Cheats Mince Pies

As soon as we hit 1st December the Small People decided that it was definitely the right time to put up the Christmas tree and get Christmas underway. So as they rifled through the boxes of decorations loading the tree up so that it was weighed down like a ...well like a Christmas tree, I went into super Mum mode and made Cheats mince pies.

     

 Store bought pastry, store bought filling, a quick bit of rolling out, 12 minutes in the oven (for the 12 days of Christmas?!) and hey presto a dozen mince pies. Spicy, Christmassy smells, Christmas carols trilling out over the stereo and Miss Small went to work with the icing sugar. They looked pretty presentable and they were scoffed down pretty fast too.

Who says you need to be too hair shirt about living the good life!