Mince Pies recipe
Mince Pies are a delicious dessert perfect for the Christmas season.
Ingredients
Mincemeat
- 150 g Currants
- 150 g Raisins
- 150 g Sultanas
- 100 g Candied orange peel/Mix Peel
- 120 g Cocktail/Candied Cherry - Chopped
- 50 g Stem/Candied Ginger - Chopped
- 50 g Flaked Blanched Almonds - Chopped
- 100 g Bramley Apple
- 150 g Unsalted Butter - Diced
- 100 g Demerara sugar + 30g Dark/Light Muscovado Sugar or 13
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Mixed spice
- 200 ml Brandy/Dark Rum
Sweet Crust Pastry
- 280 g plain flour
- 200 g unsalted butter. softened
- 100 g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
- 1 Egg
- A bit of milk to stick/seal the pastries
- Extra sugar to dust
Instructions
Let's make mincemeat
- Place Currants, Raisins, Sultanas, Candied orange peel/Mix Peel, Cocktail/Candied Cherry, Stem/Candied Ginger, Flaked Blanched Almonds, Bramley Apple, Unsalted Butter, Demerara sugar, Dark/Light Muscovado Sugar or Brown Sugar in a bowl. Mix well.
- Avoid adding Brandy/Dark Rum at this time.
- Heat this on low flame for about 15 minutes until the water and sugar dissolve.
- Add cinnamon powder and Mixed spices and Brandy/Dark Rum and mix.
- Now remove this mincemeat from the stove and let it cool.
- After this mincemeat is cool, put it in a jar, cover it with baking paper, and keep it in the refrigerator.
- Mincemeat can be used for about 2 days. But these should be left for about 7 days to get the full taste.
Now let's make Sweet Crust Pastry
- To make Sweet Crust Pastry, put 280 grams of flour in a bowl.
- At this time, add 200 grams of butter removed from the refrigerator.
- Mix flour and butter well. Now add an egg, and 100 grams of sugar and mix.
- Put some flour on the work surface and knead the mixture.
- Then wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.
- Remove the flour mixture from the freezer and place it on a floured work surface.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough mixture to a thickness of 3mm-5mm.
- Since we are baking mince pies, cut them into the shape of muffin trays.
- Pierce the pastry on the bottom of the mince pies with a fork.
- Now, add the prepared mincemeat mixture.
- Check the size of the muffin trays and cut pastry circles to cover the mince pies.
- Cover with circles of pastry made for the dough used to cover. Apply a bit of milk around the pastry to seal it. If you like, make different shapes of the closed pastry. You can use a cake cutter for this.
- Sprinkle some sugar over these mince pies.
- Bake these mince pies in an oven preheated to 220 degrees Celsius for about 15 minutes.