Advent Calendar - Day 8 - Mincemeat Christmas Crackers

Photo © Anne-Marie Minhall

I'm looking to take some seasonal treats into the workplace.

I road tested my first batch on a friend.

Chums are the best to trial recipes.

Easy to do & not time-consuming.

No hats, no mottos.

For 6 to 7 rolls.

Oven 200C/190C/Gas 6

150g Mincemeat (a top notch one)

220g Filo Pastry Sheets (from the chiller cabinet in the supermarket)

Water

Icing Sugar to dust

Lightly flour a board & place sheet number one of the filo sheets onto it

Here comes the mincemeat

A cigar-shaped roll of it but leave a couple of centimetres from all of the edges of the pastry

Brush the sides with water & then roll away from you

Keep brushing the water on so to avoid the tissue thin filo from drying too quickly

More dabs of water & press to seal your fruity cracker, middle & both ends

Place the parcels onto a greaseproof paper-lined baking sheet

Repeat the process until all your pastry & mincemeat has been used up

Into the oven for 15 minutes

A little dusting of icing sugar once the crispy beauties are out

Eat warm

Robert **loves** my jokes so here's one of my favourite cracker puns.

Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

A: A stick.

AMM