Tassies
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
24 tarts
- Serves:
- 6-10
ingredients
-
Pastry
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
-
Filling
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 dash salt
- 2⁄3 cup pecans, finely chopped and divided
- maraschino cherry, halved (optional)
directions
- For pastry blend cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Stir in flour.
- Cover and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
- Roll into twenty four, 1-inch balls.
- Place in ungreased miniature muffin tins or small cookie tarts.
- Press the dough against bottom and sides to form shell. Set aside.
- In a bowl, beat brown sugar, butter and egg until combined.
- Add vanilla, salt and half of the pecans.
- Spoon into the pastry.
- Top with remaining pecans.
- Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes or until filling is set and pastry is light golden brown.
- Cool and remove from pans.
- Top each with a maraschino half, if desired.
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