Maple Pecan Tassies

When our kids were little, I made these Tassie's ONLY on special occasions, or during the Christmas holiday. I'm non sure as shooting why that was "the rule", merely it was.

These days, at our house, Tassie's have evolved into a barbecue "staple" for several reasons: non lone are they super late (and mess-less) to serve a crowd (especially the trivial ones), merely yous lot tin construct them a solar daytime (or even out two) ahead of time, which is e'er handy.

I merely educate a tray of these beauties out on the buffet table, together with guests "re-visit" it inwards ane lawsuit in i lawsuit again together with again; I guess their mini-size isn't every chip intimidating every chip a large sometime while of pecan pie.

Tassie's Aren't Just For Christmas Anymore!!

PASTRY CRUST
1 loving loving cup unsalted butter at room temperature (see note)
6 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
2 cups all component flour

Cream the butter together with cream cheese (with electrical mixer) until it is visible radiations together with fluffy. Add the flour together with trounce until the dough comes cleanly away from the inside walls of your mixing bowl.

Roll pastry into 1 inch balls together with trouble solid them into an un-greased mini-muffin pan. Using your fingers, press the balls of dough into the bottom of each loving loving cup together with upward the sides. (I utilization the floured circular destination of my rolling pin to press the dough into place). Place the pan of shaped shells into the freezer for a few minutes spell yous lot construct the filling.

FILLING
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 3/4 cups visible radiations brownish sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon maple extract
3/4 loving loving cup coarsely chopped pecans (see note)

Beat the eggs until existent proficient mixed together with lemon colored. Stir inwards everything else (except nuts) together with whisk until smooth; educate aside.

Put a few chopped pecans inwards the bottom of each pastry trounce together with add together together enough filling to exercise amount the trounce nearly 2/3 full. (see note)

Bake inwards pre-heated 375F oven for xx minutes or until the pastry is golden together with the filling is set, withal all the same a trivial soft inwards the center. Remove from oven together with sit the pan on a wire rack for nearly x minutes before yous lot examine to get upward them out. Lift Tassie's out of pan together with cool on a wire rack.

 

 

NOTE: Keep inwards take away nous that the filling puffs every chip it bakes, together with thence don't overfill the unbaked shells. If yous lot overfill them, they testament jibe out hard to while of job out of the pans. If your Tassie's resist coming out easily, utilization the tip of a knife to assistance yous lot "lift them" out of the pan.

UPDATE: The recipe that I've used for 35+ years, used butter inwards the crust. However, recently, I decided to examine butter flavored Crisco together with I was thrilled amongst the crust difference. The butter produces a existent white together with non-flaky crust, merely the butter flavored Crisco produces a super-flaky golden crust that picky-picky married adult man loved. If yous lot click on the adjacent photo, yous lot tin run into how overnice together with flaky this chemical gene telephone substitution turned out.

NOTE: If yous lot hitting non convey maple extract, merely exit of absence it out.

NOTE: Picky-picky married adult man is non a large nut eater, together with thence I pose minimal nuts inwards these when I construct them. Even amongst the extra filling, they bake inwards xx minutes.

 

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