour and we had not noticed anything wrong with the sweets the day before. 

Our guests enjoyed the goodies and we didn't mention the omission, but now Ron refers to them as 'tart squares' because there is no butter in them :) 

Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine