Name: WATCH: How to make your festive mince pies with a modern twist
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 1 fruit mincemeat; 250 g butter melted; 1 tsp cinnamon ground; 1/2 tsp nutmeg ground; 1 phyllo pastry; 1 brandy; 1/2 cup walnuts chopped

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Ingredients (7)

1	fruit mincemeat
250 g	butter — melted
1 tsp	cinnamon — ground
1/2 tsp	nutmeg — ground
1	phyllo pastry
1	brandy
1/2 cup	walnuts — chopped

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Method:

Pour the fruit mince into a bowl and add the cinnamon, nutmeg, walnuts and brandy. Stir and leave aside for 2 hours to soak up and infuse.

Preheat the oven to 200C.

Melt the butter until liquid but not too hot.

Lay out a sheet of phyllo pastry (make sure it is defrosted) and brush it all over with the melted butter. Continue the process until you have 3 sheets of phyllo on top of each other.

Cut the pastry into equal-sized rectangles and and spoon some of the fruit mince onto each.

Roll the pastry up around the fruit mince like a log and pinch the ends to make it look like a “cracker”. Tie the ends with some think string so keep this shape.

Brush some more butter over each “cracker” and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

Eat while still hot.

WATCH how to make them below…

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