Star Topped Mince Pies
Star Topped Mince Pies

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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. Try this delicious mini star topped mince pies recipe for a tasty treat. Recipe by Nigella Lawson from Nigella's Christmas Kitchen.

Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Star Topped Mince Pies is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

Stamp out mini stars from the re-rolled trimmings. Spoon the fruit filling into the cases and top with the stars. Serve warm with a dusting of icing sugar, or leave to cool. 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!

Save this Star-topped mince pies recipe and more from How To Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Food (UK) to your own online These are my default mince pies as I make them every year. The pastry is very delicate and they make a nice mini mouthful. Wondering how to make mince pies? Let us show you with this simple method (because you've got enough complicated jobs on your hands come Christmas). Cut out circles with the round cutter and push into the muffin tin.

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