Sweet Tortilla Tart Shells Food

TART SHELLS

Steps:

• Blend cream cheese and butter together.
• Add flour and mix.
• Chill for at least 30 minutes.
• Divide into 24 balls and press into miniature muffin tins, pushing dough up the sides.
• Spoon filling into pastry shells.
• Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.

MINI QUICHE LORRAINE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Arrange tart shells in 2 muffin tins; line shell each with a layer of pie weights or dried beans.
• Bake shells in the preheated oven until edges of crusts are lightly browned and about 75% cooked, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels; crumble when cooled.
• Divide 1 cup Swiss cheese, bacon, and green onions evenly into the tart shells.
• Whisk eggs, milk, mustard, salt, and black pepper together in a bowl. Ladle egg mixture into each tart shell about 2/3 full. Top each tart with the remaining 1/4 cup Swiss cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until egg is set in the middle of each tart and shells are browned, 25 to 30 minutes.

SWEET TORTILLAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450.
• spread butter on one side of tortilla shells.
• sprinkle sugar and cinammon over buttered shells.
• bake for about 7 minutes.

TORTILLA TART SHELLS

Steps:

• Melt a little butter in a skillet.
• Heat tortilla for 10-15 sec on each side, until softened.
• Press into tart tin.
• Bake for 10 mins at 350F.
• Fill the tart and bake until filling is set.

SWEET TORTILLA TART SHELLS

Steps:

• Blend cream cheese and brown sugar.
• Spread a thin layer on 4 tortillas.
• Top with another tortilla, making a'sandwich'.
• Brush both sides with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
• Place in a 4" tartlet pan.
• Fill the tarts and bake at 350F until filling is set (approx 30 mins).

TART SHELL

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar in a mixer with paddle. Slowly add egg yolks, beaten egg half, and vanilla. Add flour and mix until just combined. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill at least 2 hours. Remove from refrigerator, unwrap and roll on a floured surface into a 3/8-inch thick circle. Drape into an 11 or 12-inch tart pan and press into corners. Line pastry with parchment paper and fill with dried beans or pie weights and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes until light brown. While still warm, remove weights and parchment paper and brush slightly with a beaten egg white, taking care not to use too much and to only brush the inside of the shell. Let tart shell rest at room temperature until ready to fill.;

SWEET TARTLET SHELLS

Steps:

• Cut butter into bits. In a bowl with a pastry blender or in a food processor blend or pulse flour, confectioners' sugar, and salt until combined well and add butter, blending or pulsing until mixture resembles coarse meal. In a small bowl whisk together yolks, ice water, and vanilla until combined well and add to flour mixture, tossing with a fork or pulsing until incorporated. Form dough into a ball and divide into 2 pieces. Form each piece into a ball and flatten to form disks. Chill disks, wrapped separately in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour and up to 1 week.
• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Form 1 dough disk into twenty-four 1-inch balls, keeping remaining disk wrapped and chilled. Press dough balls into bottoms and up sides of twenty-four 1/8-cup mini-muffin cups (about 1 3/4 inches across top and 1 inch deep). Trim any overhang with a knife and prick bottoms of shells with a wooden pick. Chill shells 15 minutes, or until firm. Bake shells in middle of oven 12 minutes, or until golden, and cool in cups on racks. Gently loosen shells with a knife and remove from cups, reserving shells for Chocolate Raspberry Bites .
• Make more shells (for Lemon Meringue Bites ) in same manner but after loosening shells do not remove them from cups. Tartlet shells may be made 2 days ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature.

MINI SHORTBREAD TART SHELLS

Steps:

• Set oven to 300 degrees.
• Prepare mini muffin tins.
• In a bowl mix all ingredients with an electric hand mixer until well blended.
• Pinch off small pieces of dough (do not roll the dough first) using your fingers pat into the muffin tins to form a "shell".
• Prick the bottoms with a fork.
• Bake for about 20 minutes (during the baking time prick bottoms again if the shells puff up.
• Cool and fill as desired.

TART SHELLS

Steps:

• For tart shells, beat butter and cream cheese in small bowl, until smooth.
• Add flour and salt and mix, until a soft dough forms.
• Cover; chill at least 1 hour or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
• Place balls of dough into cups of ungreased mini-muffin pan.
• Dip mini tart shaper in flour; press into dough to form tart shell.
• (Use floured fingers to press dough up sides of muffin cups, if you do not have a tart shaper.) For filling, combine remaining ingredients, except pecans in a small bowl; mix well.
• Sprinkle pecans into each tart shell.
• Fill tart shells evenly with filling mixture.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Remove from muffin pan to cooling rack (loosen edges with a knife, if needed).
• Cool completely.