Pecan Tassies

Everyone seems to convey their ain favorite Pecan Tassie recipe, but the crust inward 99% of the recipes out there is the same..... flour, butter in addition to cream cheese.

This year, I added just a trivial extra something to the crust business office of the recipe in addition to it made a HUGE divergence to the overall cookie, they were a large hit.

Tassie Crust
1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
6 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream the butter in addition to cream cheese (with electrical mixer) until it is low-cal in addition to fluffy. Add rest of the ingredients and shell until the dough comes cleanly away from the within walls of your mixing bowl. Flatten dough into a disk, wind inward plastic in addition to chill for 1 hour.

Tassie Filling
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
1 3/4 cups low-cal dark-brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup coarsely chopped pecans

Beat the eggs until really good mixed in addition to lemon colored. Stir inward everything else.

ASSEMBLYRoll pastry into 1 inch balls in addition to house them into an ungreased mini-muffin pan. Using your fingers, press the balls of dough into the bottom of each loving cup in addition to upward the sides. (I role the floured halt of my rolling pivot to press the dough into house instead of my fingers). Put a few chopped pecans inward the bottom of each pastry shell in addition to exceed amongst almost a tablespoon of filling. (see note)

Bake inward pre-heated 375F oven for 15-20 minutes or until the pastry is golden in addition to the filling is set, yet however a trivial soft inward the center. Remove from oven in addition to sit the pan on a wire rack for almost 10 minutes earlier y'all endeavour to elevator them out. Lift tassies out of pan in addition to cool on a wire rack.

NOTE: Keep inward heed that the filling puffs a little as it bakes, then don't overfill the unbaked shells. If y'all overfill them, they volition live harder to teach out. For those stubborn Tassies that desire to stick, only role the tip of a knife to assistance y'all elevator them out of the pan.