Easy florentine mince pies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 14
Ingredients
- 115g mincemeat (ensure vegetarian, if needed)
- 1 orange, zested
- 1 1⁄2 tbsp bourbon or orange juice
- 30g ground almonds
- 60g glacé cherries, roughly chopped
- 375g sheet of ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp demerara sugar
- 50g dark chocolate
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line a large baking sheet with baking parchment. Mix the mincemeat, orange zest, bourbon or orange juice, ground almonds and cherries together in a medium bowl.
- STEP 2
Unravel the pastry on its baking parchment and stamp out as many circles as you can using an 8cm round cutter. Re-roll the offcuts and stamp out more circles until all the pastry has been used (you should get about 14 in total). Spoon 1 tsp of the mincemeat mixture into the middle of each circle, leaving a 2cm border. Gently fold the edges of the exposed pastry inwards to slightly cover the filling.
- STEP 3
Transfer the pies to the lined baking sheet, spaced slightly apart. Brush the pastry with the milk and sprinkle with the sugar. Bake for 18-20 mins until golden brown, then leave to cool slightly.
- STEP 4
While the pies cool, put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and melt in 20-second bursts in the microwave, or melt in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, ensuring the bowl isn’t touching the water. Drizzle over the pies before serving. Will keep in an airtight container for three days.
