Tiny Pecan Tarts

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup butter
• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups packed brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• to make pastry: cream butter or margarine and cream cheese. add flour and mix well. make into 48 balls; place one ball in each cup of a mini tart pan. use your fingers or a tart tamper to press out into a tart shell.
• to make filling: break the eggs, but do not beat. add sugar, melted butter, salt, vanilla and pecans. mix well. fill the tart shells. bake at 350 degrees f (180 degrees c) for about 30 minutes or until delicately browned.