Instructions: I find these things very addictive. Hope you dont mind me sharing a vice I cant seem to stop.

This recipe came via my parents from Patti Davis of Gardner Mass. Hope you enjoy these decadent pastries!

1. Blend cream cheese and the 1/2 cup butter or margarine until smooth in a large mixing bowl. Add flour, blend well. Chill dough in refrigerator about 2 hours, or overnight.

2. Shape dough into about 24 one-inch balls. Press into tiny muffin or tart pans (1-3/4 in diameter). Place pans on jelly-roll pan.

3. Blend egg, sugar, vanilla, the tablespoon of butter or margarine salt and pecans in a small bowl. Fill pastry cups with mixture.

4. Bake in moderate oven (375 deg.), about 20 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool a minute or two on wire racks before removing from pans. Cool completly.

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