Sorry I haven't posted in a while but here is a new Christmassy blog post. I am one of the many people that goes way over the top for Christmas simply because I love it.
I go all out decorating the Christmas tree in colour theme (though this can be hard due to the amount of random baubles that I have). Last year I made some amazing mince pies which I was very proud of; I even made the pastry. So I thought that it was about time that I posted this mince pie recipe. They have a slight twist as they are slightly orange infused.
Ingredients:
For the pastry:
500g of strong white plain flour
175g of caster sugar
375g of unsalted butter
Juice and rind of 1 large orange
Filling:
550g of mincemeat
Rind and zest of 1/2 a lemon
Method:
1. Start by making the pastry, sift the flour and the sugar into the bowl. Then chop the butter up into cubes and then use your fingers to rub the flour, sugar and butter together. Keep doing this until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Using a spoon, mix in the orange rind and then the juice of the orange until it forms a dough. Then wrap in cling film and put in the fridge for 30 mins.
3. Preheat the oven to 220C. Then in a different bowl mix the lemon juice and rind and the mincemeat.
4. Take the pastry out of the fridge and roll out as thick of about 2 £1 coins. Then using a pastry cutter that is about 7.5 cm in diameter, cut out 24 disks. With the rest of the pastry cut out stars which will be the tops of the pastries.
5. Grease a cupcake/muffin tin and then put each disk of pastry in each cupcake hole.
6. Then spoon the mincemeat mixture into the pastry cases. Then top with the stars and brush the mince pies with milk.
7. Pop into the oven and leave for 15-20 mins before taking out. Then leave to cool before taking them out of the muffin tin.
8. Dust with icing sugar and they are ready to serve or you can reheat them in the oven and serve them with ice cream or custard.
I hope that you enjoyed this super festive recipe!!
Anja xx
