Love mince pies? Why not make some yourself that won’t send your blood sugar levels soaring and crashing and leaving you craving more? The traditional mince pie is fairly sugar-laden but these are made with an almond flour crust and contain no added sugar in the filling.
Festive Mince Pies – Christmas with Sano
The almond flour provides protein leaving you more satisfied and slowing down the absorption of sugar into the bloodstream. The sweetness in the filling from the fruit is plenty without adding any more! Even better they’re great for those that can’t eat wheat or gluten and a lot better than shop-bought ones!
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Ingredients
Scale
Pastry
- 210g ground almonds
- 1 egg + some for glazing on top of pies
- 30g honey
- 30g melted butter
Filling
- 180g apples cubed
- 80g dried cranberries
- 80g raisins
- zest and juice of 1 large orange
- 200ml hot water
- 1tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Put all filling ingredients in a saucepan and simmer until the ingredients have broken down. Add additional water if necessary.
- Meanwhile, mix all pastry ingredients together, make into a dough ball, roll it out and cut it into rounds for the pie base and stars for the top. Make sure you roll the dough thin enough – if it is too thick it won’t cook through enough and you will have a soggy base!
- Place bases in greased muffin tins, add the filling and finish with the star top.
- Glaze the stars with beaten egg.
- Bake in the oven at 170℃ for 10 minutes until golden.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 20
