Christmas Fruit Mince Pies

Fruit mince pie is a small spicy sweet fruit pie traditionally served during the Christmas season made with a spicy dried fruit mince mix baked in shortbread.

Ingredients

Shortbread

Fruit mince
Icing sugar
Chocolate

Method

Roll shortbread out to 3 mm thickness and fill the bottom of some small pie tins. Place some fruit mince mixture in the bottom and cover with more shortbread or a piped biscuit mixture. Sprinkle some white sugar on top and bake in a preheated 180ºC oven normal bake for approx. 15 minutes. Allow cooling before decorating with chocolate and icing sugar.

Note: Fruit mince can be bought in most supermarkets.