Grandma Patsy’s Homemade Pecan Tassies

Ingredients

  • 1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup margarine or real butter
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. Margarine or butter
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla
  • 1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Combine cream cheese, flour and 1 cup butter. Form into 48 small balls.
  2. Mix eggs, sugar, 3 Tbsp. butter, vanilla and pecans.
  3. Press each ball with your fingers into a mini cupcake pan to form crust.
  4. Spoon pecan filling into each crust.
  5. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
  6. Cool 15 to 20 minutes. Run knife around baked crust to remove from pan.

Makes 48 mini pecan pies.