Description
My grandma used to make these every Christmas. She passed the torch to me, and now my family asks me to make these every Christmas. They are delectable.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
Instructions
- Beat 1 cup butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Add flour gradually
- beating at low speed. Shape mixture into 48 small 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 2 mini-muffin pans. Press a dough ball into each cup in mini muffin tins to make pastry shells.
- Whisk brown sugar
- eggs
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- vanilla extract
- and salt together in a bowl. Stir in 1 1/4 cups pecans; spoon mixture into tart shells until 2/3 full. Top with remaining pecans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden 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.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins
Servings: 48