Busters Recipes

Apricot Pecan Tassies

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter or margarine, cut into pats
6 tablespoons reduced fat cream cheese
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup finely chopped dried apricots
1/3 cup chopped pecans

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Combine the flour, 1/2 cup butter
and cream cheese in a blender container or food processor. Process
until the mixture forms a ball. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, for
15 minutes. combine the brown sugar, egg, 1 tablespoon butter,
vanilla and salt in a medium mixer bowl. Beat at medium-high speed
until smooth. Stir in the apricots and pecans. shape the dough into
twenty-four 1" balls. Press the balls over the bottoms and up the
sides of 24 greased muffin cups. Spoon the apricot mixture into the
prepared muffin cups. Bake for 25 minutes or until filling is set.
Cool in the muffin cups on a wire rack.

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