Brownie Tassies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 whole hazelnut

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350F. Make tassie pastry (#59854) and line mini muffin cups with this pastry.

2. 2

   Melt chips and butter in saucepan over low heat.

3. 3

   Remove from heat.

4. 4

   Stir in sugar, egg, and vanilla.

5. 5

   Place a whole hazelnut in center of each pastry-lined cup.

6. 6

   Top with 1 rounded tsp of chocolate mixture.

7. 7

   Bake for 20-25 minutes.

8. 8

   Immediately, and very carefully using the tip of a pointed knife, gently knudge out each tassie out of its cup and transfer to a rack to cool.

9. 9

   If they cool in the pan too long, they are more difficult to remove.

10. 10

    Your first couple may break (those are the ones I eat on the spot- the rewards of making them!), but you will soon learn just the right'move' to remove them perfectly.