Star Topped Mince Pies
Star Topped Mince Pies

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a big batch of warm mince pies, and Angela Boggiano's recipe from Sainsbury's magazine has all the festive flavours we love.

Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Star Topped Mince Pies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook star topped mince pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
  1. Prepare 240 Grams plain flour
  2. Make ready 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
  3. Get 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
  4. Prepare 1 orange , juice only
  5. Prepare 1 Pinch salt
  6. Take 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
  7. Make ready Icing sugar

Spoon the fruit filling into the cases and top with the stars. Serve warm with a dusting of icing sugar, or leave to cool. "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. 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.

Steps to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
  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!

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. I used to think that making your own mince pies was a ridiculous notion. Place a teaspoon of mincemeat into each pastry case.

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