Fruit Mince Pies Rrcipe

4.67 from 6 votes

These easy Fruit Mince Pies are great to enjoy in the lead up to Christmas and they also make a perfect homemade Christmas gift!

Prep Time30

Cook Time18

Soaking Time for the Fruit12

Total Time48

Course: Christmas, Desserts

Cuisine: Australian

Keyword: Christmas, Thermomix

Servings: Tarts

Calories: 77kcal

Place the dried mixed fruit, chopped almonds and sherry into large bowl that has a lid. Stir to combine and then leave to soak for a minimum of 12 hours - preferably overnight though.
Sift the plain flour, self raising flour, cornflour, custard powder and icing sugar into a large bowl and rub in the butter.
Slowly add the water a little at a time until the mixture just comes together.
Add a little flour to your bench and gently knead the dough until it's smooth.
Divide into four and wrap in cling wrap before placing into the fridge to chill for 20 minutes
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius (fan-forced) and lightly grease 2 x 12 hole rounded bottom patty cake tins before and removing one of the pastry portions from the fridge.
Roll the pastry between two sheets of baking paper until it measures approximately 2mm thick.
Use a 7cm round cutter to cut the pastry and gently place it into the prepared tin. Fill the pastry with a tablespoon of the soaked dried fruit mixture and top with a little star made from your pastry offcuts. Repeat until you have used all of the pastry and fruit mixture.
Place the trays into the oven and bake for 15 - 18 minutes or until the pastry begins to turn golden. Carefully remove from the oven and let the Fruit Mince Tarts cool in their tins for 5 minutes before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

You can omit the almonds from this recipe if your prefer.Depending on the number of tins you have, you may need to bake these Fruit Mince Pies in a couple of batches.

I use the same soaked fruit mixture as what's in my easy Christmas Cake recipe and you can in fact make one small Christmas Fruit Cake (approximately 15 x 15cm) and a small batch of these Fruit Mince Pies from the one batch of soaked fruit if you like.
If you have leftover pastry, you can simply wrap it in some cling wrap (or pop in an airtight container) and store it in the fridge until needed.
This pastry is a little delicate to work with (especially when you are making these on a warmer day) so where possible, try not to over work it and if you find that it is beginning to 'melt' just pop it back into the fridge to firm up a little.
These Fruit Pies are best stored in an airtight container in a cool dry place and enjoyed within two weeks.