Easy mince pies with crunchy crumble tops
The recipe Easy mince pies with crunchy crumble tops can be made in about 47 minutes. This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe serves 15 and costs 64 cents per serving. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 5g of fat, and a total of 172 calories. 40 people have made this recipe and would make it again. If you have plain flour, whole almonds, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is brought to you by BBC Good Food. Overall, this recipe earns an improvable spoonacular score of 8%. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Crumble-topped mince pies, Mince Pies, and Little Eccles mince pies.
Servings: 15
Preparation duration: 25 minutes
Cooking duration: 22 minutes
Ingredients:
200g apricot jam
25ml brandy
50g butter, cut into cubes
300g dried mixed fruit
1 egg yolk
100g plain flour
50g whole almonds, roughly chopped
Equipment:
food processor
knife
oven
Cooking instruction summary:
Put the dried fruit and jam in a smallpan, heat until melted together, thenstir in the brandy and cool. Heat ovento 200C/180C fan/gas 6.For the pastry, set aside 2 tbsp flourand put the rest plus the butter in a foodprocessor. Whizz until there are nolumps of butter. Pulse in the egg yolk,followed by a tbsp of water at a time,until the dough comes together – you’llprobably need 2 tbsp. (If you don’t havea food processor, rub butter into the flourwith your fingers, then stir in the yolk andwater with a round-bladed knife.) Usethe reserved flour to roll out the pastryto just over the thickness of a £1 coin.Stamp circles with an 8cm cutter andpress into holes of a bun tin – you shouldget 15 from re-rolling the trimmings.Divide the fruit amongst the pies, thenbake for 5 mins while you rub together allthe crumble ingredients with your fingers.Top each pie with crumble, then returnto the oven for 15 mins until pastry andcrumble are golden. Eat warm or colddusted with icing sugar.
Step by step:
1. Put the dried fruit and jam in a smallpan, heat until melted together, thenstir in the brandy and cool.
2. Heat ovento 200C/180C fan/gas 6.For the pastry, set aside 2 tbsp flourand put the rest plus the butter in a foodprocessor. Whizz until there are nolumps of butter. Pulse in the egg yolk,followed by a tbsp of water at a time,until the dough comes together – you’llprobably need 2 tbsp. (If you don’t havea food processor, rub butter into the flourwith your fingers, then stir in the yolk andwater with a round-bladed knife.) Usethe reserved flour to roll out the pastryto just over the thickness of a £1 coin.Stamp circles with an 8cm cutter andpress into holes of a bun tin – you shouldget 15 from re-rolling the trimmings.Divide the fruit amongst the pies, thenbake for 5 mins while you rub together allthe crumble ingredients with your fingers.Top each pie with crumble, then returnto the oven for 15 mins until pastry andcrumble are golden. Eat warm or colddusted with icing sugar.
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