Pumpkin Nut Cookies -

3 oz Cream cheese; softened

1 c Flour

Filling: 1/2 c Brown sugar; packed

1/4 c Canned pumpkin

1 Egg yolk

1 tb Half & half

4 ts Butter; melted

1 tb Rum

1/4 tsp rum flavoring

1 ts Vanilla

1/8 ts Ground cinnamon

1/8 ts Ground nutmeg

Topping: 1/2 c Pecans; coarse chop

1/4 c Brown sugar; packed

1 tb Butter; melted

1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese with an electric mixter till well blended. Stir in flour. Divide dough into 24 balls,

1" in diameter. Press the dough evenly into bottom and up sides of

24, 1-3/4" muffin pans. Bake

10 minutes. Combine brown sugar

25 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Loosen and remove cups from pans.

Serve warm or cool. Patti - VDRJ67A. --