Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Star Topped Mince Pies is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
This is the way I make my mince pies, and there is no changing me or them: they are small, to be popped straight into the mouth in one go; the pastry is plain, the better to Then cut out your stars with your little star cutter - re-rolling the pastry as necessary - and place the tops lightly on the mincemeat. Try this delicious mini star topped mince pies recipe for a tasty treat. 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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Prepare 240 Grams plain flour
- Prepare 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
- Make ready 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
- Make ready 1 orange , juice only
- Take 1 Pinch salt
- Make ready 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
- Prepare Icing sugar
Le mince pie sono dolcetti tipici della tradizione natalizia anglosassone. O si amano o si odiano, io le trovo deliziose per il mio palato. Sono piccole tortine di pasta frolla farcite con la mince meat (letteralmente significa carne macinata), ma in queste tortine. For the mince pies: sift the flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Steps to make Star Topped Mince Pies:
- Sift the flour into a shallow bowl, and add small mounds of crisco.
- Add the butter, shake to cover it and place in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes.
- Mix the orange juice and salt in a separate bowl. cover and leave in the fridge to chill.
- Rub the chilled flour in between your fingers to form crumb-like pieces. gradually add the chilled orange juice and bring the dough together.
- 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.
- Turn the mixture out onto a clean floured worktop and knead together to a ball.
- Divide the dough and shape into three equal sized disks.
- Wrap each in plastic and rest in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C.
- Remove a disk from the fridge and roll out thinly on a clean, floured worktop.
- 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).
- Place each circle in the tart tin, and fill with about a teaspoon (heaped) of mincemeat.
- Re-roll the scraps, and cut out 12 star shapes and place onto the pies.
- 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).
- Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Repeat the steps till all the dough is used up (this recipe makes 36 pies, so thats three cycles).
- Dust the cooled pies with confectioners sugar. serve!
Sono piccole tortine di pasta frolla farcite con la mince meat (letteralmente significa carne macinata), ma in queste tortine. 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. 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.
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