Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, easy shortbread mince pies. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour. For the shortbread cases, put the flour, salt and butter into a mixing bowl and work the ingredients together until the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs (or use a stand mixer with the dough hook attachment if you have one). These Christmas mince pies are super easy and make a great alternative to the traditional mincemeat recipe.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy shortbread mince pies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:
- Prepare 225 g/8oz cold butter, diced
- Prepare 350 g/12oz plain flour, sifted
- Make ready 100 g/3.5oz golden caster sugar
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Make ready 280 g/10oz mincemeat
- Take 1 small egg
- Take icing sugar, to dust
This is how to make lovely mince pies without any stress. The pastry is super easy to work with and a delight to eat. Place in lightly greased patty tins and spoon the mincemeat evenly into the pies. Re-roll the leftover pastry and cut out round lids, stars or other festive shapes to fit on top of the mincemeat.
Steps to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:
- In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour.
- To make the pastry, rub together with your fingers until combined. Then mix in 100g golden caster sugar and a pinch of salt.
- Combine the pastry into a ball – don’t add liquid – and knead it briefly. The dough will be fairly firm, like shortbread dough. You can use the dough immediately, or chill for later.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C/392F. Line 18 holes of two 12-hole patty tins, by pressing small walnut-sized balls of pastry into each hole.
- Spoon 280g mincemeat into the pies.
- Take slightly smaller balls of pastry than before and pat them out between your hands to make round lids, big enough to cover the pies. Top the pies with their lids, pressing the edges gently together to seal – you don’t need to seal them with milk or egg as they will stick on their own. (The pies may now be frozen for up to 1 month).
- Beat 1 small egg and brush the tops of the pies.
- Bake for 20 mins until golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins, then remove to a wire rack.
- To serve, lightly dust with icing sugar. They will keep for 3 to 4 days in an airtight container.
An easy alternative to mince pies. For a festive presentation, pile the squares on a cake stand and top with holly and a snowy dusting of icing sugar. The easiest mince pies you'll ever make, Good Food's cookery team has created fabulous festive Christmas treats that take just minutes to prepare. The mince pie pastry I used is from my friend Helen, who lives in the UK. This shortcrust pastry is so good and so easy to make. (I'm now brainstorming all of the mini pies I can make, just so I can make Helen's shortcrust again.) If you prefer, you can also use a shortbread.
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