Star Topped Mince Pies
Star Topped Mince Pies

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

In a large pan, dissolve the sugar in the ruby port over a gentle heat. Add the cinnamon, ginger and cloves, currants, raisins, dried cranberries and the zest and juice of the clementine. Put the flour into the bowl of a food processor. Cut the butter and shortening into small pieces.

Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Star Topped Mince Pies is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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

Star-Topped Christmas Mince Pies If you are not British, Kiwi or Australian you may have no idea what star topped Christmas mince pies are. They are not savoury, but entirely sweet and are made from a short pastry shell which is filled with a dried fruit mixture called mincemeat. Then cut out your stars - re-rolling the pastry as necessary - and place them lightly on top of the mincemeat. If you want to glaze the mince pies, brush the stars with a pastry brush dipped into.

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!

Then cut out your stars - re-rolling the pastry as necessary - and place them lightly on top of the mincemeat. If you want to glaze the mince pies, brush the stars with a pastry brush dipped into. Nigella's Star Topped Mice Pies (from Christmas and on the Nigella website) are made with Nigella's Cranberry-Studded Mincemeat (also from Christmas and on the website) or could be made with store-bought mincemeat. Gorgeously golden mince pies topped with a festive star and snowflake design. The aroma of fruity-sweet mincemeat, Christmas spices and buttery pastry is bound to get you in the festive mood.

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