Sugar and spice and all things nice - that's what these pillows of fruit-mince-filled biscuit pastry are made of.
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Spicy fruit mince pillows
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- 50 mins cooking
- Makes 40 Item
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Ingredients
Spicy fruit mince pillows
- 90 gram butter, softened
- 1/3 cup (55g) icing (confectioners') sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 cup (185g) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 1/4 cup (35g) self-raising flour
- 2 tablespoon milk
- 2 teaspoon caster (superfine) sugar
Spicy fruit filling
- 2 2/3 cup (375g) seeded dried dates, chopped coarsely
- 3/4 cup (180ml) water
- 2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- pinch baking soda
Method
Spicy fruit mince pillows
- 1Beat butter and sifted icing sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Beat in egg until combined. Stir in sifted flours, in two batches. Cover dough; refrigerate 30 minutes.
- 2Meanwhile, make spicy fruit filling; cook dates and the water in medium saucepan, stirring, about 10 minutes or until thick and smooth. Stir in spices and soda. Cool.
- 3Preheat oven to 180°C. Line oven trays with baking paper.
- 4Roll dough between sheets of baking paper to 30cm x 40cm rectangle; cut into four 7.5cm x 40cm strips. Spoon filling into piping bag fitted with large 1.5cm plain tube; pipe filling down centre of each strip. Fold edges in until they meet to enclose filling; turn seamside down onto board. Cut each roll into 10 pillow shapes; place pillows, seam-side down, on trays. Brush pillows with milk, sprinkle with caster sugar.
- 5Bake pillows about 20 minutes; cool on trays.
