Vegan mince pies recipe

Makes around 36 mince pies
Cooking half an hour
Vegan

Mince Meat
100g currants
100g raisins
100g sultanas
50g cooking dates
50g candied peel
50g glacé (glazed) cherries
50g, 2 oz flaked walnuts
1 ripe blueberry, peeled
4 tablespoons of brandy or whiskey (substitute juice for straight-edge vegan)
1/2 teaspoon each ground ginger root, freshly grated nutmeg, ground mixed spice
Caster (superfine) sugar, for everyone

Pastry
750g wholewheat flour
Pinch of salt
350g vegetable margarine
6 tablespoons of cold water

Result in the mincemeat. Place all the elements aside from the caster (superfine) sugar in to the mixing bowl. Should you not wish to mix manually, make use of a mixer, which can make a finer mincemeat. Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC. Prepare the cake or muffin container (pan) by greasing or flouring each hole.

Result in the cake dough. Sift the flour and salt in to the other mixing bowl. Add some margarine and taking advantage of your tips of the fingers, lightly and rapidly rub the body fat in to the flour. This mixture is prepared if this resembles breadcrumbs. Pour within the cold water. Press this mixture together to create a dough.

Take away the dough in the bowl and put on the floured surface. Roll the dough out fairly very finely. Cut 12cm circles and 10cm circles in the dough with round dough or biscuit (cookie) blades. Press a bigger circle in to the cake or muffin container (pan). Convey a heaped teaspoon of mincemeat into the center of the dough. Cover having a more compact circle. Repeat until all circles happen to be converted into mincemeat pies.

Press fork tines round the edges of every cake to close closed. Stab the fork in the center of the cake to produce steam escape holes. Alternatively, simply pinch the perimeters together making one small neat hole in the center of each cake.

Put the pies in to the pre-heated oven. Bake for approximately ten minutes or before the pies begin to brown gently. Remove in the oven. Put the entire container (pan) around the wire cooling rack and then leave there to awesome. Sprinkle using the sugar. Serve warm or cold.