Chocolate Peanut Tassies

CHOCOLATE PEANUT TASSIES

I made some of these yesterday morning, they are really yummy, little mini filled muffins, with chocolate and peanut filling and a chocolate drizzle too.

CRUST 1/2 cup unsalted butter 3 oz brick cream cheese 1 cup plus 2 tbs flour 1/4 tsp salt FILLING 1 oz unsweetened baking chocolate 1 1/2 tbs unsalted butter 2/3 cup brown sugar 1 large egg 2 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup finely chopped unsalted dry roasted peanuts

2 oz semisweet baking chocolate

CRUST---Beat butter and cream cheese in a bowl to blend. Beat in flour and salt to combine. Refrigerate covered 1 hour or until firm. Heat oven to 350 degrees.*

FILLING---Microwave chocolate and butter in a bowl 2 min. Stir until smooth. Stir in sugar, egg and vanilla, then peanuts until combined. Roll level tablespoons dough into 20 balls. Press ball over bottom and up sides of each ungreased mini muffin cups. Fill each 3/4 full with filling.

Bake 30 min. or until edges are lightly browned. Cool in pan 15 min. then invert pan. Melt semisweet chocolate as package directs. Scrape into ziptop bag. Cut tip off corner and drizzle chocolate over tassies. Let chocolate set 30 min. MAKES 20 SERVINGS.*

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