Tassies

Ingredients:

Dough:

2 cups flour

1 cup unsalted butter
1 8oz pkg. cream cheese

Filling:

3 T. butter, melted

2 cups light brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3 large eggs, beaten
1 cup chopped pecans
¼ tsp. salt

 Directions:

Cream flour, softened cream cheese, and butter.  Wrap in plastic and chill.  Shape into balls, about a teaspoon each.  Place balls into miniature muffin tins (greased), and press dough onto bottom and sides of cups.   Filling: stir all ingredients together in a mixing bowl until just smooth.  Fill each cup, just short of the top, with filling.  Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20 minutes.  Cool.  Pop out of tins.  Store in refrigerator.

Note:  this is an American recipe, but Mom used to make them and taught me to make them, too. A few years ago, I purchased a handy implement from Pampered Chef that smashes down the doughballs into cups.  I tend to make them at Christmastime, but they are yummy all year round!