Name: Mini pecan tarts
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1/2 recipe of sweet pastry or ready-made; 1 cup brown sugar; 100 gram butter; 2 tablespoon cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 1 1/2 cup pecans, roughly chopped

Mini pecan tarts

This scrumptious recipe for mini pecan tarts is perfect when you want to indulge in a bite-sized sweet treat. Serve up for morning or afternoon tea

Makes 24

Prep

20M

Cook

20M

Total

40M

This recipe first appeared in Food magazine.

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Ingredients

1/2 recipe of sweet pastry or ready-made

1 cup brown sugar

100 gram butter

2 tablespoon cream

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 1/2 cup pecans, roughly chopped

Method

1.Preheat the oven to 170ºC. Spray 2 x 12-hole mini muffin pans generously with oil.

2.Take walnut-sized balls of the pastry and toss them in flour. Press the pastry balls into the base and sides of the prepared pans (if using ready-made pastry, use a 6cm round cutter). Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

3.To prepare the caramel filling, place the brown sugar, butter, cream and vanilla essence in a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring until combined. Set aside to cool a little. When the caramel is cool, stir in the beaten egg.

4.Fill the chilled pastry cases with chopped pecans. Pour over the caramel filling.

5.Bake for about 20 minutes until the pastry is golden and firm. Leave the tarts to cool in the pans before transferring them to a cooling rack.