Nut Cups


Serves: 5
Total Calories: 1,148
Yield: 48 cookies

Ingredients

Filling:
2 cups chopped pecans
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons melted butter
------------------------------
Pastry:
2 (3-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter or margarine, softened
2 cups all-purpose flour
powdered sugar (optional)

Directions:

Filling:
Combine all ingredients thoroughly. Set aside.

Pastry:
Combine cream cheese and butter; gradually add flour, mixing with hands. Divide dough into 4 equal parts. Each quarter of the dough will be enough for 12 mini-muffin cups. Divide each quarter into 12 balls and place one ball in each mini-muffin cup. Press with thumb or finger into bottom and around sides to form cup. Fill each with 1 teaspoon nut Filling. Bake at 350° for 15–20 minutes. When cool, you may sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired. Makes 48 cookies that melt in your mouth. They keep well.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 5
Total Calories: 1,148
Calories from Fat: 731

This Nut Cups recipe is from the Best of the Best from the Midwest Cookbook Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


More Recipes from the Best of the Best from the Midwest Cookbook Cookbook:
Prized Peanut Butter Crunch Cookie
Crunchy Cookies
Pride of Iowa Cookies
White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Marie Wallace’s World’s Best Cookies!
Hawthorn Hill Coconut Macaroons
Swedish Jam Shortbread
Double-Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Dutch Handkerchiefs
Lemonade Cookies
Caramel-Filled Chocolate Cookies
Indiana Mud Cookies
Church Windows
Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies
Cherry Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
World’s Best Cookie Bars
Whoopie Pies
Turtle Shells
Indiana Fortune Cookies
Butter Brickle Bars
Chocolate Toffee Crunch Bars
Fabulous Pecan Bars
Crème de Menthe Bars
Chocolate Cherry Bars
Caramel Layer Choco-Squares
Pecan-Caramel Cream Squares
S’Morsels
Pumpkin Pie Squares
Sour Cream Apple Squares
Moon Bars
Marshmallow Brownies
Bravo Brownies
Dump Brownies
Peanut Butter Logs
Buckeyes
Creamed Pecan Nuts
Nut Cups
Elephant Ears
Homemade Mint Patties
Des Moines Fudge
Pumpkin Fudge
Peanut Brittle
Irene’s Divinity
Creamy Caramels




"I must say this is the best recipe software I have ever owned."
-Rob

"Your DVO cookbook software saves me time and money!"
-Mary Ann

"Call it nutrition software, meal planning software, cooking software, recipe manager, or whatever you want. It is the software I use to stay healthy!"
-David

"Your software is the best recipe organizer and menu planner out there!"
-Toni

"Thank you so very much for creating such a wonderful cooking recipe program. I think this is the best recipe program there is!"
-Sarah

"I saw lots of recipe software for PC computers but I was having a hard time finding really good mac recipe software. I'm so glad I discovered Cook'n! It's so nice to have all my recipes in a computer recipe organizer. Cook'n has saved me so much time with meal planning and the recipe nutrition calculator is amazing!!!
-Jill

My favorite is the Cook'n Recipe App.
-Tom