Filling
Ingredients
25 g butter
100g dried cranberries
2 apples grated no need to peel
75 g soft brown sugar
Splash of orange essence
1 heaped tablespoon of Irish Black Butter
2 tablespoons of water
50 g of your favourite flavoured chocolate I added rum and raisin but fruit and nut or pistachio would work well
Method
Place all ingredients apart from the chocolate into a saucepan and cook over a medium heat until cranberries are plump
Chop chocolate and add to the mixture
Leave to cool
Pastry
Ingredients
170g plain flour
100g butter cold and cubed
Heaped tablespoon of castor sugar
1 egg
Method
1 sift flour into a large bowl, add the caster sugar and mix
2 add butter and rub together until it resembles a crumb
3 add egg mix well and bring together into a pastry
This should produce 6 good deep filled pies
Assembly
1 roll out pastry on a floured surface and cut out 12 discs
2 line six inserts of a bun tray with the pastry
3 fill each pastry lined insert with the cranberry mixture and top with the other pastry disc use a bit of water to deal the tops to the bottoms
4 with the remaining pastry garish the pies with little stars and they sprinkle with a little soft brown sugar
5 bake in a preheated oven 180 oC for about 15-20 minutes
6 leave to cool in the tray, when cool remove and enjoy
