Nut Lassies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. butter
1 (3 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
1 c. all-purpose flour
1 egg, well beaten
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 Tbsp. butter, melted
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. chopped pecans

Preparation

Cream softened butter and cream cheese.
Add to flour and cut in until mixture resembles coarse meal.
With lightly floured hands, form into a smooth ball.
Using a rounded teaspoonful of dough press into tiny cupcake pans so as to make a shell.
Combine egg, sugar, butter, vanilla and salt.
Mix well.
Stir in nuts and turn into shells.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 15 minutes, then at 250\u00b0 for 10 minutes.
Cool before removing from pan.
Makes about 2 dozen tarts.
I put the nuts into the shells and spoon the egg mixture on top, instead of putting the nuts into the egg mixture.