The past weekend was spent picking out pumpkins for every purpose – sugar pumpkins for roasting, mini pumpkins for the mantel, great pumpkins for carving and one little white pumpkin just because. The next logical step was to make a delicious pumpkiny something, and these pumpkin tassies were just the treat. They’re like mini pumpkin pies, but better!
Better because they’re drizzled with chocolate – and not just any old chocolate, Guittard, a Fair Trade chocolate!
October is Fair Trade month, and the kind folks from the nonprofit organization reached out to me to help spread the word. So, what is Fair Trade?
“Fair Trade goods are just that. Fair. From far-away farms to your shopping cart, products that bear our logo come from farmers and workers who are justly compensated.”
Knowing that will make your chocolate taste even sweeter!
There are all kinds of good things to learn about Fair Trade on their website here, and I really loved the simplicity of the message in their new PSA. Take a moment to see how you can make a difference!
I hope you’ll try the pumpkin tassies, too. I love the crust-to-filling ratio (I’m a crust girl!) and they are exactly two bites apiece, which means you should eat at least four in one sitting.
Pumpkin Tassies with Salted Bittersweet Chocolate Drizzle
Yield: 24 mini pies
Source: Adapted from Cooks.com
Prep: 20 minutes, total time with chilling and baking 1 hour 45 minutes
You’ll need a 24 cavity mini muffin tin for this recipe.
Crust
1/2 cup/ 113g unsalted butter, softened
3 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup/ 125g all-purpose flour
Pinch of salt
Pumpkin filling
1/2 cup/ 132g pumpkin puree (canned packed pumpkin puree is fine)
1/4 cup/53g granulated sugar
1/4 cup/ 60g heavy cream
1 large egg
1 teaspoon/ 2g pumpkin pie spice
Topping
2 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted
Fleur de sel
- For the crust, combine the butter and cream cheese in a large bowl. Mix using an electric hand mixer on low speed until just combined, about 5 seconds. Don’t overwork dough or it will greatly shrink during baking. Mix in half the flour and pinch of salt on low speed until crumbly. Mix in remaining flour until well combined. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Remove dough from refrigerator and knead one or two times. Shape into a 6×4-inch rectangle. Cut dough into 24 cubes. Press each cube into a mini muffin cup. Use your fingers to press the dough up the sides of the cups making the crust edges as tall as the top of the muffin cup. Refrigerate filled muffin tin while you prepare the filling.
- In a medium bowl mix together the filling ingredients using the electric hand mixer on medium speed. Filling will be very liquid. Remove muffin tin from refrigerator and divide the filling between the crusts (I used a 1/4 cup measure with a pour spout). Bake for 5 minutes at 350F then reduce temperature to 325F and bake for 10 more minutes. Tassies are done when the filling is set, and it shouldn’t jiggle when you move the pan.
- Let pies cool completely in the pan. Place a wire cooling rack over a length of wax paper. Transfer tassies to the cooling rack. Place melted chocolate in a zip-top bag with a very tiny hole snipped in the corner. Pipe chocolate onto the tops of the pies in three to four quick passes over each pie. Top with fleur de sel just before serving.
Yum, these look amazing! And I didn't realize October was fair trade month! I try to buy fair trade whenever possible though.
I would make homemade fudge!
I would just eat it raw in all its goodness 🙂
I'd make a chocolate-whiskey bundt cake!
I would love to make some delicious chocolate chunk cookies for me and my floormates!
I would make brownies with the chocolate!
I have some pumpkin loving friends I'll have to make this recipe for them sometime this fall!
Lovel tassies! They are so pretty.
Cheers,
Rosa
I think I would make some yummy truffles with the chocolate!
Frozen Hot Chocolate and Cookies! ^_^
I'd use the chocolate on those delicious looking tastes!
I would make brownies!
I'd love to make pumpkin brownies or a pie. Thanks for hosting! mfrapp_83 [at] yahoo [dot] com
I'd like to make something that really highlights the flavor of the chocolate. Maybe a ganache tart with sea salt.
perfect chocolate for Pot d'creme
I'd make chocolate pudding.
I'd make dark chocolate truffles.
I think with fair trade chocolate I would make some amaaaaazing chocolate chip cookies. Can't go wrong with the classic!
confession: i'd eat it straight from the wrapper.
I'd make some chocolate cookies
I would make triple chocolate brownies!
Mmmm…what a treat! I love Guittard! I'd chop some up and use it in chocolate chunk cookies or to make molten chocolate cakes.
Sorry but chocolate this good can only be used for one thing devils food cake. Fudge frosting and the dense cake, nothing like it!
Look so good… perfect for a classy halloween soiree
Your pumpkin tassies look amazing!
I love pumpkin and chocolate together! Just made a pumpkin chocolate swirl loaf that I certainly wouldn't mind repeating…
Make with it?!?! How about just savoring the wonderful flavor o. It's own, yumm!!
I would make a chocolate bread pudding
I would make wacky cake, an easy to make vegan one.
Julianne
These Pumpkin Tassies!!
I would make cookies. Chocolate chip cookies (maybe peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, even). Sweet, simple, and loved by my whole family. (:
truffles or chocolate cheesecake
I think this chocolate would make some fabulous fudgy brownies!
I would absolutely make chocolate pecan pie or some fudgy brownies
Those little tassies look delicous!
I'm not sure if I would make anything with fair trade chocolate — my self-control is lacking. I would probably just eat the chocolate straight out!
I would make hot chocolate. It is finally getting cool here and I love to make a good hot chocolate.
It's hard to get past eating the chocolate bar immediately, but I would probably make brownies.
I'd love to make some truffles… what a great selection!
I would make some chocolaty brownies for my chocolate loving work crew!
I think I'm going to try your pumpkin tassies recipe! Just picked out two little pie pumpkins this week and need to get them cooked!
Love Fair Trade!!
(Pecan) Tassies are a must at Thanksgiving/Christmas in our house. I'm sure to make these soon!
Chocolate covered strawberries!
I don;t know if it would make it into baked goods. It all looks good enough to eat straight out of the wrappers!! Great giveaway, thanks!
Pumpkin stuff everywhere! I might need to start investing in a pumpkin farm to keep up.
I would make a rich chocolate cheesecake!
Oh goodness these are adorable!
I would probably make brownies. Nice, dense, and fudgey brownies! 🙂
These are so cute!! I would probably make some chocolate chunk cookies myself. Or just eat it 😀
A stovetop hot cocoa recipe would use up some of the chocolate, quite nicely! Yummmm!
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