Description
These bite-sized pecan pies are a festive addition to any dessert spread or cookie platter.
Ingredients
Scale
Crust
- 3 ounces of cream cheese
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup flour
Filling
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp butter, melted
- 3/4 –1 cup chopped pecans.
Instructions
Crust
- Mix the cream cheese and the butter.
- Add 1 cup flour and knead the dough by hand or mix it until it is smooth.
- Cover it with plastic wrap and let it chill for one hour so that it is easier to work with.
Filling
- Mix the filling ingredients.
- Form 2 dozen 1-inch balls of dough (roughly 3/8-ounce each).
- Press each dough ball into a greased mini muffin tin, making a shallow indentation but being careful not to poke through to the pan.
- Fill each crust with the pecan filling and bake the pecan tassies at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes until the mini pecan pies are golden brown and starting to bubble.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins