D&C Monthly Recipes - Christmas Tarts🎄

Best-Ever Christmas Mince Tarts

INGREDIENTS:

• ½ x 400 g tub fruit mince

• ½ peeled and grated apple
• ¼ cup slivered almonds, toasted
• ½ tsp  Ground Mixed Spice
• ½ tsp  Ground Cinnamon
• 2 sheets ready rolled sweet short pastry, thawed
• Icing sugar, to dust

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan bake), or 200°C (conventional). Mix together fruit mince, grated apple, slivered almonds, Ground Mixed Spice and  Ground Cinnamon.

2. Using a round cutter, cut out pastry circles approximately 6 cm diameter and carefully press into Shallow Tart  tins. Cut out small stars using a star cutter. Re-roll the pastry if necessary.
3. Fill the pastry lined tins with the fruit mince. Place a pastry star on the top.
4. Bake for approximately 15 minutes until the pastry is golden. Allow tarts to cool a little before lifting them out onto a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar before serving.