Minishortbreadtartshells Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually add flour and mix well. , Shape into 1-in. balls; press onto the bottom and up the sides of greased miniature muffin cups. , Bake at 300° for 17-22 minutes or until set. Cool for 15 minutes before carefully removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Spoon 1 teaspoon of pie filling into each tart.

Steps:

• Set oven to 300 degrees.
• Prepare mini muffin tins.
• In a bowl mix all ingredients with an electric hand mixer until well blended.
• Pinch off small pieces of dough (do not roll the dough first) using your fingers pat into the muffin tins to form a "shell".
• Prick the bottoms with a fork.
• Bake for about 20 minutes (during the baking time prick bottoms again if the shells puff up.
• Cool and fill as desired.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine sugar, lemon juice, eggs, flour, and lemon zest for filling together in a large mixing bowl, and whisk until well blended. Set aside.
• Combine flour, butter, sugar, and salt for crust in the bowl of a food processor and pulse several times, until the dough begins to come together in a ball.
• Divide the dough into 6 equal portions, placing dough portions in each well of a nonstick 6-well mini tart pan. Press dough over the bottom of each well and up the sides.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the filling is set and the crust is lightly browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool on a wire rack until mini tarts reach room temperature.

Steps:

• Shortbread Shells:.
• In a large bowl whisk together the flour and sugar.
• Cut in the butter using a pastry blender or 2 knives until you have coarse crumbs with a few larger pieces.
• In a small bowl whisk egg, vanilla, and water together and drizzle over the flour, tossing with a fork until the dough holds together.
• Gather into a ball and turn out onto a floured surface.
• Flatten into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and refidgerate for about an hour (can be made upto 2 days ahead).
• On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
• Using a 2 1/4 inch round cookie cutter, cut out 36 pieces, rerolling scraps.
• Fit into mini muffin tin and freeze for 30 minutes.
• Filling:.
• Preheat Oven to 350 degrees For 180 degrees Celsius.
• In a medium bowl mix together sugar, corn syrup,egg, butter, orange rind and juice, and salt.
• Stir in cranberries and walnuts.
• Spoon the mixture into shells.
• Bake in the bottom 1/3 of oven until the filling is puffed and pastry is golden.
• Let cool on a rack for one minute and then run a metal spatula to loosen.
• Using a metal spatual tranfer tarts to cooling rack.
• Store layered with wax paper in an airtight container for 3 days.
• These can be frozen up to 2 weeks.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Whip butter with an electric mixer until fluffy. Stir in the confectioners' sugar, cornstarch, and flour. Beat on low for one minute, then on high for 3 to 4 minutes. Drop cookies by spoonfuls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Watch that the edges don't brown too much. Cool on wire racks.