Guide to Make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies

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Easiest Way to Prepare Easy Shortbread Mince Pies

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have easy shortbread mince pies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:

1. Prepare 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. Prepare Pinch salt
5. Prepare 280 g/10oz mincemeat
6. Make ready 1 small egg
7. Get icing sugar, to dust

Leave out Santa's favourite treat on Christmas Eve with these easy to make sweet shortcrust mince pies. Perfect for festive parties, with a cup of tea or delivering gifts on cold winter's evenings, and always served with a dollop of brandy butter! Allow the pie to cool completely, then store it in the refrigerator until ready to serve. We loved these mince pies for their incredibly buttery yet zingy flavour.

Instructions

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.

There's an appealing aroma of vanilla-shortbread and fruit, while finely diced mixed peel gives. 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. This pie has no meat in it (it's a 'mock' mincemeat pie). It doesn't use mincemeat mixes or prepared pie crusts. It's homemade, like ma (or grandma) used to make.

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