These healthier mince pies are here to steal the spotlight this festive season! With just five ingredients and a few spices, they’re perfect for anyone—beginner bakers included—looking for an easier, lighter twist on the classic recipe.
Juicy apples, zesty orange, and a fragrant mix of spices create a deliciously homemade mincemeat filling. Toasted almonds add a nutty crunch, and pre-made shortcrust pastry makes them quick to assemble.
Bite-sized, golden, and bursting with festive flavour, these mince pies are the perfect treat for the holiday season. Simple to make, healthier than store-bought, and absolutely buonissimo!
Healthier Mince Pies
Ingredients
- 3 apples ~280g
- 130 g dry fruit mix
- 1 orange juice and zest
- 40 g almonds toasted and chopped
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp gingerbread spice mix*
- 1 sheet shortcrust pastry
Instructions
- Chop the apple in very small cubes.
- In a pan add: chopped apples, cinnamon and gingerbread spice mix, dry fruit mix, orange (zest of 1 orange and 1/2 of the juice).
- Cook until the liquid has completely evaporated.
- With a hand blender mix half of it. Then mix.
- Add the chopped almonds.
- On a surface flat out the shortcrust pastry and with a glass cut out the pastry (the size need to be just a bit bigger than your muffin tin holes).
- Cut out the stars.
- It’s now time to bake the shortcrust pastry.
- Add some muffins mould on top and then the beans. Bake for 25 mins at 150C.
- Bake for further 5 mins at 180C with the beans out.
- Add 2 tbsp of “mince meat” into the cups and layer the start on top. Bake for 17 mins at 180C
- Sprinkle some optional icing sugar.