Recipe of Ultimate Almond Crumble Mince Pies

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, almond crumble mince pies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Almond Crumble Mince Pies is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Almond Crumble Mince Pies is something which I have loved my whole life.

Few tips for Almond Pastry Mince Pies success! Almond shortcrust pastry in this recipe is very short and rich which makes it quite crumbly but manageable. To ensure that your mince pies don't fall apart simply Delicious little pies that combine an orange short crust pastry base with mincemeat filling and an almond crumble topping. Eat the mini mince pies warm or cold, lightly dusted with icing sugar and served with whipped cream or brandy butter.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have almond crumble mince pies using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Almond Crumble Mince Pies:

1. Get plain flour
2. Make ready butter (usually pastry is half fat to flour but I use extra for added buttery crispness)
3. Make ready caster sugar
4. Make ready ground cinnamon
5. Get egg yolk
6. Make ready Last-minute Christmas mincemeat https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/480570-last-minute-christmas-mincemeat?ref=recipe
7. Get For the streusel topping:
8. Take plain flour
9. Prepare butter, at room temperature
10. Prepare demerara sugar
11. Take ground cinnamon
12. Get flaked almonds

The Almond Crumble pies are well filled with juicy fruity, lightly spiced filling and topped with an almondy, nutty crumble. The star of the show for our testers though, was the Toffee Nut Florentine mince pie. These tiny perfectly formed pies are well filled with dried fruit mincemeat and topped with. She's made enough to last the whole Christmas season and will be using it to make some mince pies today.

Instructions to make Almond Crumble Mince Pies:

1. Put the flour, butter and cinnamon in a food processor and gradually pulse until you have a mixture the texture of fine breadcrumbs. You can also do this by hand using your finger tips to rub the butter into the flour.
2. Add the sugar and egg yolk, and about 2 tbsp water. Pulse until the dough starts to form.
3. When the pastry looks like this, tip it out onto a floured surface and use your hands to gently bring together into a ball. Flatten, wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.
4. For the streusel topping, place the flour, butter, sugar and cinnamon in a food processor and pulse to fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the flaked almonds.
5. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Roll out the chilled pastry and cut out circles of dough big enough to line bun tins, there was enough pastry to make 24, but I had one deep set of tins and one shallow set.
6. Half fill the shells with mincemeat, then sprinkle the streusel mixture over to cover. Sprinkle a few slivered almonds on the top of each and then bake in the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes until golden.
7. Allow to sit in the tins for about 5 to 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire tray. Serve warm, dusted with icing sugar and topped with a spoonful of brandy cream.

These tiny perfectly formed pies are well filled with dried fruit mincemeat and topped with. She's made enough to last the whole Christmas season and will be using it to make some mince pies today. If you would like to make some yourself, storing it in sterilised jars will make it last a very long time indeed! Top mince pies with crumble mix instead of pastry. Put the butter, flour, salt, almonds, half the zest, cinnamon and sugar into a food processor and blitz until you have a mixture that resembles breadcrumbs.

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