Tassies

Recipe Ingredients

		For Pastry Shells
2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	Sifted all-purpose flour - sift then measure
2		Cream cheese - (3 oz) - softened
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Butter or margarine - (2 sticks) - softened
		For Filling
3 tablespoons	45ml	Butter or margarine
3		Eggs - beaten
2 cups	320g / 11oz	Light brown sugar - (packed)
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Chopped pecans - see tester's note
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt

Recipe Instructions

To prepare pastry shells: Combine flour, cream cheese and butter; mix well with pastry blender. Chill dough. Shape dough into balls the size of a walnut. Place one dough ball into each cup of miniature muffin tin; with fingers, press dough until it covers bottom and sides of muffin cup.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

To prepare filling: Melt butter in saucepan. Add eggs, brown sugar, pecans, vanilla and salt; cook about 5 minutes.

Put about 1 teaspoon of filling in each pastry shell. Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool, then store in refrigerator.

Yields 48 tassies.

Tester's notes: Small pecan pies; very rich and fancy looking. Use care when filling the pastry shells; too much filling will cause tarts to stick in pan. These freeze well. They can be made with walnuts instead of pecans, if desired.

Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 12-07-1998 - Sharla Drumm, Washington, MO

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