Mini Pecan Tarts Recipes

PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy; blend in flour and salt. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Shape into 1-in. balls; press onto the bottom and up the sides of greased mini-muffin cups. , For filling, in a small bowl, beat the egg. Add brown sugar, butter and vanilla; mix well. Stir in pecans. Spoon into tart shells. , Bake at 325° for 25-30 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before carefully removing from pans. Garnish with maraschino cherries if desired.

MINI PECAN TARTS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190ºC).
• Make the filling: Add the sugar and butter to a large bowl and cream with an electric hand mixer until fluffy.
• Add the chopped pecans and fold to combine. Set aside.
• Make the crust: In a large bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
• Add flour and beat to incorporate, then knead the dough with your hands until smooth.
• Roll the dough into 18 small balls and press into the cups of a mini muffin tin. Fill the shells with the pecan filling.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.
• Let the tarts cool in the mini muffin tin for 5 - 10 minutes.
• Remove from the pan and serve warm.
• Enjoy!

TINY PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• 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.

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix together the granulated sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, butter, brown sugar, whiskey, vanilla, salt and eggs in a bowl.
• Divide the chopped pecans among the pie shells. Pour the syrup mixture over the top and put a whole pecan on top of each. Bake until just set, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool.

CARAMEL PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In medium bowl, mix flour, 1/2 cup butter and the powdered sugar. Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. Press each piece in bottom and up side of small muffin cup, 1 3/4x1 inch, ungreased or lined with foil or paper baking cups.
• In medium bowl, mix remaining Tart ingredients. Spoon slightly less than 1 tablespoon mixture into each cup.
• Bake about 20 minutes or until filling is set and crust is light brown. Cool slightly; loosen from cups with tip of knife. Remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In 1-quart saucepan, heat caramels and milk over low heat, stirring constantly, until melted and smooth. Spoon topping onto cooled tarts.

BEST PECAN PIE (TARTS)

Steps:

• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and pour into pie shell.
• Or if you are choosing to make tarts, fill tarts shells to the top.
• Bake at 350 degrees 45 to 50 minutes for the pie and 18 to 20 minutes for the tarts.
• Test with a toothpick, if it comes out dry, the pie/tarts are done.

MINI PECAN PIE TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 12 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Mix white sugar, butter, and flour together in a large bowl until well combined. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and mix well after each addition. Whisk corn syrup and vanilla extract into sugar mixture; fold in pecans.
• Roll pie crust pastry onto a floured work surface; cut into circles using end of a drinking glass or a biscuit cutter. This will make 11 crusts. Roll the scraps into a ball and roll back onto the floured surface; cut 1 more circle. Press each circle into the prepared muffin cups. Repeat with remaining pie crust pastry.
• Spoon pecan mixture, about 2 tablespoons per pie, into pie crust pastry.
• Bake in the preheated oven until set, about 18 minutes. Allow tarts to cool in muffin tins for 5 minutes before loosening edges from sides of tin; let rest 5 minutes more. Transfer tarts to a wire rack to cool completely.

TINY TARTS WITH PECAN OR PUMPKIN FILLING

Steps:

• Tarts:.
• In a mixing bowl, beat margarine or butter and cream cheese until thoroughly blended. Stir in flour. Roll rounded-teaspoonsbul of dough into balls. Press evenly into the bottom and up the sides of mini-muffin cups.
• Fill each pastry with 1 heaping teaspoon of desired filling.
• Filling:.
• In a small mixing bowl, beat ingredients together until mixed well.
• Bake at 325 degree for 25-30 minutes or until pastry is golden and filling is puffed.
• Cool slightly in pan
• Remove from cups and cool completely on a wire rack.