Ingredients

• 300g plain flour, plus more for dusting
• 200g butter
• 100g icing sugar
• 3 tbsp cold water
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 jar mincemeat

  Preparation

Put all  the ingredients,  into your bowl except the mincemeat. Rub the ingredients together until you have a smooth pastry dough. Shape into a ball and wrap in cling film, put in fridge for 30 minutes.

Take the pastry from the fridge and on a well floured work surface roll it out to 3mm thick. Then cut the pastry into round shapes  larger than the pie holes

Fill each pie with mincemeat  (not too much or it’ll boil out ). You can leave your mince pies open or roll out some more pastry and place a round lid on top, or cut out small stars to decorate the top

Then bake in the preheated (220°C) oven until  turn golden (12-15 minutes). Allow to cool  before eating.

You can sprinkle the pies with some sugar or even icing sugar

You can freeze the leftover of your pastry wrapped in some cling film,to use another other time.

Merry Christmas !!!