Easy Mincemeat Dessert
Servings: 4 -6 portions
Ingredients
- 200 g Pre-made sweet pastry
- plain flour to dust
- 25 g raisins
- 25 g orange peel finely chopped
- 30 g dried prunes finely chopped
- 30 g dried apricots finely chopped
- 30 g almond flakes toasted
- 40 g brown sugar
- 80 ml good quality dark rum
- 1 apple chopped or grated
- 1/2 lemon juice only
- 1 star cookie cutter medium size
- <em>Zabaglione Sauce</em>
- 4 egg yolks
- 80 g caster sugar (superfine baking sugar)
- 50 ml Marsala wine
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
- Roll the pastry until roughly 3mm thick and then cut out your stars using the cutter. Place in the oven on a pre-heated tray lined with baking paper, for 8 minutes, or until golden.
- Meanwhile, mix the remaining ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and then allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
- <em>For the sauce</em> Whisk the egg yolks, caster sugar and wine in a bowl and cook over a bain-marie until it thickens to a custard-like consistency.
- Now place a spoonful of dried fruit mix in the centre of a large plate and then top with a pastry star. Repeat so your dish is 4 stars tall, or higher if you dare! Spoon custard around the mince pie and serve. Buon Appetito!
