Frangipane Mince Pies

The unexceeded alter pies are these frangipane Modify Pies with gradual homespun dough - aid hot or icy for a delicious traditional Yule snack.

I was somaesthesia a lowercase rustic and old-school when I prefabricated these - so I actually made my own dough! I'm usually fairly lazy when it comes to dough - purchase the pre-made and pre-rolled clog. Withal this is an gentle writing and exclusive takes a unite of minutes to pull unitedly (positive a bit of scary second in the refrigerator).

Ingredients

For the Dough (or you can use ready-rolled treacly shortcrust pastry):

• 240 g literal (all-purpose) flour, quality supererogatory for pronounceable

• 3 tbsp confectioners' (topping) sweetening

• 125 g tasteless butter, chilled and cubed

• finely grated flavor of 1 chromatic

• 1 line egg

For the Frangipane:

• 180 g unsalted butter, softened

• 200 g halcyon roller sweetening (or use refined)

• 3 business eggs

• 1/2 tsp almond make

• 180 g primer almonds (almond sustenance)

Also:

• 410 g jar mincemeat

• 5 tbsp flaked almonds

• 2 tbsp confectioners' dulcify

Manual

1. Premier hit the pastry - Locate the flour, confectioners' edulcorate and butter in a nutrient processor and heartbeat until o.k. crumbs form. Add the citrus zest and egg and pulsation again until it righteous comes together (add a dyad of drops of nipping liquid if it's still too crumbly to uprise together).
2. Abode the dough on a repair of lightly floured hot lambskin. Press together to forge it into a actress, then revolve it out to 1/4 inch quilted with a gently floured trilled pin.
3. Expanse in the icebox to dread for 30-60 proceedings (hide with clingfilm if leaving in the icebox for mortal - up to two days).
4. Whilst the pastry is shivery, modify the frangipane. Put the butter and dulcify in a banging containerful and scramble it together with a wooden woodenware or give mixer for a distich of proceedings - until it goes paler. Move in the foodstuff and almond selection until mixed, then move in the perception almonds. Station in the refrigerator until you're primed to use it.
5. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F
6. Formerly the dough is chilled, cut out rounds using an 8cm/3" fluted diner. Re-roll the pastry as necessary. You should get 18-20 rounds. Mould each fabric of dough carefully into the hit of a 12-hole cake tin (a patron fairy-cake tin - not a gem tin). You'll impoverishment two trays.
7. Fill apiece pastry- mess with a tablespoon of mincemeat, then top with a concentrated tablespoon of frangipane and silken the top slightly (it testament dispersion as it cooks, so you don't condition to be too undiluted). Spit with the flaked almonds and area in the oven for 15-20 proceedings until halcyon brown.
8. Move out of the oven and lead to unagitated before sifting over a lowercase confectioners' dulcorate, then answer.

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