Vegan Mince Pies
Very easy vegan mince pie recipe with 4 ingredients!
Ingredients
- 250 g plain flour
- 120 g vegan spread or butter
- 50 g granulated sugar caster sugar is fine as well
- a jar mincemeat I used about 280 g out of a jar of 411 g mincemeat
Instructions
- In a bowl, rub the butter into the flour until crumbly texture. Stir the sugar and mix. Drop 1 tea spoon of cold water and try form a ball of dough. You do not need to knead, just put the flour together into a ball.
- If your flour mixture is still dry, add another tea spoon of cold water and see if you can form a ball. When adding the cold water, please add little by little and allow a few seconds for the flour mixture to absorb the water before deciding to add more. You don't want to make the dough too soft and sticky!
- Wrap the ball of dough in clingfilm and let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (gas mark 6). Grease your pie tin.
- Spread some flour on your work surface to prevent sticking. Roll out half the pastry and cut circle shapes with a larger cookie cutters. Line the pie tin with the circles and put in 1 tsp of mincemeat.
- Roll out the remaining pastry and cut circles with the smaller cutters to make the tops. Place them on top of each pie and gently press around the edge to seal. Make a few tiny holes on top for the air to come out while baking.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
- When they come out from the oven, leave in the tin to cool and dust the top with icing sugar if you wan to.