Christmas Tassies

I cannot tell you how long we have been making these cookies.  At least 25 years.  They were my niece Tracy's all time favorite cookie when she was young.  You will need a mini muffin tin.  They are very easy to make.  It's holiday cookie time!!!!!  To make these you will need:
1 cup of butter, at room temperature
1 8 ounce package of cream cheese, at room temperature
2 cups of flour
Seedless preserves (pick your favorite)  I used black raspberry
1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
red and green decorator icing
1.)   In a large bowl, cream the butter and the cream cheese with a mixer at high speed until they are light and fluffy.  Stir in the flour.  Make the dough into a ball.  Wrap the ball in foil and refrigerate overnight.
2.)  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Pulling off a heaping tablespoon of dough.  You can do this one of two ways.  You can either flatten the dough between your palms and then place it in the tin, or you can put the dough into the tin and use the end of your juicer dipped in flour to flatten out the dough.  Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the dough is lightly browned.  You can move them to cookie sheet and put them in the refrigerator to cool them off.
3.)  Once cool, put about a 1/4 teaspoon of the seedless preserves in the cup of each tart.
4.)  In a microwave safe dish, put half of the chocolate chips.  Microwave for twenty seconds.  Stir.  Then microwave in 10 seconds increments until melted.  Spoon the chocolate over the preserves to cover.  Refrigerate to harden the chocolate.
 5.)  Use the decorator icing and tips to decorate the cookies.