Nutty Cream Cheese Tassies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat sweet butter and cream cheese together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Gradually stir flour into butter until forming a dough. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place into 3/4-inch muffin cups. Press dough into the bottom and sides of each muffin cup.
• Mix brown sugar, walnuts, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of walnut filling into the dough cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges of cookies are lightly browned and filling is cooked through, about 25 minutes.

Steps:

• In medium bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes or until well blended. On low speed, beat in flour until soft dough forms. Cover; refrigerate 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Shape dough into 24 (1-inch) balls. Press in bottoms and up sides of 24 ungreased mini muffin cups. In small bowl, mix brown sugar, honey, melted butter, salt and egg with whisk. Stir in walnuts and pistachios. Spoon filling evenly into dough-lined cups, filling three-fourths full.
• Bake 22 to 24 minutes or until filling is set and edges of cups are golden brown. Immediately run knife around edges of cookies to loosen. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks.

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup butter and cream cheese in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add flour gradually, beating at low speed. Shape mixture into 48 balls and place on a baking sheet. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease the cups of a mini-muffin pan. Press 1 chilled dough ball into each cup and shape into a tart shell.
• Whisk brown sugar, eggs, 2 tablespoons butter, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl. Stir in 1 1/4 cups pecans. Spoon mixture into tart shells. Top with the remaining pecans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges of cookie shell are delicately brown, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Gently remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth; gradually beat in flour. Refrigerate, covered, 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. Shape dough into 1-in. balls; press evenly onto bottoms and up sides of greased mini muffin cups., For filling, in a small bowl, mix egg, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and salt until blended. Stir in 1/3 cup pecans; spoon into pastries. Sprinkle with remaining pecans., Bake 15-20 minutes or until edges are golden and filling is puffed. Cool in pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Freeze option: Freeze cooled cookies, layered between waxed paper, in freezer containers. To use, thaw in covered containers.

Steps:

• Beat flour, butter and cream cheese in bowl.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Roll into 1" balls.
• Press each ball into greased wells of small muffin tin, forming cups; set aside.
• Bring remaining ingredients to a boil.
• Pour hot mixture, 1 Tbsp at a time, into cups.
• Bake in 400° oven for 12-15 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325F.
• Pastry:.
• Cream together cream cheese and butter.
• Blend in flour.
• Shape into small balls. In miniature cupcake pan press dough on bottom and sides.
• Filling:.
• Beat togehter eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla and salt until smooth.
• Take 3/4 Cup of nuts and divide into pastry lined cups.
• Add egg mixture on top of nuts in pastry shells.
• Top each with the remaining 3/4 Cup of nuts.
• Bake 25-30 Minutes.

Steps:

• Make shells:
• Follow recipe for basic butter cookies to make dough, then divide dough in half. Divide 1 half (keep remaining dough chilled, covered) into 24 pieces (about 1 1/2 teaspoons each) and form into 1-inch balls. Press each ball evenly onto bottom and up side of an ungreased mini-muffin cup to form a pastry shell (use a piece of plastic wrap to prevent dough from sticking to your fingers). Chill until ready to fill.
• Make filling:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
• Whisk together brown sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, and salt until blended, then stir in pine nuts. Fill each pastry shell with about 2 teaspoons filling.
• Bake tassies until filling is bubbling and pastry is golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Run a sharp thin knife around edge of each pastry, then transfer pan (with cookies) to a rack to cool 10 minutes. Remove tassies from pans and transfer to rack to cool completely. Make more tassies with remaining dough and filling.