Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, star topped mince pies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Star Topped Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Star Topped Mince Pies is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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:

1. Take plain flour
2. Make ready shortening vegetable (i use crisco)
3. Make ready butter , cold , cut into small cubes
4. Prepare orange , juice only
5. Take salt
6. Make ready mincemeat christmas
7. Get Icing sugar

Hi there, I was thinking about putting the Star Topped Mince Pies in my Christmas hampers. Do you know how far in advance I could make these? Would love to be able to freeze the pastry and then make them up a week before Xmas or something. These mince pies are buttery, crumbly, a little bit naughty and a whole lot nice!

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!

Santa will be pleased when you leave him some of these out with a glass of milk (or rum)! This is probably the first year where I have made every little part of my Paleo Mince Pies. The combination…. utterly delicious mince pie perfection! So get some Christmas tunes on, pop on that apron and let's bake some scrumptious star topped mince pies! Carefully transfer the hot mince pies to a cooling rack.

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