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Simple Mince Pies♥

Not long until Christmas now! So what better way to begin Christmas, than with a Mince Pie?

What You Need | Ingredients 

100g - Plain Flour

50g - Butter (unsalted)

2 tablespoons - Cold water

Mincemeat

How To Do | Method

This recipe is really simple. You can make these simple Mince Pies in less than 30 minutes with this quick&easy recipe!
First, grease a cupcake tray. The tray shouldn't be very deep, the tray should look like this (picture isn't mine, I can remove if it belongs to you). You can grease using a light amount of butter or baking parchment. 
After you've done that, begin to make your pastry. Sieve the Flour into a medium sized mixing bowl and then add the cubes of butter. 
How I make my pastry is by using a spatula to really blend the two ingredients together. You use your fingers to make breadcrumb sizes first, then use the spatula to get a ball of pastry. You could even use your electric whisk! I used all three in stages. 

When you have a ball of pastry, flour your surface and your rolling pin. Then, begin to roll your pastry until you have the thickness you want. Do not do them too thin because they might crumble easy and not hold the mincemeat. You want quite a thick pastry.
Use round pastry cutters (cookie cutters) to cut the pastry out. Make sure they're round and they're the same size - or slightly bigger - than your pastry tray. Also make sure you cut the same amount of bottoms as you do tops! I used a star shape cutter for my pastry top.
Then, when you have cut all the pastry out, put the pastry into the tray and scoop a reasonable sized spoon of mincemeat into the base of the pastry. I used one tablespoon to do mine.. you might want less! When done, pop the star shaped pastry onto the top and sprinkle with sugar! Pop into the oven and enjoy! Cook until golden.