Buttertart Squares

Source: Tallahassee Democrat Dec. 6th, 2006 Cookie and Candy Exchange (first made on 12/21/08)

Ingredients

• 1 cup Flour
• ¼ cup Sugar
• ½ cup Butter, Room Temperature
• 2 Butter, Melted
• 2 Eggs, Lightly Beaten
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 2 Flour
• ½ teaspoon Vanilla
• ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• pinch Salt
• 1 cup Raisins and/or ½ C. Chopped Pecans, both optional

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F.

For Base

In a bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press into 9x9 inch pan. Bake at 350°F for 15 minutes.

For Topping

In a bowl, mix together butter and eggs. Blend in sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla and salt. Stir in raisins and pecans, if using. Pour over baked base. Bake in 350°F oven for 20 - 25 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly.

Let cool on wire rack before cutting into small squares.

These remind me of Oma’s butterscotch-y squares. Delicious.