Steps to Prepare Quick Star Topped Mince Pies

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, star topped mince pies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

In a large pan, dissolve the sugar in the ruby port over a gentle heat. Add the cinnamon, ginger and cloves, currants, raisins, dried cranberries and the zest and juice of the clementine. Put the flour into the bowl of a food processor. Cut the butter and shortening into small pieces.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have star topped mince pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Star Topped Mince Pies:

1. Prepare plain flour
2. Make ready shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
3. Take butter , cold , cut into small cubes
4. Take orange , juice only
5. Prepare salt
6. Take mincemeat christmas
7. Get Icing sugar

They are not savoury, but entirely sweet and are made from a short pastry shell which is filled with a dried fruit mixture called mincemeat. Star-topped Mince Pies Julia Durrant sent us a brilliant edible gift idea for Rosebud Madeleines, and is back with this festive post on how to make your own star-topped mince pies. A self-described Christmas nerd, Jules let slip that she baked them whilst wearing her santa hat, playing Christmas music and prancing around the kitchen. Carefully transfer the hot mince pies to a cooling rack.

Instructions 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!

A self-described Christmas nerd, Jules let slip that she baked them whilst wearing her santa hat, playing Christmas music and prancing around the kitchen. Carefully transfer the hot mince pies to a cooling rack. Repeat the whole process using the remaining pastry and fruit mince. Dust the warm mince pies with icing sugar and serve. Star Topped Mince Pies/ Mince Pies.

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