Fruit Mince Pies with Butter Biscuit Topping

A fruit mince pie is a small sweet pie usually served during the Christmas season made with a spicy fruit mix baked in shortbread. These pies have a vanilla and butter biscuit topping.

Ingredients

Shortbread

Fruit mince
Melted dark chocolate

Icing sugar

Topping

350 g unsalted butter
170 g caster sugar
1 egg
400 g plain flour
1 tsp. vanilla sugar

Method

Roll shortbread out to 3 mm thickness and fill the bottom of some small pie tins. Place some fruit mince in the bottom. To make the biscuit dough for the top, place butter, vanilla and sugar in a bowl and cream until light. Add egg and mix evenly. Blend in flour until evenly mixed. Pipe the biscuit mixture on top of the fruit mince using a star nozzle. Bake in a preheated 180ºC oven for approx. 15 minutes. Allow cooling before piping with melted dark chocolate and sift icing sugar on top.

Note: Fruit mince can be bought in most supermarkets.