Mince Pie Cookies!

Scrumptious chocolate chip cookies filled with mincemeat to make delicious mince pie cookies! 

Ooooh sure, that’s proper, listed here are my MINCE PIE COOKIES!! I do know, I do know, they give the impression of being and sound epic. I couldn’t recover from how many individuals have been asking for these beauties, so right here you go!

They’re really easy, a scrumptious twist on a traditional few bakes, and mix my favorite issues so what’s to not love about them!?

Festive Baking

Can we take a minute to understand it’s a brand new Christmas recipe for this 12 months, lastly, and I AM SO EXCITED. I like Christmas baking, as you all know by now, and these mince pie cookies are simply subsequent stage. 

I’ve accomplished so many scrumptious Christmas themed cookies already resembling my gingerbread NYC cookies, my Christmas pudding cookies, and naturally the traditional gingerbread however these beauties are simply oh HELLO.

I’m a agency believer in making festive baking as enjoyable as doable, and these are simply enjoyable and somewhat totally different and to date have proved so common with all mince pie lovers on the market. 

Mincemeat

I’ve a number of mincemeat associated bakes in my world now, together with my mince pie crumble bars which I LOVE, in addition to my do-it-yourself mince pies. The mince pies themselves are simpler to make than you assume, and the crumble bars are one other enjoyable twist on a bake. 

Every time I make my mincemeat, I exploit the recipe on the recipes above, because it’s simply really easy. I are inclined to make up a batch anyway as a result of I do know I’ll inevitably be baking them anyway, so nabbing somewhat of that for these cookies is price it. 

You may as well use store purchased mincemeat, there’s NOTHING improper with that. You don’t want a lot for these cookies, so I don’t blame you. 

All you should do is scoop a heaped spoonful onto a lined tray, and freeze for so long as doable. It could not freeze fully stable, however you need it to have thickened and be simpler to push cookie dough across the mincemeat to make it much less of a sticky mess. 

Cookie Dough

So the cookie dough for these cookies is similar as all of the others… and might you actually blame me?! It’s the very best cookie dough on the market and it really works to wrap round a filling

• Butter – Whether or not its baking unfold, butter, or a margarine – all of them work for these cookies. I exploit fridge chilly baking unfold, or room temp block butter. 
• Sugar – I used simply gentle brown smooth sugar to assist the flavour – however you should use a mixture or white granulated and lightweight brown sugar. 
• Egg – I have a tendency to make use of medium eggs in my bakes, however you should use one giant egg as a substitute of. 
• Vanilla – Optionally available, however provides a scrumptious flavour. 
• Flour – At all times use plain flour in your cookies!! 
• Elevating brokers – For these, I exploit bicarbonate of soda and baking powder. 
• Salt – I at all times add sea salt to my cookies as a result of it’s scrumptious, however you’ll be able to positively depart it out, or use salted butter

Baking

After getting made the cookie dough for these, it’s a bit messy, however completely price it. I make the cookie dough and break up them into 10 cookies (it’s about 90g per cookie). 

You wish to flatten the cookie dough portion within the palm of your hand, add the mincemeat to the center, and attempt to wrap the cookie dough across the mincemeat and seal it in with none poking out.

I’ve tried this with solely freezing the mincemeat for an hour, and I did want to make use of a spoon to place the mincemeat onto the cookie dough, but it surely nonetheless labored, simply just be sure you have made the cookie dough portion sufficiently big so there’s sufficient cookie combination to only press over the mincemeat and seal. 

I bake these at 180ºc in my fan oven, and it labored wonders. 11 minutes on the dot and I had a scrumptious cookie, which had unfold barely to the right form, with no leakages! 

Ideas & Methods 

Cookies

• 125 g unsalted butter/baking unfold
• 100 g gentle brown sugar
• 75 g granulated sugar
• 1 medium egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 300 g plain flour
• 1 + 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 300 g chocolate chips
• 10 heaped spoonfuls mincemeat

• Spoon 10 heaped spoonfuls of mincemeat onto a lined tray and freeze for at least an hour – 4+ hours is greatest.

• Preheat the oven to 180ºc fan, or 200ºc common

• Add the butter and sugars to a bowl and beat till creamy

• Add within the egg and vanilla and beat once more.

• Add within the plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, and salt and beat till a cookie dough is fashioned!

• Add within the chocolate chips and beat till distributed effectively

• Weigh your cookies out into ten cookie dough balls – they’re about 90-100g every

• Flatten every portion of cookie dough in your hand, add the mincemeat to the center and wrap the cookie dough round tightly.

• The longer the mincemeat has frozen, the better that is. Make certain the cookie dough is kind of flat so you’ve gotten sufficient to wrap across the mincemeat with out inflicting a multitude.

• Break up the cookies between two giant trays. Bake the cookies within the oven for 11-13 minutes.

• Let the cookies cool on the trays for at the least half-hour, as they may proceed to bake while cooling!

ENJOY!

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