Description
These little tarts are a great hit – and look beautiful on a holiday tray!
Ingredients
- 2 cups margarine
- 4 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 ½ cups packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Beat margarine and cream cheese with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat in flour
- 1 cup at a time
- until the mixture forms a smooth dough. Roll into small balls
- and press into the bottoms and sides of tart pans or mini muffin pans.
- Mix brown sugar
- eggs
- melted butter
- vanilla
- and salt together in a medium bowl until smooth. Stir in pecans; spoon mixture into each crust until 2/3 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown and filling has puffed up
- about 15 to 18 minutes. Let cool in the pans briefly before carefully transferring them onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 60