Luxury All Butter Mince Pies (Spar) by @Spectreuk

My christmas adventure into luxury mince pies continues with these Luxury All Butter Mince Pies from our local Spar. They have all butter pastry cases, and are filled with fruit mincemeat made from vine fruits, apple, brandy and port. Gosh, they sound rather nice indeed. They look good too, with their pastry star on top and fruit mincemeat surrounding, but how do they taste?

 

They certainly smelt nice, with their very fruity aroma. On taste they have lovely butter pastry, which is a little crunchy to start with, but then it melts in the mouth and is very smooth. Quite boozy on flavour, the brandy is most prominent, then the fruitiness from the mincemeat and a touch of apple, followed by port into the aftertaste. Sweet juicy boozy fruity flavours, these mince pies were fruity rather than punchy in citrus this time. I must say, I'm half the way through my second bottle of spiced rum, so far mince pie season is going very well indeed.

Information on the box; 6 mince pies with 210 calories per mince pie, with 6.7g of fat, 22.6g of sugar, 0.11g of salt. Vegetarian Friendly, please photograph for the ingredients.