Pastry
- 3 oz of softened cream cheese
- ½ cup of softened butter
- 1 cup flour
Filling
- 1 egg
- 1 T soft butter
- Dash of Salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅔ cup broken pecans
- ¾ cup brown sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend cream cheese and butter until smooth. Stir in flour and then chill for 1 hour. Shape into 1 inch balls and it should create about 2 dozen. Place balls in ungreased mini muffin pans. Gently press dough against bottoms and sides of pan.For the filling: Blend together egg, sugar, butter, vanilla and salt until smooth. Divide ½ of the pecans among pastry cups. Add filling to pastry cups and top with remaining pecans.Cook at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool and remove from pan.
