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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal568
  • fat23g
  • saturates10g
  • carbs82g
  • sugars56g
  • fibre2g
  • protein8g
  • salt0.8g
    low

Method

  • step 1

    Mix the dried fruit, grated apple or pear, Demerara sugar, marzipan, cloves and cinnamon.

  • step 2

    Divide the pastry into 6. Then assemble tarts one by one. Halve a chunk of pastry and roll out each halve to a circle about the thickness of a 50p piece on a floured surface. Spoon a sixth of the filling into the centre of one circle in a pile. Brush edges with egg, and lift the second pastry circle on top. Gently press down on the fruit to push out as much air as you can. Press the pastry edges to seal. Use an appropriate sized bowl, glass etc to help you trim the edges to a neat circle. At this stage, you can cover and chill the tarts overnight, or freeze for 1 month. Defrost before continuing. Brush with beaten egg, then make three small slashes with a knife in a row. Repeat with remaining pastry and filling.

  • step 3

    Pop the tarts in the fridge while you heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. When the oven is nice and hot, brush tarts all over with egg and sprinkle each with a little more sugar. Bake for 20 - 25 mins, until golden, then eat warm with ice cream or custard.

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A star rating of 4.8 out of 5.5 ratings

Frantic Flapjack

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

These turned out really well. I had just over half a jar of mincemeat left over from Christmas and used this instead of the dried fruit and sugar, then stirred one grated apple into it and also the marzipan. Would make these again.

benwe_n

I have become a bit of a pain where I try to, whenever possible, use all left over ingredients. Have just put the Marzipan on the Christmas cakes, I has some spare and started looking for ways to use the leftover's up. Always great for menu's i checked the BBC Good Food site and came across this…

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ruthwilliamson

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Made this with homemade mincemeat left over from Christmas and grated in spare marzipan. Really lovely Eccles cakes with fantastically crispy topping (don't skip the double egg and chilling step). Looked professional too!

honeybunee82

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Lovely! The little bits of marzipan are not too sickly sweet. I could eat several in one go!

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