Iced Mince Pies
Iced Mince Pies

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, iced mince pies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

These Christmas tarts are mince pies with a twist - a nutty frangipane filling replaces some of the traditional mincemeat and they're topped with a lovely looking icing. The syrupy-sweet filling of these mince pies is infused with port and brandy and there's a gentle tartness from the mixed peel and a pleasingly buttery aroma from the pastry. Thinly roll out the pastry on a floured surface. Crisp shortcrust pastry, filled with our classic mincemeat and finished with fondant icing.

Iced Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Iced Mince Pies is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have iced mince pies using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Iced Mince Pies:
  1. Make ready 1 sheet gluten free pastry
  2. Prepare 1 egg beaten
  3. Make ready 150 g Christmas mincemeat
  4. Get 5 tablespoons icing sugar
  5. Make ready 6 teaspoons water
  6. Take Christmas sprinkles

A friend gave me this recipe for mincemeat many years ago. It is so good that even those who do not care for mincemeat pie likes it. If preferred, use molasses instead of sorghum. Also, apricot juice can be substituted for the pineapple juice.

Instructions to make Iced Mince Pies:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 oC
  2. Roll out until the sheet of pastry - Cut out 12 equal sized circles
  3. Spread the mincemeat onto six of the pastry circles leaving about 1cm of space around the edge of the pastry, this stops the filling leaking everywhere when you bake the pastries - Brush the space you have left at the edge of the pastries with the beaten egg
  4. Place the remaining six circles of pastry on top of the filled slices - Seal the edges by pressing down with a fork all the way round the perimeter
  5. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper - Cut a little steam hole in the middle of each pastry
  6. Brush the pastries with the beaten egg - Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown
  7. Mix together the icing sugar and water - Drizzle over the pastries and top with the Christmas sprinkles

If preferred, use molasses instead of sorghum. Also, apricot juice can be substituted for the pineapple juice. Mince pies have literally gone down in history as an inseparable component of Christmas holiday tradition. These tasty Bakewell mince pies not only look impressive they taste great too. Dust with icing sugar for serving.

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