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Tea Time Tassie's

Gail M. V.
This recipe was my moms, Carmela Mudre. Throughout the 1960's she was a Nichols School Room Mother for me and my brother Gary. She proudly served these Tea Time Tassies at PTA Events.
Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 small pkg cream cheese
  • ¼ lb oleo
  • 1 cup flour

FILLING:

  • ¾ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp melted butter
  • cup chopped nuts
  • Small cupcake tins to hold 24 Tassies
  • 24 Small colorful cupcake liners

Instructions
 

  • Mix together cream cheese, oleo,flour & sugar. Roll into 24 balls.
  • Place on cookie sheet in the 'fridge for 1 hour.
  • Take out and let stand for a few minutes

FILLING

  • Mix together the light brown sugar, egg,salt,vanilla,melted butter & nuts.
  • Let stand a few minutes. Take each ball and press into the 24 ungreased tins to form a cup
  • Scoop out a teaspoon size of the filling and place that into each cup
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
  • *Note- after 20 minutes pick up each Tassie to see if they are brown enough
  • When cool, place each Tassie in a small colorful cupcake liner to serve.