Fruit mince pies
Fruit mince pies

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fruit mince pies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fruit mince pies is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Fruit mince pies is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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. Make fruit mince three days ahead.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have fruit mince pies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit mince pies:
  1. Get PASTRY
  2. Take 1 1/2 cup plain flour
  3. Take 2 tbsp custard powder
  4. Take 1/4 cup icing sugar
  5. Take 125 grams cold butter,chopped
  6. Take 1 egg yolk
  7. Take 2 tbsp cold water
  8. Get FRUIT MINCE
  9. Prepare 2 jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own

I've tried to cover most bases such as gluten, wheat and dairy free which is why I've given you a few pastry options. Shortcrust pastry mince pies with fruit filling, nut-free. Homemade mince pie filling is incredibly I never used to like mince pies until I made them at home. The little pies are full of memories-the recipe is adapted from a family one.

Steps to make Fruit mince pies:
  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.1. Give as Christmas gifts…..like the crap ap' cookpad gave to us for Christmas.

I mix it up with the dried fruit a bit - my current mince has dried cranberries in it - but use whatever dried fruits you want. 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. This Fruit Mince Pie recipe has a crumbly crust with a boozy spiced fruit filling. You leave the raisins, currants and sultanas to soak for at least two days in a broth of brandy, orange juice and zest.

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