When you want a little taste of Pecan Pie make these yummy, bite-size desserts. The first recipe comes from a sister’s mother-in-law. I do not have the author for the second recipe but it looks real good. See also my recipe for Pecan Pie.
Pecan Pie Tarts
Crust:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
Cream together the flour, butter and cream cheese until smooth. Refrigerate dough several hours or overnight.
Filling:
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tbsp. butter, softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2/3 cup pecans, chopped
- 1/8 tsp. cinnamon (optional – I added)
To make the filling, combine all of the ingredients and stir in the pecans.
Roll out chilled dough and cut into 3-inch rounds. Fit dough into mini greased tartlet tins. Spoon filling into crusts until each is 3/4 full. Bake in a 350°F oven for 25 minutes or until filling is set.
When cool, remove tarts from tins. Makes 24 tarts.
Comment: I used the precooked shortbread tarts you can buy in 2018 and they worked fine. Just cook them for the same amount of time.
Pecan Pie Tarts with a Karo/Pecan Filling
Crust:
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 (3 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1-3/4 cups flour
In a bowl, combine butter, sugar and cream cheese; beat until fluffy. Add the egg just to combine. Slowly add the flour and beat at low speed. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls and press into bottom and up two-thirds of each cup. This recipe makes 36.
Filling:
- 1/3 cup light corn syrup
- 1/3 cup dark corn syrup
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp. butter, melted
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 3/4 cup pecans, chopped
Combine above ingredients except for the pecans. Spoon mixture into each prepared crust and top with the pecans. Bake for 20 minutes in a preheated 350°F oven or until lightly browned.
This is certainly a new pie crust for me. I didn’t know I could make one using cream cheese. I would love to try and taste it. I have bookmarked. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a wonderful week!
Thanks Liz – these tarts are yummy. See also my post Tart Shell Doughs for a couple more recipes. Winter is coming here this weekend 🙂
I have just been shovelling snow….phew! Let me have a look at the Tart Shell Dough. Winter is really here….snow the whole week for us. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’ll get used to it as time goes by. Have a lovely week!
Not much snow here – we seem to miss all of the storms but I am sure our time will come 🙂
Ha ha Good luck, when the time comes. By then I will have gotten used to it and will be taking long walks on the snow.
Aunt JU Ju thank you so much for the tarts there were soo yummy!!!!!!!!!!!! all my friends got to have leftovers everything is practically gone!!!!!
They are delicious for sure – glad you and your friends enjoyed them 🙂
Following our chat re pecan pies, I’ve just checked these out. These are great options for a mini size of the real thing! 🙂
I don’t remember these tarts as being so sweet but they do have a lot of sugar which you were trying to get away from. All recipes can be adjusted, I guess 🙂
I did notice the amount of sugar, but sometimes customers ask for the “real thing”. 🙂