Mincemeat Tart
This is such a nice, light Christmas dessert if you don't fancy Christmas pudding. I look forward to making this every year and it's a lovely change from mince pies. I've included a pastry recipe but you could use readymade shortcrust pastry.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
- Pastry
- 200g plain flour
- 100g cold butter, cubed
- 60g golden caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 dessertspoons of cold water, or as needed
- 100g homemade or shop bought mincemeat
- Almond Filling
- 150g soft butter
- 150g golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 140g ground almonds
- Glaze
- 100g icing sugar
- 2 or 3 tablespoons orange juice
- flaked almonds, for scattering on top
Directions
Preparation:25min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hour10min
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Lightly butter a loose-bottom 22cm fluted pastry tin.
- Pastry: Place the flour and cubes of cold butter in the bowl of a food processor and mix for 10 to 15 seconds (or rub the flour and butter together with your fingertips until it looks like breadcrumbs).
- Add the sugar, beaten egg and 1 dessertspoon of water. Blend together, adding more water if necessary until it forms a dough. Roll out on a floured surface and line a loose-bottom 22cm fluted pastry tin. Prick the pastry base with a fork, then place in fridge while you make the filling.
- Almond Filling: Cream the softened butter and sugar together until fluffy. Gradually add the beaten eggs and ground almonds.
- Spoon the mincemeat over the base of the pastry shell. Top with an even layer of the almond mixture. Bake for 35 minutes, or until golden brown in colour and slightly firm on top.
- Glaze: Mix the icing sugar and orange juice together until well blended. Pour over the top of the tart and let it soak in. Scatter the almonds evenly over the top and place back in the oven for 10 minutes to toast the almonds.
- Allow to cool a little before removing it from the fluted tin. Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
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A gorgeous tart and lovely way to use mincemeat. Everyone raved about it. I used shopbought pastry but otherwise didn't change a thing. Thanks very much for the recipe - 04 Dec 2012 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)
Was so disappointed with this. I made it exactly as described, but the filling , although browned and also left in for an extra 10 minutes, was soggy and undercooked. My oven is usually pretty good with temperature, so I don't know what went wrong. No time left now to get out for the extra ingredients, so will have to try again after Christmas. Flavours were excellent in spite of the texture. - 23 Dec 2012 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)
this is a regular due to its popularity. basically a bakewell tart made with mincemeat, I used a whole jar of mincemeat, and it is definitely one of my family's favourite sweet recipes. - 11 Mar 2015 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)