Cream Cheese Pecan Tassies Food

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, mix together the margarine and cream cheese until well blended. Beat in flour, 1 cup at a time, until the mixture forms a smooth dough. Roll into small balls, and press into the bottoms and sides of tart pans or mini muffin pans.
• In another bowl, mix together the eggs, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir in the pecans. Use a spoon to fill each of the crusts 2/3 full with the filling mixture.
• Bake for 15 to 18 minutes in the preheated oven, until shell is light brown, and the filling has puffed up. Cool, and carefully remove from pans.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth; gradually beat in flour. Refrigerate, covered, 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. Shape dough into 1-in. balls; press evenly onto bottoms and up sides of greased mini muffin cups., For filling, in a small bowl, mix egg, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and salt until blended. Stir in 1/3 cup pecans; spoon into pastries. Sprinkle with remaining pecans., Bake 15-20 minutes or until edges are golden and filling is puffed. Cool in pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Freeze option: Freeze cooled cookies, layered between waxed paper, in freezer containers. To use, thaw in covered containers.

BESS LONDON'S PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• With an electric mixer, beat the 1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese until smooth. Add the flour and beat until fully combined. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 24-cup mini-muffin pan with cooking spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the melted butter, egg, brown sugar, vanilla and salt until smooth. Set aside.
• Shape the chilled dough into 24 balls, about 1 inch in diameter. Press each ball into a cup of the muffin pan, spreading evenly and up the sides, then spoon 1 teaspoon of the pecans into each muffin cup. Fill each cup with the egg mixture until evenly distributed, about 1 teaspoon in each. Bake until the filling is set, about 25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, and then remove from the muffin pan.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Prepare a grill for indirect heat. If using a charcoal grill, build the hot coals on one side only. If using a gas grill, heat one side only to medium-high heat.
• For the dough: Add the butter and cream cheese to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Cream together until smooth and combined, 3 to 5 minutes. Mix in the flour until just combined. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
• When the dough is cold and firm, portion it into 2 dozen balls. Add each ball to a tassie pan or a mini muffin pan and, using a tamper dipped in flour, press the dough so that it forms a cup. Refrigerate the dough cups for 30 minutes.
• To make the filling, cream the egg, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, allspice, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer the filling to a liquid measuring cup for easy pouring.
• Sprinkle the pecans amongst the refrigerated dough cups. Pour the filling evenly over the pecans.
• Place over indirect heat and bake at 350 degrees F until golden brown and bubbly, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely before lightly dusting with confectioners' sugar. Enjoy!
• (Alternatively, you can bake the pecan tassies in a 350 degrees F oven for 20 to 25 minutes.)

LIGHT PECAN TASSIES IN CREAM CHEESE PASTRY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• To prepare Pastry: Combine flour, 1 Tbsp sugar, dash of salt in a small bowl. Combine cream cheese, butter and milk in large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended.
• Add flour mixture; beat at low speed until just blended and crumbly.
• Press into a ball. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface, knead lightly 3 to 4 times.
• Divide dough into 24 portions, Place 1 portion in each of 24 mini muffin cups coated with the cooking spray.
• Using your fingers, press dough into bottom and up sides of cups.
• To prepare filling: divide pecans evenly among muffin cups.
• Combine brown sugar and remaining ingredients in a small bowl; spoon about 2 teaspoons filling over pecans in each muffin cup.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until pastry is lightly browned and filling is puffy.
• Cool in cups for 10 minutes on a wire rack.
• Run a knife around the outside edge of each cup and remove them from the pan, allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

CREAM CHEESE PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Beat flour, butter and cream cheese in bowl.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Roll into 1" balls.
• Press each ball into greased wells of small muffin tin, forming cups; set aside.
• Bring remaining ingredients to a boil.
• Pour hot mixture, 1 Tbsp at a time, into cups.
• Bake in 400° oven for 12-15 minutes.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Combine margarine and cream cheese with a fork until smooth.
• Add flour in four additions; work in to make very smooth dough.
• Chill.
• Shape into 1 1/4-inch balls;
• Press into small muffin or tart cups to make shells.
• Filling:
• Slowly beat lite brown sugar into eggs.
• Mix in butter, salt, and vanilla.
• Put about 6 raisins and 1/2 teaspoon chopped pecans in each shell; add filling, not quite full.
• Top with a few nuts.
• Bake 25 minutes at 350°, until set.
• Make ahead of time.
• Put wax paper between layers to store.
• Makes about 48 cookies.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In small bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat cream cheese with 1/2 cup butter until creamy.
• Reduce speed to low, add flour and granulated sugar and beat until well mixed.
• Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
• In medium bowl mix brown sugar, vanilla, salt, egg, pecans and remaining 1 tablespoon or butter until filling is blended.
• With floured hands, divide dough into 24 equal pieces (dough will be very soft).
• With floured fingertips, gently press dough pieces evenly onto bottoms and up sides of twenty-four 1 3/4" by 3/4 to 1" ungreased miniature muffin-pan cups.
• I make hundreds of these cookies every Christmas so I use a wooden tart tamper to form the shells.
• Spoon a heaping pecan filling into each cup.
• Bake 30 minutes or until filling is set and edges of crust are golden.
• With tip of knife, gently loosen tassies from muffin-pan cups and place on wire rack to cool completely.
• Store tassies in tightly covered container up to 1 week.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Crust---------------.
• Blend cream cheese and butter, add flour.
• Refrigeerate for about 30 minutes.
• Divide dough in 24 balls and press in mini muffin pans.
• (Note: Do not use dark coated pans.) Filling---------------.
• Combine egg, brown sugar, vanilla and nuts.
• Fill cups 3/4 full.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until light brown.
• Cool 5 minutes and remove from pans.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• EQUIPMENT: Mini-muffin pan (24 cup). Mini-tart shaper (optional but highly recommended to make perfect tarts fast - I got mine from Pampered Chef).
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Blend softened cream cheese, 1/2 cup butter, and flour to form the dough. Chill dough for one hour.
• Spray mini muffin pan(s) with non stick spray (Bakers Joy or Pam).
• Remove dough from refridgerator and roll into 24 1-inch balls.
• Place dough balls into mini-muffin cups and press balls against the bottom and sides to form a mini pie crust. If using the mini-tart shaper, dip shaper in flour and tap off excess then press straight down on the dough ball.
• Beat egg, brown sugar, 1 tbsp butter, vanilla, and salt together.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup chopped pecans into dough cups, filling each cup half full.
• Fill each tart almost full of brown sugar mixture.
• Place a pecan half on top of each tart (or sprinkle with chopped pecans).
• Bake at 325F for 25 minutes, or until set.
• Cool in pans.
• Serve and watch them disappear!

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Add flour; mix well. Refrigerate 1 hour or until chilled.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Divide dough into 24 balls; place 1 in each of 24 miniature muffin pan cups. Press onto bottoms and up sides of cups to form shells. Beat egg in medium bowl. Add sugar and vanilla; mix well. Stir in nuts; spoon into pastry shells, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake 25 min. or until lightly browned. Let stand 5 min. in pans; remove to wire racks. Cool completely. Drizzle with melted chocolate. Let stand until set.