Vegan Mince Pies
You don't have to miss out on a traditional mince pie just because you eat a plant based diet thanks to my Vegan Mince Pie Recipe!
Servings: 12 people
Ingredients
- 200 grams plain flour
- 50 grams caster sugar
- 50 grams non-dairy butter e.g. Flora or Naturli
- 50 grams vegetable shortening e.g. Trex
- 45 millilitres cold water (3 tablespoons)
- 1 jar mincemeat
- 50 millilitres soy milk
- icing sugar to dust
Instructions
- Sieve your flour and caster sugar into a large mixing bowl.
- Cut the non-dairy butter and vegetable shortening into cubes.
- Rub the fat into the flour by pushing the fat and flour through your finger tips.
- Once the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs (and there are no large lumps of fat) add the water and stir until the mix begins to bind.
- To bring it all together, use your hands to form it into a ball. You may need a little more water to get it to bind together properly but don’t worry just go with your instincts!
- Next place the ball of pastry in a bowl cover with clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
- While the pastry is resting, pre-heat your oven to 180C / 350F/ gas mark 4.
- After 15 minutes, dust a work surface with flour and cut the ball into two pieces - one representing one third of the pastry the other two thirds.
- Roll out the larger pastry ball until a quarter of a centimetre thick and using a large round cutter, cut out 12 bases.
- Gather the scraps together and roll out again as and when you need to.
- Do the same with the small ball of pastry using a cutter one size smaller than before. Cut out another 12 pieces, these will be your lids! (Alternatively use a star cutter for more decorative pies.)
- Grease cupcake tins and place the larger circles into the pans.
- Fill with a tablespoon of mincemeat and brush the edges with a little soy milk before placing the lids on top.
- Prick the lids with a fork and brush again with more soy milk.
- Place in the oven for 15 minutes or until golden, turning round halfway through.
- Once they are done pop on a cooling rack and dust with icing sugar.