Pecan Tassies

By jasonhewitt

Ingredients

• Pastry:
• 1 pkg cream cheese
• 1/2 stick butter
• 1 C flour
• Filling:
• 1 egg
• 3/4 C brown sugar
• 1 Tbs soft butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• dash salt
• 2/3 C coarsely broken pecans

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Pastry:
Soften cream cheese and butter to room temperature. Blend well, stir in flour. Chill 1 hour. Roll into 2 dozen ½ inch balls. Shape in tiny muffin tins.

Filling:
Beat until smooth. Put pecans in shell. Cover with mixture. Crumble a few pecans before removing from pan.

Bake for 25 minutes. Cool before removing from pan.