Apple Walnut Tassies Recipes

APPLE TASSIES

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and cream cheese. Gradually add flour. It should form a moist dough. Portion into approximately teaspoon balls into mini muffin tin. Flatten to fit tin. (I really, really recommend the Pampered Chef mini tin and especially the wooden mini tart shaper. It makes this process super fast.)
• In a medium sauce pan combine apples, sugar, and cinnamon. Cook for 5-7 minutes until the apple begin to soften. Add flour and mixture will thicken slightly.
• Add filling with a spoon to each tart shell and avoid apples overflowing sides of pan. (they will stick to the pan and make it harder to release the tarts.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 20-22 minutes. Let rest for a couple minutes and release with a teaspoon. You can either drizzle them with a caramel sauce, dust with powdered sugar or you could even top with a crumb topping prior to baking.

WALNUT TASSIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, blend butter, cream cheese and flour. Chill. Divide dough into fourths; divide each fourth into 12 small balls. Press each ball into miniature tart or muffin pans. For filling, combine all ingredients except cherries; fill tarts three-fourths full. Place on baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 25-30 minutes or until crust is browned and filling set. Cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pans. If desired, garnish with candied cherries.

APPLE PIE TASSIES

Steps:

• Make the dough: Beat the butter and cream cheese in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until creamy, about 5 minutes. Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in the confectioners? sugar and salt until fluffy, about 1 more minute. Gradually beat in the flour until the dough comes together.
• Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and knead a few times until smooth. Divide the dough in half and roll each half into a 12-inch-long rope. Cut each rope into 12 pieces. Roll the pieces into balls and put the balls in a 24-cup mini-muffin tin. Use your thumb to press the dough into the bottom and up the sides of the cups, making the bottom slightly thinner than the sides. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, make the filling: Toss the apples, lemon juice, granulated sugar, apple pie spice and vanilla in a medium bowl. Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the apple mixture and stir to coat. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 20 minutes. There should be some liquid left in the skillet; if not, stir in 1/4 cup water.
• Mix the cornstarch and 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl; stir into the apple mixture and bring to a boil. Cook until thick and bubbling, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Transfer to a bowl to cool, about 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Divide the apple mixture evenly among the muffin cups. Bake, rotating the pan halfway through, until the tassies are golden, about 30 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes in the pan, then use an offset spatula to remove the tassies and transfer to a rack to cool completely. They will crisp as they cool.

APPLE WALNUT TASSIES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350°F.
• Unfold the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Roll the pastry sheet into an 18x9-inch rectangle. Cut into 18 (3-inch) squares. Press into 18 (2 1/2-inch) muffin-pan cups.
• Beat the egg, brown sugar, butter and vanilla extract in a medium bowl with a fork or whisk until the mixture is smooth. Stir in the apples and walnuts. Spoon the apple mixture into the muffin-pan cups.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until the pastries are golden brown. Let the pastries cool in the pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove the pastries from the pans and let cool completely on wire racks. Sprinkle with the confectioners' sugar and serve with the ice cream, if desired.

WALNUT TASSIES

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.

WALNUT TASSIES

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.

APPLE CRANBERRY WALNUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.
• In a separate bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, oil, sour cream and vanilla until smooth.
• Stir in apple, cranberries and walnuts.
• Fold into dry ingredients.
• Bake at 350°F, for 20 to 25 minutes.