Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a awesome dish, easy shortbread mince pies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Easy Shortbread Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Easy Shortbread Mince Pies is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy shortbread mince pies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:

1. Make ready 225 g/8oz cold butter, diced
2. Get 350 g/12oz plain flour, sifted
3. Make ready 100 g/3.5oz golden caster sugar
4. Prepare Pinch salt
5. Prepare 280 g/10oz mincemeat
6. Make ready 1 small egg
7. Prepare icing sugar, to dust

Brush the tops of the pies with the beaten egg. Serve warm or cold, lightly dusted with icing sugar if you wish. Ideally the fruit mince would be homemade, but there is nothing wrong with using a good bought one - I often do. And although the end result may not be look quite as whimsical as bite-sized mince pies, it does look very pretty and Christmassy in its own way, with its lacy shortbread top and dusting of icing sugar.

Instructions to make Easy Shortbread Mince Pies:

1. In a large bowl, add the cold diced butter to the sifted flour.
2. To make the pastry, rub together with your fingers until combined. Then mix in 100g golden caster sugar and a pinch of salt.
3. Combine the pastry into a ball – don’t add liquid – and knead it briefly. The dough will be fairly firm, like shortbread dough. You can use the dough immediately, or chill for later.
4. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C/392F. Line 18 holes of two 12-hole patty tins, by pressing small walnut-sized balls of pastry into each hole.
5. Spoon 280g mincemeat into the pies.
6. Take slightly smaller balls of pastry than before and pat them out between your hands to make round lids, big enough to cover the pies. Top the pies with their lids, pressing the edges gently together to seal – you don’t need to seal them with milk or egg as they will stick on their own. (The pies may now be frozen for up to 1 month).
7. Beat 1 small egg and brush the tops of the pies.
8. Bake for 20 mins until golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins, then remove to a wire rack.
9. To serve, lightly dust with icing sugar. They will keep for 3 to 4 days in an airtight container.

An easy alternative to mince pies. Give mince pies a makeover with this alternative recipe - all the festive flavour. So easy it could possibly not even be classed as a recipe! The best thing is, this mince pie is topped with a shortbread crumble opposed to pastry! Shortbreads: I n a separate bowl whisk the flour with the salt.

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