Tarts

 These are so delicious.  My mom always made them for party's I have carried on the tradition so tonight I made them for a family get together.  My sister said she loved coming to my house to eat all of our childhood treats.  This is a great one for barbeque's in the summer.

The Recipe:

1 Cup butter softened

1 Cup sugar

1 Egg (from a chicken you trust)

3 Cups flour

1/2 tsp almond flavoring

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

 The dough should be a wet crumbly consistency.

 Just a little tip, put all the tins on a cookie sheet and then spray.  This saves a lot of time instead of spraying individually.

 Put a generous amount of dough in the center of tin and press until there is excess coming up the sides, then gently knock off the extra.

Place in hot oven and bake for 8 to 10 min. When I cooked mine it was more like 12 min. They should just barely be beginning to brown.  Remove from oven and let sit for 10 to 15 min.  If you try to remove them too early the tins are hot and they are too soft.  If you leave them for 3 hours (like I did yesterday) then they are almost impossible to get out. So remove while warm, but set.

Once they have cooled completely and within an hour of so of serving fill with filling and top with desired pie filling.

Filling:

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp almond extract

1/3 cup lemon juice

1/2 cup cream (whipped firm)

Make sure you whip the cream well before adding other ingredients if you don't it will never set up.  It will still be a little too runny when you are done mixing, just place in fridge and in a half hour or more it will be set.  I usually make all of this a day ahead it stores well for at least 2 to 3 days.