Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Walnut Tarts (Nut Cups)



WALNUT TARTS (NUT CUPS)

DOUGH (make double batch)
2 Cups Flour
8 oz Cream Cheese
2 sticks Butter

Mix ingredients together until dough can be handled into a ball. Wrap in saran wrap & refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.

Shape dough into balls & place into each cup of the un-greased (mini muffin) pan. Press dough evenly against bottom & side of each cup.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

FILLING (makes a lot of filling)
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 stick Butter softened
2 Eggs
1 cup Chopped Walnuts
2 tsp. Vanilla

Beat together butter & brown sugar. Then add egg & vanilla until smooth. Stir in walnuts.
Spoon filling into pastry cups, being careful not to overfill. Bake 20 mins (or more) until pastry is golden brown. Store up to 3 days between waxed paper @ room temperature or freeze up to 3 months.

1 comment:

Valerie said...

These look awesome - I wonder how many points each one has LOL. I'm clearly not over the Christmas cookies yet!!