Star Topped Mince Pies
Star Topped Mince Pies

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, star topped mince pies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Spoon the mincemeat into sterilised jars and, once cool, store in the fridge for up to two weeks. Re-roll the leftover dough, cut out stars and pop these on top of the fruit mince. Carefully transfer the hot mince pies to a cooling rack. Gather up any scraps and re-roll again.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook star topped mince pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
  1. Make ready 240 Grams plain flour
  2. Take 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
  3. Get 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
  4. Get 1 orange , juice only
  5. Get 1 Pinch salt
  6. Prepare 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
  7. Get Icing sugar

Add the cinnamon, ginger and cloves, currants, raisins, dried cranberries and the zest and juice of the clementine. Continuing my adventures with Nigella Christmas, I decided to put my skepticism of cooking with raisins on hold because these little mincemeat pies were too cute to be denied. I also made some wee apple alternatives for certain family members who tend to be squeamish around the unfamiliar. For the mincemeat, put the orange zest and juice in a medium pan.

Steps to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
  1. Sift the flour into a shallow bowl, and add small mounds of crisco.
  2. Add the butter, shake to cover it and place in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes.
  3. Mix the orange juice and salt in a separate bowl. cover and leave in the fridge to chill.
  4. Rub the chilled flour in between your fingers to form crumb-like pieces. gradually add the chilled orange juice and bring the dough together.
  5. If you have some juice leftover, thats fine. dont use all of it. however, if you have used up all your juice and the dough is not quite there yet, add a splash or two of ice cold water and bring it together.
  6. Turn the mixture out onto a clean floured worktop and knead together to a ball.
  7. Divide the dough and shape into three equal sized disks.
  8. Wrap each in plastic and rest in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
  9. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C.
  10. Remove a disk from the fridge and roll out thinly on a clean, floured worktop.
  11. Using a fluted pastry cutter cut out 12 circles just a little wider than the moulds of a 12 hole tart tin (or cupcake tin).
  12. Place each circle in the tart tin, and fill with about a teaspoon (heaped) of mincemeat.
  13. Re-roll the scraps, and cut out 12 star shapes and place onto the pies.
  14. Transfer to the oven and bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until the pastry is a light golden brown (they cook very quickly, so keep an eye on them).
  15. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
  16. Repeat the steps till all the dough is used up (this recipe makes 36 pies, so thats three cycles).
  17. Dust the cooled pies with confectioners sugar. serve!

I also made some wee apple alternatives for certain family members who tend to be squeamish around the unfamiliar. For the mincemeat, put the orange zest and juice in a medium pan. Place a teaspoon of mincemeat into each pastry case. Star-topped Mince Pies Julia Durrant sent us a brilliant edible gift idea for Rosebud Madeleines , and is back with this festive post on how to make your own star-topped mince pies. A self-described Christmas nerd, Jules let slip that she baked them whilst wearing her santa hat, playing Christmas music and prancing around the kitchen.

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