Shelly's Recipe

PISTACHIO FUDGE CUPS

Category: Tarts

Crust
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 (3 oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup confectioners sugar
2 tbsp. unsweetened baking cocoa
1/2 tsp vanilla

Pistachio Fudge Filling
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup chopped pistachio nuts
1/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
2 tbsp. butter, softened
1 egg

Heat oven to 350. In large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining crust ingredients until well blended. Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. Press each piece in bottom and up side of ungreased mini muffin cup.

In medium bowl, mix all filling ingredients until well blended. Spoon about 2 tsp filling into each cup. Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when filling is touched lightly. Cool slightly, loosen from muffin cups with tip of knife. Remove from pan to cooling rack.