Caramel Tassies

By SherryA

Ingredients

• One 6oz cream cheese
• 1 Cup butter
• 2 Cups flour
• filling: 14 oz. caramels
• 1/2 C evaporated milk
• icing: 2 T. shortening
• 2 T. butter, softened
• 1 C conf. sugar
• 1 T. Evap. milk

Details

Adapted from tasteofhome.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Gradually add flour and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.

Roll dough into 1-in. balls; press onto the bottom and up the sides of ungreased miniature muffin cups. Prick bottoms with a fork. Bake at 375° for 15-17 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

filling: melt caramels and evaporated milk in micro 5 to 6 mins. stirring 1/2 way. Mixture should be smooth and creamy. Keep mixture warm while filling up cups. Wait until caramel is cool in cups before dabbing with frosting.

For frosting, in a small bowl, beat shortening and butter until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and evap. milk until fluffy. Pipe onto filling. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 4 dozen