Buy Geraldine’s home-made mince meat (made using Cosgrove’s quality Christmas fruit) and follow the simple recipe below to create the most scrumptious mince pies this Christmas!!
Geraldine’s Christmas Mince Pies
- Preheat oven to 180C (Fan oven)
- Grease pie tin with soft/ melted butter (grease full tin, including top surface)
- Sprinkle tin all over with flour to stop mince pie meat sticking to tin
- Roll out your pre-prepared pastry on a floured work surface (1/8” thick)
- Making 12 a time, cut out 12 base circles with the large cutter
- Smooth bases into the tin
- Fill with a heaped teaspoon of mince-meat and flatten with the back of the spoon (don’t over fill to avoid mince-meat spilling out during cooking)
- Cut out 12 mince pie tops with the smaller cutter
- Place tops on the mince pies and press in firmly
- Brush the top of the mince pies with a beaten egg
- Bake in the oven for 12-14 minutes until pale golden
- Remove from the oven
- If you have any spilled over mince-meat, scrap or wipe away
- Leave to cool in the tin for 6 minutes
- Gently twist in the tin and remove to place on a wire rack
- When completely cool, sprinkle with icing sugar
ENJOY!!