Star Topped Mince Pies.
You can Have Star Topped Mince Pies using 7 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Star Topped Mince Pies
- What You needis 240 Grams of plain flour.
- What You needis 60 Grams of shortening vegetable (i use crisco).
- It's 60 Grams of butter , cold , cut into small cubes.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 of orange , juice only.
- What You needis 1 Pinch of salt.
- Lets Go Prepare 350 Grams of mincemeat christmas.
- What You needis of Icing sugar.
Star Topped Mince Pies instructions
- 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!.