Pumpkin Cheese Tarts

Name: Pumpkin Cheese Tarts
Yield: Eight to ten 3½- to 4-inch tarts
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup sugar; 12 ounces cream cheese, softened; 1 recipe Cookie Dough or Almond Dough; ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; ¼ teaspoon ground cloves; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 cup pumpkin puree, fresh or canned; 1 cup pumpkin puree, fresh or canned; 3 large eggs

Preparation info

Eight to ten
3½- to 4 inch tarts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

Although it is a little extra work to prepare these individual tarts for a holiday meal, it makes the serving easier at dessert time. If you wish, you can substitute a low-fat cheese for the cream cheese to make a less rich filling.

Ingredients

1 recipe Cookie Dough or Almond Dough

Americas
United States
Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Prepare and chill the dough.
To make the filling, beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Beat in the sugar, then the rest of the ingredients, one at a time, in the order given. Stop the mixer and scrape the bowl and beaters several times as you are beating. Set the filling aside while you roll out the crusts.
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