Fruit mince pies

Name: Fruit mince pies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup plain flour; 2 tbsp custard powder; 1/4 cup icing sugar; 125 grams cold butter,chopped; 1 egg yolk; 2 tbsp cold water; 2 jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own

debbie @cook_3270069

Western Australia

I make these every year for christmas, I also make my own fruit mince and give them as gifts to friends.

debbie @cook_3270069

Western Australia

I make these every year for christmas, I also make my own fruit mince and give them as gifts to friends.

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Ingredients

PASTRY
1 1/2 cupplain flour
2 tbspcustard powder
1/4 cupicing sugar
125 gramscold butter,chopped
1egg yolk
2 tbspcold water
FRUIT MINCE
2jars of store brought fruit mince, or you can make your own

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Steps

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Put in food processor flour,custard powder,icing sugar and butter.process until crumbly.
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Add egg yolk and water and blitz to make ingredients just cling together.
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Tip on bench and knead dough lightly,then wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 mins(I roll mine first before I put in refrigerator)
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After 30 mins roll pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 3mm thickness
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Using a round pastry cutter,cut out about 24 rounds of pastry from dough.
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Grease two 12 hole patty pans
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Place rounds into greased patty pans
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Place fruit mince in pastry cases and top with any left over rounds of pastry or make stars out of left over pastry.
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Bake in moderate oven around 180 degress celsius for about 15-20 mins, until pastry has lighly browned.
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Remove from oven let stand in pan for 10 mins,then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool completely.
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When cool sift icing sugar over top of pies.
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Give as Christmas gifts.....like the crap ap' cookpad gave to us for Christmas.
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