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Mincemeat Pinwheels

December 11, 2013 by Sarah Trivuncic Leave a Comment

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Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Mincemeat pinwheels are a great alternative to mince pies using puff pastry. Whilst we’re preparing for Christmas, Ted’s been hanging out in the kitchen a fair bit. Being the geeky tech boy, he was incredible excited when Great British Chefs asked us to join them for a Christmas hangout cooking a recipe from their new Cooking With Kids Christmas app created in conjunction with Tesco Real Food.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

So we’re all set up and ready to go. Note iPad balanced at right height on toaster.

The recipe we were making was Galton Blackiston’s Christmas Pudding Ice Cream – Galton was leading the hangout.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Ted is strategically stood next to me on a chair where he can see and be seen and perform the important task of stirring the custard.

I should add at this point that our custard never made it as far as the ice cream churn. We enjoyed ours as chilled custard in dishes with caramel sauce.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Exploring the Great British Chefs Cooking With Kids Christmas app, Ted had his eye on making something else.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

“Can we make these mummy?”

They’re mincemeat puffs sprinkled with aniseed sugar. As with the other recipes on the app, they’re very quick and easy to make with children.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

So we got out some aniseed “flowers”. Ted had never seen these before and thought they were very pretty.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

And Ted pressed the button to blitz them in the food processor with the icing sugar.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Next he spread mincemeat all over the sheet of pre-rolled puff pastry – I evened it out a bit afterwards!!

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Roll the two ends of the pastry up to the centre then slice into 1cm slices.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

It looks like the stakes for mealtimes are being raised. Ted is requesting we have THIS for dinner. Yes – but not tonight I tell him.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Arrange them nicely on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

A quick sprinkling of that aniseed sugar.

Ted's Christmas hang out with Great British Chefs

Finally pop them them in the oven for around 12 minutes until golden brown.

Mini Mincemeat Puffs from the Great British Chefs & Tesco Kids Christmas Cooking app

We would definitely make these again – they’re much less stodgy than traditional pastry mince pies and just the right size for children (or for grown ups to eat three!).

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Filed Under: Classes and Events Tagged With: Christmas, cookery classes, puff pastry

About Sarah Trivuncic

Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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