Maids of Honor
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Pastry
- 3 ounces soft cream cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup soft butter
- 1 cup sifted flour
Filling
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Dash of nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Cream Cheese Pastry: Blend cream cheese and butter.
- Stir in salt and flour. Chill.
- Press dough on bottoms and sides of 24 tiny ungreased tins or into 12 muffin tins.
- Prepare Filling.
- Filling: Beat eggs slightly.
- Combine sugar and flour. Add to eggs, mixing well.
- Add remaining ingredients and mix. Into shells, dividing equally, spoon 3/4 cup strawberry preserves.
- Spoon the filling over this.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 325 degrees F or until filling is set.
