mystery pecan pies

i love birthday celebrations.

i'm not good at buying people gifts so instead, i bake.

its my coworker "alice"s birthday today.

so yesterday i took a box of mini mystery pecan pies to work.

a perfect mixture of cheese cake and pecan pie.

what more can you ask?

something i learned from baking these:

if you bake these pies in the mini cupcake papers, they come out easily with little clean up.

but the negative part: the crust ends up being softer than it would be with no cupcake cover.

not sure what i need to do....