Walnut Tassies Recipes

NUTTY CREAM CHEESE TASSIES

Steps:

• In medium bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes or until well blended. On low speed, beat in flour until soft dough forms. Cover; refrigerate 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Shape dough into 24 (1-inch) balls. Press in bottoms and up sides of 24 ungreased mini muffin cups. In small bowl, mix brown sugar, honey, melted butter, salt and egg with whisk. Stir in walnuts and pistachios. Spoon filling evenly into dough-lined cups, filling three-fourths full.
• Bake 22 to 24 minutes or until filling is set and edges of cups are golden brown. Immediately run knife around edges of cookies to loosen. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks.

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.

GRANDMA'S PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup butter and cream cheese in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add flour gradually, beating at low speed. Shape mixture into 48 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 the cups of a mini-muffin pan. Press 1 chilled dough ball into each cup and shape into a tart shell.
• Whisk brown sugar, eggs, 2 tablespoons butter, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl. Stir in 1 1/4 cups pecans. Spoon mixture into tart shells. Top with the remaining pecans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges of cookie shell are delicately 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.

PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth; gradually beat in flour. Refrigerate, covered, 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. Shape dough into 1-in. balls; press evenly onto bottoms and up sides of greased mini muffin cups., For filling, in a small bowl, mix egg, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and salt until blended. Stir in 1/3 cup pecans; spoon into pastries. Sprinkle with remaining pecans., Bake 15-20 minutes or until edges are golden and filling is puffed. Cool in pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Freeze option: Freeze cooled cookies, layered between waxed paper, in freezer containers. To use, thaw in covered containers.

BESS LONDON'S PECAN TASSIES

Steps:

• With an electric mixer, beat the 1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese until smooth. Add the flour and beat until fully combined. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 24-cup mini-muffin pan with cooking spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the melted butter, egg, brown sugar, vanilla and salt until smooth. Set aside.
• Shape the chilled dough into 24 balls, about 1 inch in diameter. Press each ball into a cup of the muffin pan, spreading evenly and up the sides, then spoon 1 teaspoon of the pecans into each muffin cup. Fill each cup with the egg mixture until evenly distributed, about 1 teaspoon in each. Bake until the filling is set, about 25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, and then remove from the muffin pan.

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 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.

TEA TIME TASTIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Blend softened cream cheese and 1/2 cup butter or margarine. Stir in 1 cup flour and mix well.
• Shape 2 dozen-1 inch balls. Place in tiny ungreased muffin pans and press onto the bottom and sides of tins.
• To Make Filling: Beat egg, sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, salt, vanilla and nuts until smooth. Fill pastry cups and bake until filling is set, about 25 minutes.

WALNUT TASSIES

Steps:

• 1. Mix all the dough ingredients, blend well & chill.
• 2. Break of little pieces & fill small cupcake cups with fingers.
• 3. Fill each cup with the filling.
• 4. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.