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Nut Cookie Tartlets


"Small pie like cookies with a nut filling. Mini muffin tins may be used. These can also be frozen"
Original recipe yield: 40 cookies.
Servings:
20

INGREDIENTS:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese
  • 1 cup butter
  • 6 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS:

  1. To make Pastry: Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add the 6 tablespoons white sugar, 2 cups flour and blend well.
  2. Shape into balls about 1 inch in diameter (flour palms of hands to facilitate rolling). Place ball in greased tartlet pan and flatten. Should fill pan by 3/4.
  3. To Make Filling: Mix together vanilla, egg, brown sugar, and chopped nuts.
  4. After flattening ball in tartlet tin make a thumb print in center and fill with a full 1/2 teaspoon of nut filling.
  5. Bake in a 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 17 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before removing from pan.