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Best Mincemeat Cookies

These best mincemeat cookies are a soft cookie, rich with warming spices and nothing beats the aroma of these spicy cookies baking in the oven.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Chill Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 25 biscuits
Calories: 111kcal
Author: Lesley Garden

Equipment

  • Baking sheet
  • Baking parchment or silicone liner
  • mixing bowl
  • measuring spoons
  • Wooden spoon
  • weighing scales
  • Electric hand whisk

Ingredients

  • 125 g unsalted butter (softened)
  • 80 g dark muscovado sugar
  • 80 g light muscovado sugar
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 225 g plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoon mincemeat

Instructions

  • Place the butter and both sugars into a bowl and beat well until you get a creamy mixture.
  • Once you have beaten the butter and sugars together, beat in the vanilla extract and the egg, mixing well to combine.
  • Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger and cinnamon, and salt to the bowl and continue to mix well until you have a rough dough.
  • Now add the mincemeat to the dough and mix until you have a well combined dough. Cover the bowl and place into the refrigerator to chill the dough for 1 hour to firm up.
  • When ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 190C/170CFan/375F, and line a baking sheet with baking parchment, or use a silicone liner.
  • Remove the cookie dough from the fridge and pull together small golf ball sized balls of the cookie dough and place these on the baking sheet. Work quickly to stop the dough from becoming too warm. Space the cookies well apart as they will spread in the oven. Do not flatten out the balls of dough.
  • Once you have shaped all the cookies, you should get 25-30 cookies from this mix, place the trays into the hot oven. Bake the cookies for 12 minutes, they should be a little soft in the middle.
  • Remove the cookies from the oven, place the tray on a wire cooling rack and allow to cool for 10 minutes and set a little. After 10 minutes gently place the cookies directly onto the wire rack to completely set and cool.
  • Once cool store in an airtight container. These cookies are soft cookies and best consumed within 2-3 days. However, they will still taste great after that, they just soften more the longer the sit.

Notes

    1. Use vegetarian mincemeat with vegetable suet if serving to vegetarian diners.
    2. This dough freezes really well, so once chilled you can split the dough in half. Take half of the dough, roll it up, then cover with clingfilm and place in an airtight bag and store in the freezer for up to 3 months. When ready to bake, defrost overnight in the refrigerator and then roll into balls and bake as normal.
    3. You could also roll the dough into balls before freezing. Then place them on a baking sheet and place in the freezer to set for 1 hour. Remove from the freezer then place the balls of cookie dough into an airtight container. Again, defrost overnight in the fridge before baking.
    4. Line the baking tray with a silicone baking sheet or baking parchment as this will stop the cookies sticking to the tray.
    5. The cookies will spread in the oven, so leave plenty space between each ball of cookie dough.
    6. If you want your cookies to look a uniform size, or if some have really spread in the oven, I have a simple trick to fixing this. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven they will still be soft and pliable. Get a circular cookie cutter and place smooth side down over the cookie, taking care not to touch the sides of the cookie. Now working in a circular motion, move the cutter and gently reshape the cookies.
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Nutrition Facts
Best Mincemeat Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 111 Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Fat 4g6%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Trans Fat 0.2g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 17mg6%
Sodium 78mg3%
Potassium 23mg1%
Carbohydrates 17g6%
Fiber 0.4g2%
Sugar 10g11%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 135IU3%
Vitamin C 0.002mg0%
Calcium 9mg1%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

• Please note that the nutrition information provided above is approximate and meant as a guideline only •

Course : Baking
Cuisine : American, British
Keyword : Christmas, cookies, mincemeat
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