Goat Butter Mince Pies with Goats Cheese Pastry
There are many recipes for mice pies, and i have at least two of them on this website, but if you’re looking for a mince pie with a bit of a twist , putting cheese into the pastry is a unique way of making them. If the cheese is goat, then this adds even more zing to a traditional festive treat.
Adding St Helens Farm Mature Cheese to the pastry, along with the goat butter, gives a hint of savoury to this well-known festive food, making it into something that you’ll be a craving all year round.
So good, I’d be surprised if there are any left for Santa!
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Go on, give it a go and enjoy your sweet life!
Cheesy pastry covering orange enhanced sweet mince.
What You Need
Pastry
150g Plain Flour – More for rolling out
75g St Helens Farm Butter – Cold and cut into small cubes
40g St Helens Farm Mature Cheese - Grated
1 Tbsp Castor Sugar
1 Large Egg – Lightly beaten
Pinch of salt
12-16 Small tin foil pastry cases
Pimp up the sweet mincemeat by adding orange zest
Filling
400g Jar Mincemeat
1 Egg – Lightly Beaten
Zest of 1 Large Orange – See Tip Box
Icing Sugar to Serve
Line with thin pastry
How It’s Done
Pastry
Place the flour, salt and castor sugar in to a food processor and pulse a few times to combine all the ingredients – If making the pastry by hand – See Tip Box
While the machine is still running, add the grated cheese and then the pieces of cold butter.
The mixture should look like pale fine breadcrumbs.
Keeping the machine running, drizzle the beaten egg into the dry pastry crumbs and keep it running until it comes together to form a soft ball
Wrap the dough in cling film and rest it in the fridge for 10 minutes.
Heat the oven to 180c
While the oven is heating, add the grated orange rind to the mincemeat and give it a mix.
Divide the pastry into two.
Once the pastry has rested, dust the worksurface with a little flour.
Roll one piece of the pastry out and using a round cutter, cut out circles to fit into the bottom of small tinfoil pastry cases.
Place a teaspoon of the orange mincemeat into each of the cases.
Dust the worksurface with a little more flour, and roll out the second piece of pastry.
Cut out circles of the pastry and place on the top of the mincemeat.
Use finger tips to press the lid onto the bottom layer of pastry.
Place all of the mice tarts onto an oven tray that has been covered with non-stick baking parchment or a silicone mat.
Brush each of the pastry lids with the beaten egg and place the tray into the hot oven.
Bake for 20 minutes until the pastry tops are a pale golden.
Leave to cool before dusting with icing sugar to serve.
Tip Box
Pastry – If making pastry by hand, use blunt butter knifes, to cut the butter and grated cheese into the flour, or finger tips to rub the butter into the flour.
Orange Zest – Adding orange zest to the mincemeat not only pimps up the filling and counteracts the sweetness of it too.
