Tea Time Tassies

By dorchuk

Ingredients

• 1 3 oz pkg cream cheese
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sifted flour
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 T soft butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• dash of salt
• 2/3 coarsely broken pecans

Preparation

Step 1

Cheese pastry:
Let cream cheese and 1/2 cup butter soften at room temperature.
Blend
Stir in flour
Chill slightly about 1 hour, shape in 2 dozen one inch balls
Place in tiny ungreased 1 3/4 muffin cups.
Press dough on bottom and sides of cup.

Pecan filling:
Beat together egg, sugar, 1 T butter, vanilla and salt just until smooth.
Divide half of pecans among pastry lines cups.
Add egg mixture and top with remaining pecans
Bake in slow oven, 325 degrees for 25 minutes or until filling is set
Cool
Remove from pan