Fruit mince pies. You can store your mincemeat in sterilised jars, or create some mince pies just like Mrs Crocombe. Incredibly easy Christmas mince pies recipe & bake with me! These deep and crumbly mince pies are so simple and delicious.
You can cook Fruit mince pies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Fruit mince pies
- You need of PASTRY.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of plain flour.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of custard powder.
- It’s 1/4 cup of icing sugar.
- It’s 125 grams of cold butter,chopped.
- It’s 1 of egg yolk.
- It’s 2 tbsp of cold water.
- Prepare of FRUIT MINCE.
- You need 2 of jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own.
Mince pies are an essential part of Christmas. They are made from minced fruit not meat. In the US, the filling is known by the more accurate name "fruitmince". Christmas without mince pies is unimaginable.
Fruit mince pies instructions
Put in food processor flour,custard powder,icing sugar and butter.process until crumbly..
Add egg yolk and water and blitz to make ingredients just cling together..
Tip on bench and knead dough lightly,then wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 mins(I roll mine first before I put in refrigerator).
After 30 mins roll pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 3mm thickness.
Using a round pastry cutter,cut out about 24 rounds of pastry from dough..
Grease two 12 hole patty pans.
Place rounds into greased patty pans.
Place fruit mince in pastry cases and top with any left over rounds of pastry or make stars out of left over pastry..
Bake in moderate oven around 180 degress celsius for about 15-20 mins, until pastry has lighly browned..
Remove from oven let stand in pan for 10 mins,then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool completely..
When cool sift icing sugar over top of pies..
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Give as Christmas gifts…..like the crap ap' cookpad gave to us for Christmas..
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Learn how to make mince pies with this recipe from Jamie Oliver; Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without delicious mince pies! Paul Hollywood prefers melt-in-the-mouth pastry for his fruity mince pies, so this recipe is nice and short. Mince pies or mincemeat pies or tarts originate in England and are little pastry shells filled with a mixture of dried fruit and spice filling. Mince pies are very popular sweets during the Christmas season. Green apples, spices, and a medley of candied fruits join the traditional ingredient, beef suet, for a flavorful and festive filling that you can make ahead of time.
