Tea Time Tassies

By lisapearce

Ingredients

• 3 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup margarine or butter room temperature
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp butter
• dash salt
• 2/3 cup coarsely broken walnuts

Preparation

Step 1

Blend cream cheese and butter, stir in flour. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 325.

Shape dough into 24 balls then place 1 in each cup of a mini muffin pan, treated with cooking spray. Press dough into cup forming a shell.

In a small bowl with mixer at medium speed beat together 1 tsp butter, egg, brown sugar, vanilla and salt until smooth. Divide nuts in half. Spread 1/2 in bottoms of shells. Top with 1 tsp filling in each shell and sprinkle remaining nuts on top.

Bake for 35 minutes.