The best reaction I ever got out of the sprog when he was about 6ish and he totally loves butter tarts. We made some while he was at school. I had 2 of them and that was enough for me really. When he got home he asked how many I had and would not believe I only had 2. So seeing that he just wasn’t going to believe it I then said something like ‘Sorry I lied, I had 6’. He totally lost it was screaming that I was kicked out of the house… best pulling of the kids leg ever. I am a bad dad.
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FIFY. Made butter tarts, check. Pulled your kids leg, check. yep, a good dad alright! 
especially if you threw in a few corny groaner jokes and a hair tossel.
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Well I helped MrsTobinL with the making but it was mostly her. No groaners or hair tossel. The kid had a full on raging tantrum, he honestly was screaming that I was kicked out of the house. I still don’t think he has fully forgiven me.
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Still a good dad, they need that some times.
I also do not know why, it can be nerve wreaking. But it helps /works in the long term.
Even NOT EATING ALL of the butter tarts before your kid got home is setting the bar pretty darn high! 
My daughter would never have know the butter tarts even existed, the key is to make sure you bury the evidence deep deep in the garbage! hahaha
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What the hell? I’ve never even heard of a butter tart. What is it? What does it taste like? How to do I make it?
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Well according to Rex Libris Hard Boiled Librarian…
A Canadian pastry dessert, they are very high in calories but are also correspondingly delicious. In an effort to preserve world health and slim waistlines, export of Buttertarts was banned by Pierre Trudeau during the seventies. Walnut, Pecan, and raisin variations are common. Due to their highly addictive nature, they are a controlled substance in the United States.
But brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs and butter in a pastry shell, what is not to like?
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Oh I was almost falling down laughing at the time. It wasn’t too funny to him though. Or did you mean for the kid?
Both 
I’m a bad mother.
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The closet American equivalent seems to be shoofly pie, but with maple syrup instead of molasses, and we make em small, tart sized, and runny, and yes, heaven.
I had no idea it was a Canadian only thing until recently. We keep secrets apparently.
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I’m Australian, I don’t know what shoofly pie is either.
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Imagine a pie filling made out of pure sugar. The real thing is sweeter than this.
Sugar pie, which is, I think, the quebec version of shoofly pie, is both delicious and crazy sweet. Best when served with coffee.
my go-to sugar pie recipe (I substitute a little maple syrup for some of the brown sugar):
butter tarts, on the other hand, don’t seem crazy sweet to me. I deeply regret that I lost my grandma’s recipe for butter tart filling, but I believe that something like this is pretty close
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You are all taking the piss from me. There is no such thing as a Shoe Fly or Buttered Tart.
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Better still, grill stone fruits. Grilled peach, plum, and apricot are mind-blowingly delicious.
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They keep talking about this magazine on my local NPR station, and I finally read an article by them about Killer Mike. It seems a great magazine.
It’s a pecan pie without the pecans.
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I like pouding chômeur.
Take a trip to Victoria and have tea somewhere. You will get good butter tarts and if you check craigslist you may find a buttered tart if that is to your liking.
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Weird.
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