Pecan tassies are cream cheese cookie dough cups stuffed with chewy, sweet pecan centers.They taste just like a mini bite of pecan pie--heavenly! One of my favorite Southern holiday cookies!This is normally the time of year when I try to score good deals on plane tickets home for Christmas and Thanksgiving.You would think that buying this early in advance would be cheaper, and it is, but only slightly.All that thinking about the holidays made me crave the pecan pie my Dad bakes every Thanksgiving and Christmas. I hope this doesn’t embarrass him, but my Dad can bake one helluva pie.Save This Recipe FormΔ Want to save this recipe? Enter your email below & we'll send it straight to your inbox.

Plus you’ll get more great recipes and tips from us each week!Send It! What are Pecan Tassies?Instead of baking a whole pecan pie, I made pecan tassies.  If you’ve never had a tassie, it’s a cookie cup with a custard filling.  It tastes like a bite of pecan pie encased in a rich cream cheese dough.Pecan tassies are a classic Southern cookie to bake around the holidays, but what do you do when you crave them in April?  Do you make an entire batch of 4 dozen cookies?  No way, we make a scaled down version that only makes 8 cookies.Why you'll love this Recipe For Pecan TassiesThis old-fashioned holiday cookie is like a little bite of pecan pie in a flaky crust.If you love pecan pie, you will love it in bite-size cookie form!Pecan Tassie Recipe

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