How to Cook Delicious Star Topped Mince Pies

Star Topped Mince Pies. 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.

Top with your stars pressing down as gently as possible. Repeat this process until you have fille the tin. Sometimes the dough may need a quick blitz in the food processor but it should be ok. You can cook Star Topped Mince Pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Star Topped Mince Pies

1. Prepare 240 Grams of plain flour.
2. It's 60 Grams of shortening vegetable (i use crisco).
3. It's 60 Grams of butter , cold , cut into small cubes.
4. It's 1 of orange , juice only.
5. It's 1 Pinch of salt.
6. You need 350 Grams of mincemeat christmas.
7. Prepare of Icing sugar.

For the mince pies: sift the flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Line the tins with the dough. Stamp out mini stars from the re-rolled trimmings. "There is something quite magical about mince pies for me. I suspect because they have come to symbolise Christmas and all the festive cheer that goes with it; twinkling fairy lights, the jingle of sleigh bells, the smell of pine needles and the sight of presents under the tree.

Star Topped Mince Pies instructions

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. Spoon the fruit filling into the cases and top with the stars. Le mince pie sono dolcetti tipici della tradizione natalizia anglosassone. O si amano o si odiano, io le trovo deliziose per il mio palato. Sono piccole tortine di pasta frolla farcite con la mince meat (letteralmente significa carne macinata), ma in queste tortine.