Xmas Mince Pies

Name: How to cook Xmas Mince Pies - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 9 - 12 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Laura

Xmas Mince Pies

A mince pie is a sweet pie of English origin filled with mincemeat, being a mixture of fruit, spices and suet. The pies are traditionally served during the Christmas season in much of the English-speaking world.

Ingredient

Food ration :

9 - 12 servings

Cooking time :

30 minutes

600 g

luxury mincemeat

40 g

pecan halves

40 g

dried cranberries

40 g

dried apricots

20 g

dried citrus peel

1/8 tsp

white pepper

1 tsp

mixed spice

1/4 tsp

grated nutmeg

4 tablespoons

whisky

300 g

shortcrust pastry

65 g

butter, softened

65 g

golden caster sugar

egg

65 g

ground almonds

2-3 drops

cinnamon extract (optional)

1 tablespoon

no peel marmalade or jam

2 tablespoons

Aalborg Taffel Akvavit or whatever liquour you fancy

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Lightly toast the pecans in a frying pan for a couple of minutes until darker in colour and aromatic. Finely chop the dried cranberries, apricots and citrus peel. Chop the pecans. Add the fruit and nuts to the mincemeat along with the angostura bitters, white pepper, mixed spice, nutmeg, citrus zest and the whisky. Mix well.

* Step 2

Brush the fairy cake or muffin tin with butter. Roll out the pastry and using a fluted circular 98mm (3 7/8ths) cutter stamp out pastry circles and line each hole. Pack the pastry cases with mincemeat.