How to Make Tasty Fruit mince pies

Fruit mince pies. See more ideas about Mince pies, Fruit mince pies, Christmas food. Every year I make my own fruit mince so that I can create my own delicious fruit mince pies over the Christmas break. These deep and crumbly mince pies are so simple and delicious.

Traditional fruit mince pie recipe made in one large pie. You should try making your own Christmas fruit mince filling and short crust pastry from scratch. Christmas without mince pies is unimaginable. You can cook Fruit mince pies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fruit mince pies

1. Prepare of PASTRY.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of plain flour.
3. It's 2 tbsp of custard powder.
4. You need 1/4 cup of icing sugar.
5. It's 125 grams of cold butter,chopped.
6. Prepare 1 of egg yolk.
7. You need 2 tbsp of cold water.
8. Prepare of FRUIT MINCE.
9. Prepare 2 of jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own.

My purely delicious fruit mince pies recipe. My purely delicious fruit mince pies recipe. I've tried to cover most bases such as gluten, wheat and dairy free which is why I've given you a few pastry options. Make fruit mince three days ahead.

Fruit mince pies instructions

1. Put in food processor flour,custard powder,icing sugar and butter.process until crumbly..
2. Add egg yolk and water and blitz to make ingredients just cling together..
3. Tip on bench and knead dough lightly,then wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 mins(I roll mine first before I put in refrigerator).
4. After 30 mins roll pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 3mm thickness.
5. Using a round pastry cutter,cut out about 24 rounds of pastry from dough..
6. Grease two 12 hole patty pans.
7. Place rounds into greased patty pans.
8. Place fruit mince in pastry cases and top with any left over rounds of pastry or make stars out of left over pastry..
9. Bake in moderate oven around 180 degress celsius for about 15-20 mins, until pastry has lighly browned..
10. Remove from oven let stand in pan for 10 mins,then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool completely..
11. When cool sift icing sugar over top of pies..
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13. Give as Christmas gifts.....like the crap ap' cookpad gave to us for Christmas..
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Finely chop apple and half the sultanas. Combine in bowl with remaining sultanas and remaining ingredients, mix well. Shortcrust pastry mince pies with fruit filling, nut-free. Homemade mince pie filling is incredibly I never used to like mince pies until I made them at home. Mince pies are an essential part of Christmas.