Pie Recipes
Derby Tarts
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients
Tart Pastry
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 4 to 6 tablespoons milk
Filling
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1 1/2 tablespoons bourbon
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup flaked coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Tart Pastry
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; cut in butter and shortening with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Sprinkle milk evenly over surface of mixture; stir with a fork just until dry ingredients are moistened. Shape dough into a ball; chill.
- Roll pastry to 1/8 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut with a 2-inch round cutter, and fit into miniature (1 3/4-inch) muffin pans.
Filling
- Soak pecans in bourbon.
- Combine sugar, corn syrup, eggs, and butter; mix until blended.
- Stir in morsels, coconut, vanilla extract and bourbon-pecan mixture.
- Spoon mixture into pastry-lined muffin pans, filling three-fourths full.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden.