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Try these quick and easy puff pastry mince pies, then check out our classic mince pies, vegan mince pies, frangipane mince pies, gingerbread men and more Christmas baking recipes. Also make our delicious homemade brandy butter to accompany your mince pies.


How to make puff pastry mince pies... step-by-step video


Ingredients

  • 320g sheet puff pastry
  • for dusting plain flour
  • 250g mincemeat
  • 1 tbsp spiced rum, (optional)
  • 20g pecans, chopped (optional)
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • ½ tbsp demerara sugar
  • ¼ tsp ground cinnamon

Method

  • STEP 1

    Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Unravel the pastry sheet on its baking paper, lightly scatter with flour and roll out with a rolling pin to make it slightly thinner. Cut out eight 8cm circles using a round cutter, then press these into the holes of a non-stick fairy cake tin. Re-roll the pastry, if needed, and stamp out eight 6cm circles (these will be the lids).

  • STEP 2

    Mix the mincemeat with the rum and pecans, if using, then spoon this into the pastry cases. Brush a little of the beaten egg around the exposed pastry edges, then top with the lids, pressing lightly to seal. Cut a small steam hole in the top of each pie using the tip of a sharp knife.

  • STEP 3

    Brush the tops of the pies with more of the beaten egg. Mix together the sugar and cinnamon, then sprinkle this over the pies and bake for 25 minutes until golden and puffed up. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

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Anna GloverSenior food editor
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