Christmas Fruit Mince Tarts. Makes 24 Short Crust Pastry what you need: 300g Unbleached Organic Plain Flour 150g Organic Butter, softened 1 Tbs Rapadura Sugar (can substitute with Castor sugar) Pinch of sea salt 100ml cold water what you do: Combine flour, butter, sugar & salt in a food processor or mix by hand until a crumble mixture forms. Add water and mix to a form a pastry dough. Divide the pastry dough into two, wrap each in baking paper and refrigerate whilst preparing the fruit mince. Fruit Mince what you need: 200g Organic Sultanas 100g Organic Raisins 50g Organic Currants 100g fresh apricots (stones removed) 1 Tbs ginger, peeled and finely grated 1 tsp Nutmeg, freshly grated 1 tsp All Spice ground 1 Tbs Orange Zest 1/4 cup of freshly squeezed Orange Juice 1/4 cup pure Maple Syrup what you do: Combine all ingredients into the food processor with chopping blade and chop to form a moist fruit mince. to assemble tarts: Grease a tray or tart cases with olive oil Roll pastry out on the baking paper with a rolling pin, each half pastry batch should make twelve tarts.(making 24 tarts in total) Take a round pastry cutter or any circular object and a sharp knife, and cut twelve circles for tart bases. Fill each with a heaped teaspoon of fruit mince. With remaining pastry scraps, form back into a dough ball and roll out again, using a star cutter, cut twelve stars for top of tarts. Glaze the top of the pastry stars with a little water, with some sugar dissolved in it. Bake in a moderate oven 180 deg C for approx 20 minutes, until golden brown. If desired dust with a little icing sugar to finish. enjoy For a step by step how to do with photos http://janecookslive.blogspot.com/
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