Mince pies

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Sorry if this has already been covered. Complete novice baker here but want to make some mince pies.
I fancy doing some pretty ones with stars on top - and how long will they keep once cooked?

Does anyone have a easy recipe for how to make please, and what basic equipment I will need, and best place to buy it (very reasonably). Only equipment I have is a bowl and sharp knife!

I have, you make them and then freeze uncooked and then pop out of tins and put in a box altogether on freezer before doing the next lot. When you want to eat, you put the required number back in the tin and cook straight from frozen. It works really well and stops me eating them all in one night!

nannycook they are AMAZING!!!!!
Really, very, very good! Not sure how I'm not going to eat the lot to be honest! I made them in the food processor which made the mixture come together fairly easily (TBH I a bit rubbish when it come to shortcake style mixtures) and then I put the dough in the fridge for half an hour and then rolled them out and they worked a treat! I have only cooked half and am going to freeze the other half uncooked and then bake them at a later date! Not sure if this will work but I thought I would give it an experiment, but anyway THANK YOU VERY MUCH for planting so kind as to post the recipe! xxx

Planting????? BEING!!! Silly phone!

I did struggle getting them out of the tin a bit, my pastry seemed a bit fragile...just wondering if the mixture needed to be a bit wetter? My egg wasn't a large one...maybe my yolk wasn't big enough? Should I have greased the tin maybe?

Lola soooo glad they turned out so good for you. They are fab arent they?guess yiu could aleays put put some more egg in to make it wetter. I have non stick tins but naybe grease but shouldnt have to. Now be good and dont eat them all will you?

Ok so I have eaten 3 today! It's a good job some have gone in the freezer....
DP has just given them the seal of approval!

Nannycook might be able to tell you...3 days I'd guess????

Back2two, have to be honest they're never around long enough to find out, but i would think a good few days really.

Lola, just made 30 if these,Dh said they were different this time,alot shorter, however i did made them in my mixer and the mix was alot softer, and i put 2 egg yolks in so abit wetter. Still love them and i've only had 1 , night isnt ovet yet though, ha ha

Lol, nannycook, about "the night isn't over!!"
I forgot to mention, I used real butter in mine (all I had in the fridge) maybe this was why mine were a bit fragile?

DS2 (3) and I made mince pies with ready rolled pastry and robertson's jarred mincemeat. He loved pressing the pastry into the holes in the tin, filling them with mincemeat and putting stars on top. They don't look that brilliant (as I let him do it himself) but they taste great and he's very proud of himself.

Lola maybe your right, mine were alot shorter this time as couldnt even roll the pastry out whereas last time i could manage it albeit gently. Mind the pastry is so nice, wait for it, i actually eat the raw pastry, thats one very desperate cook dont you think?

I made mince pies with 3yo DD yesterday (made mincemeat a couple of days ago following Delia's recipe). For the pastry I followed this recipe, and added an egg yolk to the mixture. It was handled to death by DD and still came out beautifully.

Making Paul Hollywood's recipe here . How long does the pastry keep for ? We have some leftover form Wednesday's batch that has been in the fridge, would it be any good still ?