Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts
22 July, 2009

Pecan Tassies

People in Texas love pecans, especially when they're involved in pies. Pecans, puh-cons, grow on trees and are quite common in the southern United States, and where I live, they're everywhere. I can hardly remember living in a house that wasn't some how adjacent to a pecan tree, and every fall we would collect them and have then taken to a professional sheller to be then frozen and used throughout the year.

I love pecans. I love pecan pie. So I made tiny ones.


Pecan Tassies (tarts)


1 cup Lyle's golden syrup

3 eggs beaten

2 tbsp butter melted

pinch salt

tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans chopped

filo dough (or shortcrust)


Cream butter eggs, salt, and vanilla. Mix in syrup. Take muffin tin and cut circles approximately 3 layers thick and place into each muffin tin, fill with pie filling to 3/4 full. Add chopped pecans on top. Place in oven at 350 F until fork comes out clean. Let set for 20 minutes.