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Healthier Mince Pies

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes

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.

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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: apples, christmas, healthydessert