Chocolate and Pecan Tartlets
"When the sweet tooth strikes and you need to keep the scales happy, try these! Easy, elegant and full of flavor, two of these tasty, nutty nibbles are only 225 calories.
Note: times listed do not include refrigeration or cooling times."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
24 tartlets
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened, plus
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 4 ounces light cream cheese
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup light-brown sugar
- 1⁄3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2⁄3 cup chopped pecans
directions
- Mix softened butter and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth.
- Blend in flour, a bit at a time, confectioners' sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt.
- Form dough into a disk.
- Cover in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 3 hours.
- Heat oven to 325°F
- Divide dough into 24 balls; press into two 12-cup mini muffin tins, pushing dough up over edges.
- Refrigerate.
- Mix brown sugar, chocolate, egg, melted butter, vanilla and remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt in a bowl until combined.
- Divide half the pecans among muffin cups; top with brown sugar mixture; sprinkle remaining pecans on top.
- Bake 20 minutes or until dough is lightly golden around edges.
- Let sit 5 minutes.
- Run tip of knife around cup edges to loosen.
- Remove when cool enough to handle; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
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I am...
~a mother of 2 kids (19 and 22) who are extremely picky eaters. The mere mention of "healthy" sends them running in the opposite direction. They prefer the creamy, cheesy, fried stuff that they weren't brought up on!
~a wife of a wonderful man who fights an expanding waistline and will lovingly eat most anything I set before him. Everything is 5 stars to him. :) He's the easiest customer a cook could ask for!
~a teacher who tends to reach for comfort foods to relieve stress. I am a middle school reading specialist. The miracles I see on a daily basis keeps me going! But it's also stressful, so keep me away from the cookie jar! I really have to fight off the sugary, fat-laden stuff that has no worth beyond the momentary comfort in my mouth.
~and I'm also a daughter who was brought up on home cooked meals back when calories meant nothing and taste was everything! That is an idea built into my system that's hard to shake! My mother raised 8 kids (I'm #7) on her home-cooking and I always teased her that she didn't raise a single skinny kid! I luckily inherited her great love of cooking and baking. (I miss you Mom!)
~finally, I'm "mom" to the best Bichon in the world. He is Quincy, our kid in a dogsuit. He's 13 years old, but still a puppy to us.
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