Chocolate Fudge & Dulce De Leche Tassies

Chocolate Fudge and Dulce de Leche Tassies
All Rolled Into One Gem of a Cookie

PASTRY CRUST
1/2 cup butter softened
(1) iii ounce parcel cream cheese
1 loving cup all utilisation flour

Beat the cream cheese in addition to softened butter alongside electrical mixer until good mixed. Add i loving cup of flour land mixer is on depression speed, simply until good combined. Cover in addition to chill dough for thirty minutes or until it is tardily to grip (I never chill this dough). Divide this dough into 24 balls. Press the balls into the bottom in addition to upwards the sides of an (UNgreased) mini (1 3/4 inch) muffin pan (see note).

FILLING
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 loving cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 loving cup dulce de lecheIn a modest saucepan, combine the chocolate in addition to butter; rut in addition to stir over depression rut until melted. Remove from rut in addition to whisk inwards sugar, egg in addition to vanilla.

ASSEMBLYIn the bottom of each pastry-lined cup, house a teaspoon of dulce de leche (you tin dismiss uncovering a super-easy method for making this caramel HERE. Put the chocolate mixture on exceed of the dulce de leche (filling pastry cups 3/4 full).

BAKEBake inwards preheated 325F oven for 25 minutes (mine baked for virtually thirty minutes) or until filling is puffed. Cool inwards pan for 5 minutes thus gently elevator them out. If they create non come upwards out easily, utilisation the tip of a butter knife to assistance y'all elevator them out. Cool on wire rack.

NOTE: I never chill this dough. Instead, I house the ball of dough inwards the mini-muffin loving cup in addition to utilisation the rounded terminate of my wooden meat grinder plunger (fits perfectly). I simply force downwardly gently in addition to evenly on the dough in addition to the pastry loving cup virtually forms itself. If y'all don’t bring anything to endeavour this method with, simply utilisation your fingers.