Classic Pecan Tassie

Almost everyone has their ain favorite version of a pecan tassie, the classic Christmas treat. However, for those who don't, this is a smashing one. Pecan tassies are a seize alongside teeth size pecan pie inward a cream cheese pastry crust. I used to brand them alone at Christmas, simply they bring cash inward one's chips i of Hubby's favorites, then I brand them throughout the year. This recipe makes four dozen together with freezes well.


PASTRY CRUST
1 loving cup unsalted butter at room temperature
6 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
2 cups all utilisation flour

Cream the butter together with cream cheese (with electrical mixer) until it is calorie-free together with fluffy. Add the flour together with musical rhythm out until the dough comes cleanly away from the within walls of your mixing bowl. Flatten dough into a disk, wind inward plastic together with chill for i lx minutes (I NEVER chill this dough, it is a dream to function with).

FILLING
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
1 3/4 cups calorie-free brownish sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup coarsely chopped pecans

Beat the eggs until rattling good mixed together with lemon colored. Stir inward everything else.

ASSEMBLY
Roll pastry into 1 inch balls together with house them into an ungreased mini-muffin pan. Using your fingers, press the balls of dough into the bottom of each loving cup together with upwards the sides. (I utilisation the floured terminate of my rolling pivot to press the dough into place). Put a few chopped pecans inward the bottom of each pastry shell together with overstep alongside most a tablespoon of filling. (see note)


 Bake inward pre-heated 375F oven for 15-20 minutes or until the pastry is golden together with the filling is set, yet withal a footling soft inward the center. Remove from oven together with sit down the pan on a wire rack for most 10 minutes earlier y'all attempt to elevator them out. Lift tassies out of pan together with cool on a wire rack.

NOTE: Keep inward heed that the filling puffs every bit it bakes, then don't overfill the unbaked shells. If y'all overfill them, they volition live difficult to exit of the pans. For those stubborn tassies, utilisation the tip of a knife to assistance y'all elevator them out of the pan.

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Saucisses De Toulouse Aux Lentilles Du Puy Et Courge

Image
Ingredients: ane tablespoon butter ane tablespoon olive oil ane lb saucisses de Toulouse(French Garlic sausages*) four cloves garlic, minced ane onion, diced ii crookneck squash ane stem celery, diced ane shallot, minced ane bay leaf ane teaspoon bounding main salt ½ teaspoon freshly reason dark pepper ane 1/3 loving cup du Puy lentils four cups chicken stock Directions: Heat crude oil in addition to butter inwards a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the vegetables. Sauté until the mash starts to soften in addition to the onions are translucent, well-nigh 5-10 minutes. Add the bay leaf, salt, pepper, lentils, in addition to stock. Cover in addition to simmer for well-nigh forty minutes or until the lentils are soft. Meanwhile, grill, broil or sauté the sausage until fully cooked. Serve the sausage on a bed of warm lentils. *I used these Toulouse Garlic sausages. My thoughts: Excuse my French if the championship is incorrect! I'm relying on high
Read more

Indian Tacos

Image
Ingredients: for the taco meat 1 lb the world bison 1 onion, diced three cloves garlic, minced fifteen oz pinto beans, drained 10 oz canned diced tomato plant amongst greenish chile iv oz canned fire-roasted diced Hatch greenish chiles 1 tablespoon hot Mexican-style chili powder ii teaspoons minced fresh basil 1 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon the world jalapeno for the tyke bread ii cups water ii packages dry out yeast iv tablespoons butter ii tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt v 1/2 cups flour to serve: shredded abrupt cheddar shredded iceburg lettuce diced tomatoes optional: sour cream too avocado Directions: for the tyke bread: Whisk the flour too yeast togehter inwards a large bowl. Place the sugar, salt, H2O too butter inwards a modest sauce pan too rut until almost boiling. Allow to cool slightly. Pour over the flour too yeast too mix amongst a dough claw until a smooth, non also mucilaginous ball of dough forms. If the dough is real sticky, slo
Read more

Mango Marinated Grilled Boneless Pork Ribs

Image
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lb boneless pork ribs three mangos, cubed (I used Ataulfo) 1/4 loving cup olive oil 1/4 loving cup white vino vinegar 1 tablespoon ginger juice 1 tablespoon pepper sherry salt freshly reason dark pepper Directions: Place all ingredients inwards a resealable purse or marinating container. Kind of squish it a flake as well as hence the mango pause down. Refrigerate for upwards to half-dozen hours. Prep grill. Grease or spray alongside grilling nonstick spray the grill rack. Place the pork on the rack as well as laid upwards over depression rut until fully cooked. If desired, house the mango inwards a grill wok as well as grill that every bit well. My thoughts: As y'all may accept guessed, I dearest pairing mango alongside pork. While I don't similar overly sweetness things every bit chief dishes, mangos accept a sweetness tartness that tin forcefulness out grip savory flavors. Pork has a lite natural sweetness that I intend does good alongside f
Read more