Recipe Needed For Mince Pies With Icing On Top

Muzikmaster

Hi everybody, I really love the ones you can buy in Asda and Tesco but I fancy making them myself but can't find a recipe for them. Can you help me out please?
Thanks

ALIBOBSY

Not sure what kind of mince pies you are taking about, are these ones simular to say cherry bakewells with a thick layer of icing ontop of the filling?

Or are they just normal mince pies with icing on. TBH there are many, many recipes its basically a shortcrust pastry with either homemade or bought "mincemeat" filling.

This year I am also trying those pinwheel things-normal made with cinnamon/butter/sugar in the swirl, made with dried cranberries in the dough and mince meat in the middle, rolled and cut. Then once baked drizzled with white icing yum yum.

I will be making my mince pies shortly in a big lot and freezing them in batches. They don't take long to defrost and a quick zap in the micro or warm in an oven and they taste like freshly baked nom nom.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

I can see on the tesco website they have some that are like the bakewells. So you make a shortcrust pastry which you cut and line your baking tray with-looks like quite deep pies so a muffin tray would be better than a traditional shallower UK pie tray. Add a filling of mince meat and then bake-sort of mincemeat jam tarts-you might have to watch the filling doesn't burn cooked like this, but should be ok, if worried could part bake the cases, add the filling and finish off together. I have made mince pies with a lattice top or partly open with a cut out on top-e.g a pastry star or heart etc so reckon it would be ok.

Once cooked you will need to cool. Then you would make a fondant icing, you would need to make quite a soft/runny fondant to pour on top, then let set. You can buy packets of fondant icing to mix yourself or make your own from scratch, I reckon the roll out stuff would be too fiddly and the stuff on those pies looks like it has been poured on not cut and added on.

Good Luck

Ali x