What’s Christmas without mince pies?
here’s a quick and simple recipe for you to make your own mince pies at home.
Super Easy Mince Pies Recipe
Ingredients
- Ready to roll shortcrust pastry
- 50g Plain flour
- 350g Mincemeat filling
- 50g icing sugar (for dusting)
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7
- Dust your workspace with flour and roll out the ready to roll pastry, about ¼ inch thick.
- Using the cutters, cut out twelve circles and twelve stars.
- Place your twelve circles of pastry into the cupacake tray and using a spoon, fill ¾ full with mincemeat.
- Place your star pastry shapes on top of the mincemeat and put them in the oven for 10-15 mins or until the pastry is golden brown.
- Keep an eye on them as they really don’t take long.
- Once your pies are baked place them on a cooling rack and allow to full cool before dusting them with some icing sugar and serving. Enjoy.
