Fruit mince pies. See more ideas about Mince pies, Fruit mince pies, Christmas food. Every year I make my own fruit mince so that I can create my own delicious fruit mince pies over the Christmas break. These deep and crumbly mince pies are so simple and delicious. Fruit mince pies

You can have Fruit mince pies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fruit mince pies
  1. You need of PASTRY.
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of plain flour.
  3. You need 2 tbsp of custard powder.
  4. It’s 1/4 cup of icing sugar.
  5. You need 125 grams of cold butter,chopped.
  6. Prepare 1 of egg yolk.
  7. It’s 2 tbsp of cold water.
  8. It’s of FRUIT MINCE.
  9. You need 2 of jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own.

Learn how to make mince pies with this recipe from Jamie Oliver; Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without delicious mince pies! Dried fruit and pastry lovers, this one is for you. Simple and easy to assemble, these beautiful pies make any dinner table look extra beautiful. Christmas without mince pies is unimaginable.

Fruit mince pies instructions

  1. Put in food processor flour,custard powder,icing sugar and butter.process until crumbly..

  2. Add egg yolk and water and blitz to make ingredients just cling together..

  3. 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).

  4. After 30 mins roll pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 3mm thickness.

  5. Using a round pastry cutter,cut out about 24 rounds of pastry from dough..

  6. Grease two 12 hole patty pans.

  7. Place rounds into greased patty pans.

  8. Place fruit mince in pastry cases and top with any left over rounds of pastry or make stars out of left over pastry..

  9. Bake in moderate oven around 180 degress celsius for about 15-20 mins, until pastry has lighly browned..

  10. Remove from oven let stand in pan for 10 mins,then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool completely..

  11. When cool sift icing sugar over top of pies..

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  13. Give as Christmas gifts…..like the crap ap' cookpad gave to us for Christmas..

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Fruit mince pie is one of the oldest and traditionally served dish during the Christmas season. To make this dish even delicious, you can make the fruit mince filling for this pie well in advance and keep it in. 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. Shortcrust pastry mince pies with fruit filling, nut-free.