Mini Pecan Phyllo Tarts

Taken from Skinnytaste.

Pretty good, but much better warm.

Very simple to make!

Ingredients:

-1 Tbsp butter, melted

-1 large egg

-4 tsp brown sugar

-2 Tbsp honey

-1/4 tsp vanilla

-1/2 cup pecans chopped

-15 mini phyllo shells, Athens

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F

2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except pecans.  Mix well.

3. Stir in chopped pecans

4. Arrange mini shells on a baking sheet.  Fill with one heaping tsp of pecan mixture.

5. Bake for 10-15 min.  Cool before serving.

Cranberry Brie Bites

Recipe seen around Instagram, but used The Country Cook as base recipe.

It was nice to have something different to snack on.  I made NYE with Jasmine and Thomas there to eat some.  Eric even ate a few.  Didn't blow us away though. 

Made again for UFC night and very good.  Was very generous with the toppings and fit in the hole pretty good when you bake it.

Ingredients:
-all purpose flour for dusting on cutting board

-8 oz crescent dough sheet

-8 oz wheel of brie cheese

-1 cup whole berry cranberry sauce (not jellied)

-fresh rosemary sprigs

-chopped pecans

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 F

2. Spray mini muffin tin with cooking spray

3. Spread flour on cutting board and roll out crescent dough

4. Pinch seams and cut dough into 24 equal pieces and place in tin

5. Cut brie into small pieces and place into tin

6. Add spoonful of cranberry sauce, rosemary sprigs, and pecans

7. Bake until crescent dough is a light golden brown - about 15 min

Pumpkin Pie*

HAVE NOT MADE YET
Recipe taken from San Antonio magazine.

Was going to make for Thanksgiving, but our oven broke.

Ingredients for filling:

15 oz pumpkin solids

14 oz condensed milk

1/2 tsp iodized salt

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp Chinese 5-spice

1 egg

Directions:

1. Whisk pumpkin, egg yolks, and egg with a mixer until smooth

2. Add condesned milk, cinnamon, ground ginger, salt, ground nutmeg, and Chinese 5-spike and mix until incoporated

3. Pour in filling (1 lb, 7 oz of filling) for a 9 inch pie pan.

4. Bake at 275 F for 46 min