XMAS MINCE PIES
This mince pies are really devine…
Pastry:
2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
½ cup sugar
125 g butter (i use stork bake)
Fruit mince
Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla and egg. sift flour, salt, baking powder and add to the creamed mixture. Must be soft. Divide pastry in half, one half make little balls and press into your pan with a cookie press or the bottom of a glass dipped in flour. Then you add your 1 teaspoon full of fruit mince and then grate the rest of the pastry over the top.
Bake at 180º for about 15 minutes. If too pale for your liking leave in over a tad longer. Let it cool and remove from baking tray. Dust with icing sugar and enjoy! The pastry will be like a shortbread pastry once baked.
PS – Makes about 2 doz – i double the quantities and i make 4 doz at a time! hope you will all enjoy it. Recipe came from my mom.
Recipe: May van der Merwe
