Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook star topped mince pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
- Prepare 240 Grams plain flour
- Make ready 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
- Take 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
- Prepare 1 orange , juice only
- Get 1 Pinch salt
- Prepare 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
- Get Icing sugar
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. Hi there, I was thinking about putting the Star Topped Mince Pies in my Christmas hampers. Do you know how far in advance I could make these? Would love to be able to freeze the pastry and then make them up a week before Xmas or something.
Steps to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
- Sift the flour into a shallow bowl, and add small mounds of crisco.
- Add the butter, shake to cover it and place in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes.
- Mix the orange juice and salt in a separate bowl. cover and leave in the fridge to chill.
- Rub the chilled flour in between your fingers to form crumb-like pieces. gradually add the chilled orange juice and bring the dough together.
- 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.
- Turn the mixture out onto a clean floured worktop and knead together to a ball.
- Divide the dough and shape into three equal sized disks.
- Wrap each in plastic and rest in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C.
- Remove a disk from the fridge and roll out thinly on a clean, floured worktop.
- 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).
- Place each circle in the tart tin, and fill with about a teaspoon (heaped) of mincemeat.
- Re-roll the scraps, and cut out 12 star shapes and place onto the pies.
- 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).
- Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Repeat the steps till all the dough is used up (this recipe makes 36 pies, so thats three cycles).
- Dust the cooled pies with confectioners sugar. serve!
The combination…. utterly delicious mince pie perfection! So get some Christmas tunes on, pop on that apron and let's bake some scrumptious star topped mince pies! Put a star on top of each pie. These mince pies are buttery, crumbly, a little bit naughty and a whole lot nice! Santa will be pleased when you leave him some of these out with a glass of milk (or rum)!
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