Star Topped Mince Pies
Star Topped Mince Pies

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. 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.

Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Star Topped Mince Pies is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Get 240 Grams plain flour
  2. Prepare 60 Grams shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
  3. Get 60 Grams butter , cold , cut into small cubes
  4. Take 1 orange , juice only
  5. Get 1 Pinch salt
  6. Make ready 350 Grams mincemeat christmas
  7. Get Icing sugar

I suspect because they have come to symbolise Christmas and all the festive cheer that goes with it; twinkling fairy lights, the jingle of sleigh bells, the smell of pine needles and the sight of presents under the tree. Traditional Christmas fruit mince pies recipes - with a twist, providing you with a delicious Christmas treat. Then cut out stars with a small star cutter from the dough and place lightly on top of the mincemeat. For the mince pies: sift the flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

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!

Line the tins with the dough. Stamp out mini stars from the re-rolled trimmings. All-star Nigella Christmas: Star-topped mince pies. Le mince pie sono dolcetti tipici della tradizione natalizia anglosassone. O si amano o si odiano, io le trovo deliziose per il mio palato.

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