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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 24 |
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If you do not know what tassies are, you are missing something wonderful. Basically, tassies are cookies baked in tiny muffin tins. The dough is usually made from butter, flour and cream cheese, but this too can vary with graham cracker crumbs, pie dough or a sour cream dough. Read more . The first known recipe in American cooking were the ones made with the cream cheese dough and a pecan pie-type filling. Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened |
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened |
1 cup all-purpose flour |
1 large egg |
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar |
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract |
1/8 teaspoon salt |
1/3 cup finely chopped cranberries |
3 tablespoons finely chopped pecans |
Directions:
1. For pastry, in a medium mixing bowl, beat the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium to high speed until combined.
2. Stir in flour until just mixed.
3. Chill pastry for 1 hour.
4. Shape the pastry dough into 24 balls.
5. Place in an ungreased 1 3/4-inch muffin cups.
6. Press pastry evenly against the bottom and up the side of each muffin cup.
7. For filling, in another medium mixing bowl beat together the egg, brown sugar, vanilla and salt until until smooth.
8. Stir in the cranberries and pecans.
9. Spoon the filling into the pastry-lined muffin cups.
10. Bake in a 325*F oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until pastry is golden brown.
11. Cool in muffin cups on wire racks.
12. Remove tassies from muffin cups by running a knife around the edges.
13. Makes 24 tassies.
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