Mince Pies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, add flour and butter and mix together to a crumb consistency.
Add sugar and 1 beaten egg and mix together.
Fold and knead the pastry dough until it comes together in the mixing bowl. Form it into a round somewhat flattened ball. Be careful not to over mix.
Wrap the pastry dough in saran wrap and chill for at least 10 minutes.
While the pastry dough is chilling, in a bowl, add all the filling ingredients together. Set aside.
Remove pastry dough from refrigerator. Lightly flour surface area and using a rolling pin, roll out dough until it’s 1/8 inch thick. Make sure to roll rolling pin in one direction. Never roll the pin back and forth on the dough as it will pull the dough apart.
You will need to re-roll the dough to get enough cut outs.
Butter muffin pan.
Using a round 2 1/2 -inch cookie cutter, cut out 48 pieces. Place 24 cutouts as a base in a mini muffin pan.
Add 1 tsp filling to each hole, then brush the edge of each pie with the beaten egg. Seal pie with the remaining cutouts.
Make a small cut in the tops.
Place muffin tray in oven and bake for 25 minutes, or until pies are golden brown. Check in the 15-20 minutes mark as every oven temperature is different.
Remove from oven and let it cool for 10 minutes.
Dust powder sugar on top then serve!