Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Almond Crumble Mince Pies

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Almond Crumble Mince Pies is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Almond Crumble Mince Pies is something which I have loved my entire life.

In a small bowl, make the crumble topping by rubbing the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and almonds. With a teaspoon, fill each pastry case with mincemeat, gently pressing it down to leave room for the topping. You know when you really want a mince pie?

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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. Prepare plain flour
2. Prepare butter (usually pastry is half fat to flour but I use extra for added buttery crispness)
3. Take caster sugar
4. Get ground cinnamon
5. Prepare 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. Make ready plain flour
9. Get butter, at room temperature
10. Make ready demerara sugar
11. Make ready ground cinnamon
12. Make ready flaked almonds

These mince pies are slightly more complicated than usual but because they have a crumble topping are actually easier to construct. The combination of sweet crisp pastry, rum soaked mincemeat (see separate recipe) and buttery, almondy topping is really. Combine dried fruit, sugar, apple, Grand Marnier, spice, rind and jam in a large bowl. Mincemeat Shortbread Squares with Almond Crumble are a great alternative to mince pies at Christmas.

Steps 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.

Combine dried fruit, sugar, apple, Grand Marnier, spice, rind and jam in a large bowl. Mincemeat Shortbread Squares with Almond Crumble are a great alternative to mince pies at Christmas. Incredibly quick and easy, there's no pastry to make and no cutting and rolling out. A substantial, buttery shortbread base is covered in rich mincemeat, topped with a spiced crumble studded with oats and flaked almonds. Measure the flour, almonds, sugar, butter and vanilla seeds into the bowl of a food processor.

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