Pecan Pie Cookies

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Yields: 1 batch

Ingredients

• For Crusts

• 8  ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1  cup butter, at room temperature
• 2  cups flour

• For Filling

• 2  eggs, beaten
• 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar, packed
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups  nuts, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. Nuts may be either pecans or walnuts.
3. To make crusts: Cream butter and cream cheese.
4. Add flour and mix until dough comes away from edges of bowl.
5. Make 1" balls and press into a greased mini-muffin tin (making indentation for filling).
6. To make filling: Beat sugar into eggs.
7. Add vanilla.
8. Stir in nuts.
9. Spoon into shells, filling no more than 3/4 each (filling will rise during baking).
10. Bake at 325 for 30 minutes.