Mini Pecan Tarts Food

TINY PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• To Make Pastry: Cream butter or margarine and cream cheese. Add flour and mix well. Make into 48 balls; place one ball in each cup of a mini tart pan. Use your fingers or a tart tamper to press out into a tart shell.
• To Make Filling: Break the eggs, but do not beat. Add sugar, melted butter, salt, vanilla and pecans. Mix well. Fill the tart shells. Bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for about 30 minutes or until delicately browned.

PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease 8 3-inch tart tins.
• Roll out pastry and cut 8 5-inch circles. Fit pastry circles into greased tart tins.
• In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, butter or margarine, corn syrup, and vanilla extract. Mix well, then stir in pecans. Pour an equal amount of mixture into each pastry-lined tart tin.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes until pastry is golden brown and filling is set.

MINI PECAN TARTS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190ºC).
• Make the filling: Add the sugar and butter to a large bowl and cream with an electric hand mixer until fluffy.
• Add the chopped pecans and fold to combine. Set aside.
• Make the crust: In a large bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
• Add flour and beat to incorporate, then knead the dough with your hands until smooth.
• Roll the dough into 18 small balls and press into the cups of a mini muffin tin. Fill the shells with the pecan filling.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.
• Let the tarts cool in the mini muffin tin for 5 - 10 minutes.
• Remove from the pan and serve warm.
• Enjoy!

PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy; blend in flour and salt. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Shape into 1-in. balls; press onto the bottom and up the sides of greased mini-muffin cups. , For filling, in a small bowl, beat the egg. Add brown sugar, butter and vanilla; mix well. Stir in pecans. Spoon into tart shells. , Bake at 325° for 25-30 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before carefully removing from pans. Garnish with maraschino cherries if desired.

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix together the granulated sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, butter, brown sugar, whiskey, vanilla, salt and eggs in a bowl.
• Divide the chopped pecans among the pie shells. Pour the syrup mixture over the top and put a whole pecan on top of each. Bake until just set, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool.

BEST PECAN PIE (TARTS)

Steps:

• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and pour into pie shell.
• Or if you are choosing to make tarts, fill tarts shells to the top.
• Bake at 350 degrees 45 to 50 minutes for the pie and 18 to 20 minutes for the tarts.
• Test with a toothpick, if it comes out dry, the pie/tarts are done.

PECAN NUT TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180°c/350°c/gasmark4.
• Roll out the pastry and use to line 6, 10cm/4in tartlet tins.
• Divide the pecan nut halfs between the pastry cases.
• Combine the eggs with the butter and add the golden syrup and vanilla essence
• Sift over the caster sugar and flour, and carefully blend.
• Fill the pastry cases with the mixture and leave until the the nuts rise to the surface.
• Bake for 35 -40 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before turning onto a wire rack.
• Enjoy :)

MINI MAPLE PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Place prepared tart shells on cookie sheet.
• In a small bowl, add egg, heavy cream, melted butter, maple syrup, raisins, chopped pecans, salt, and coffee liqueur; stir well.
• Pour mixture into prepared mini tart shells.
• Place one whole pecan in the middle top of each tart.
• Bake at 450°F degrees, on middle oven rack for 10 minutes; turn heat to 350°F degrees and bake a further 7 or 8 minutes.