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    Christmas: Chocolate and Pecan Tassies

    Source of Recipe


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    List of Ingredients


    • 5 Tbsp butter, softened, plus 1 tablespoon melted butter
    • 4 ounces light cream cheese
    • 1 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1 Tbsp confectioners' sugar
    • ¼ tsp salt
    • ¾ cup light brown sugar
    • 1/3 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
    • 2/3 cup chopped pecans


    Instructions


    1. Mix softened butter and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth. Blend in flour, a bit at a time, confectioners' sugar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Form dough into a disk. Cover in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 3 hours.

    2. Heat oven to 325° F.
      Divide dough into 24 balls; press into two 12-cup mini-muffin tins, pushing dough up over edges. Refrigerate.

    3. Mix brown sugar, chocolate, egg, melted butter, vanilla and remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt in a bowl until combined. Divide half the pecans among muffin cups; top with brown sugar mixture. Sprinkle remaining pecans on top. Bake 20 minutes, or until dough is lightly golden around edges. Let sit 5 minutes. Run tip of knife around cup edges to loosen. Remove when cool enough to handle; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

      Makes 24 tartlets.



 

 

 


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