2tbspverjuice(can sub for 2 tbsp white wine vinegar)
1pinchsalt
1tspground cinnamon
1/2tspground cardamom
1/4tspground clove
1/4tspground nutmeg
1/2tspfresh ground ginger
3tbspbrandy 60ml
2tbspwater40ml
50gblanched hazelnutsroughly crushed
Other
Icing sugar for decorating
Instructions
Pastry
Add flour, salt, sugar and lemon zest into a bowl and mix.
Add vegan butter to the bowl and rub the butter and flour between your fingers until everything is combined.
Add a few tablespoons of water if needed and lightly kneed the dough until just combined.
Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for at least 30minutes.
Filling
While the pastry dough is in the fridge, add all the filling ingredients into a medium sized sauce pan and heat it up.
Cover the pan and cook the filling for about 10 minutes on low heat. Stir the filling from time to time to make sure that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. After ca. 10 minutes the filling should be nice and thick. Let it cool until the dough has been rested enough to be rolled out.
Bringing everything together
Heat up the oven to 200°C and prepare your muffin tray. Oil the tray and cut out little baking paper strips to lie inside each hole to ensure the pies won't stick to the tray while baking.
Sprinkle a little flour onto a flat surface and roll out the dough. The dough will be slightly crumbly. It has to be like that to be the right texture once baked.
With a round cookie cutter, stencil out pieces of dough and press them lightly into the muffin tray.
Fill each pie with about 1 tbsp of filling.
Decorate the pies with some extra dough, stenciled out into stars or any other shape you like.
Bake the pies for 15-20 minutes. Then take out and let cool down completely before dusting it with icing sugar.
Notes
*you don't need all the different dried fruits to make delicious mince pies. These are the fruits I like to add to mine, but if you can't find some of them then don't worry. Just supplement with different ones. As long as your dried fruit mix is reaching ca. 400g you'll be just fine :)
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