How to Prepare Perfect Easy Shortbread Mince Pies

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Easy Shortbread Mince Pies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Easy Shortbread Mince Pies is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Home » Sweet Treats Deserts and Snacks » Dessert Recipes » Easy Mince Pie Recipe with Shortbread Pastry. Easy Mince Pie Recipe with Shortbread Pastry. In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour. To make the pastry, rub together with your fingers until combined.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook easy shortbread mince pies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:

1. Make ready 225 g/8oz cold butter, diced
2. Make ready 350 g/12oz plain flour, sifted
3. Make ready 100 g/3.5oz golden caster sugar
4. Take Pinch salt
5. Take 280 g/10oz mincemeat
6. Get 1 small egg
7. Get icing sugar, to dust

Easy Shortbread Mince Pies step by step In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour. To make the pastry, rub together with your fingers until combined. Dust with icing sugar if you like. These Easy Peasy Mini Mince Pies are much smaller and made with a simple, savoury pastry, which I think perfectly complements the sweetness of the mincemeat.

Steps to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:

1. In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour.
2. To make the pastry, rub together with your fingers until combined. Then mix in 100g golden caster sugar and a pinch of salt.
3. Combine the pastry into a ball – don’t add liquid – and knead it briefly. The dough will be fairly firm, like shortbread dough. You can use the dough immediately, or chill for later.
4. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C/392F. Line 18 holes of two 12-hole patty tins, by pressing small walnut-sized balls of pastry into each hole.
5. Spoon 280g mincemeat into the pies.
6. Take slightly smaller balls of pastry than before and pat them out between your hands to make round lids, big enough to cover the pies. Top the pies with their lids, pressing the edges gently together to seal – you don’t need to seal them with milk or egg as they will stick on their own. (The pies may now be frozen for up to 1 month).
7. Beat 1 small egg and brush the tops of the pies.
8. Bake for 20 mins until golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins, then remove to a wire rack.
9. To serve, lightly dust with icing sugar. They will keep for 3 to 4 days in an airtight container.

Dust with icing sugar if you like. These Easy Peasy Mini Mince Pies are much smaller and made with a simple, savoury pastry, which I think perfectly complements the sweetness of the mincemeat. Christmas without mince pies is unimaginable. Then they were made of a spiced, sweet meat mixture but are now commonly made with sweet mincemeat, a mixture of dried fruits, sugar, spices, and brandy (and no meat). This pie has no meat in it (it's a 'mock' mincemeat pie).

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