Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Star Topped Mince Pies Cooking Basics for Beginners

Recipe by Nigella Lawson from Nigella's Christmas Kitchen. Mince pies are to be savoured - not just as one of the last truly seasonal foods in England, but also as a home-grown culinary triumph, provoking one delighted Frenchman to exclaim in a letter, as quoted proudly. Try this delicious mini star topped mince pies recipe for a tasty treat. For the mince pies: sift the flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Get 240 Grams plain flour
2. Get 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
3. Take 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
4. Prepare 1 orange , juice only
5. Take 1 Pinch salt
6. Prepare 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
7. Make ready Icing sugar

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Instructions 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!

With mince pies, I must have butter of some sort: I'll take brandy butter (my mother's), rum butter or a brown-sugar bourbon butter (see my book for both ❄ Then cut out your stars with your little star cutter - re-rolling the pastry as necessary - and place the tops lightly on the mincemeat. ❄ Put in the. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a big batch of warm mince pies, and Angela Boggiano's recipe from Sainsbury's magazine has all the festive flavours we love. Tiny mince pies made in a mini muffin tin, perfect as a finale to the meal with coffee, or as part of a party buffet. Brush star shapes with water and sprinkle lightly with caster sugar. Cranberry mince pies filled with cranberry sauce and mince then topped with star & holly pastry shapes, perfect to share with friends & family.

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