mincemeat recipe

With a hint of spice and little pockets of mincemeat, this is a lovely post-Christmas cake, great with warm custard

Pear & mincemeat crumble cake

pears

golden caster sugar

tsp mixed spice

pack salted butter

tsp vanilla extract

eggs

self-raising flour

ground almonds

tbsp plain flour

tbsp mincemeat

Put pears into a non-stick frying pan with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp water. Cover, then cook over a medium heat for 10 mins until just tender, stirring every so often. There shouldn’t be juices once the pears are cooked. Add the spice; leave to cool.

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter then line the base and sides of a 20cm round, deep cake tin. Put butter, sugar, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl. Beat with an electric hand whisk until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and flour, beat until smooth, then fold in almonds with a spoon. Remove 85g batter and put into a small bowl. Into this add the plain flour and chop into the mix with a cutlery knife to make a soft, crumbly-looking mix.

Spoon half the cake mix into the tin, top with half the pears, dot over half the mincemeat, then dollop the rest of the cake mix on top. Scatter with remaining pears, mincemeat, then the crumble mix. Sprinkle with final 1 tbsp sugar. Bake for 1½ hrs, covering with foil after 1 hr, until golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then cool on a rack. Keep it in the lining paper, as this will help it stay moist. Will keep, well wrapped in an airtight tin, for 5 days. Freeze for 1 month.

Christmas Shortbread made simple! Quick, no fuss, no cookie cutters required. Just perfectly short and crumbly, buttery, vegan shortbread bars with a layer of festive mincemeat sandwiched effortlessly through the middle.   

Christmas Shortbread

(312 grams) all-purpose flour (, plain flour in the UK)

⅓ cup (48 grams) cornstarch (, cornflour in the UK)

sugar

salt

(240 grams) vegan butter

(100 grams) vegan mincemeat

almonds

cranberries

Preheat oven to 320° F (160 °C) and place an oven shelf about ⅓ up from the bottom of the oven.

Grease a 9 x 5 inch (or similar) loaf pan. Place a long thin strip of parchment paper down the middle of the pan, with some overhang over the ends. Once that&#x27;s in place rub a little grease on it to &quot;stick&quot; the next strip. The second strip needs to be wider and go across the pan the other way with some overhang again. The overhang acts as handles for lifting the shortbread out and the grease helps to keep everything in place. To see exactly how to put the paper in see my picture in the post above.

To the bowl of a food processor, add the flour, cornstarch, sugar, salt and butter. Pulse until the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs and is just starting to clump. Test to see if it&#x27;s ready by grabbing a walnut sized piece and squeezing it together in your hand. If it sticks together in a ball it is ready. If it doesn&#x27;t put the lid on the food processor again and pulse until it is ready.

Take the blade out of the machine, and put roughly half (eyeballing it is fine) of the dough into the loaf pan. Using your hands, compact it down evenly and tightly.

Spread the mincemeat over the top of the shortbread layer with a spoon so it&#x27;s even, then top with the remaining shortbread and press it down really hard all over so it&#x27;s even and smooth.

Press the flaked almonds and cranberries into the top, then bake in the oven for about 65 minutes until it is just starting to turn a little golden around the edges.

Remove from the oven and leave in the pan for 15 to 20 minutes, then lift out using the parchment paper handles. Leave on the paper, and place on a cutting board.  Slice very carefully into portions, then lift it onto a cooling rack using the paper aagin,  and allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

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