MINCE pies, you either love ’em or hate ’em. But this year supermarkets are trying to get the haters on side with wacky added flavours from chocolate and cherry to sloe gin.
JESS LESTER tries a selection and rates them out of five.
Sweet Morello Cherry Sharing Mince Pie — 3/5
This huge pie has a real punch of succulent cherries before even taking a bite — it’s crumbly and well-balanced.
- Sweet Morello Cherry Sharing Mince Pie, Aldi Specially Selected, £3.99 — buy now
Cottage Delight Tipsy Gin Mince Pies — 5/5
Inside a beautiful, glittery pastry case, the pie definitely has a hint of a classic botanical gin cocktail, well hidden among traditional spiced flavours and tangy currants and berries.
- Cottage Delight Tipsy Gin Mince Pies, John Lewis, £4.75 — buy now
Assorted Miniatures Mince Pies — 2/5
The almond overpowers the mincemeat, the orange is almost a little too subtle and they’re small you could gobble up the whole box, especially with two tantalising alternative flavours to pick from.
- Assorted Miniatures Mince Pies, Selfridges, £7.99 — buy now
Frangipane Mince Pies — 1/5
Are these Bakewell tarts or mince pies? They taste the same to me – which is not necessarily a bad thing if you like almond and jam, but if you’re a Christmas traditionalist, it doesn’t quite meet the mark.
- Frangipane Mince Pies, M&S, £2.70 — buy now
Salted Caramel Mince Pies — 3/5
It smells like a shortbread biscuit and the pastry is a little thick, but once you finally get into the centre it has a sweet and simultaneously salted caramel taste — it’s definitely there, but it’s subtle.
- Salted Caramel Mince Pies, Aldi Specially Selected, £1.99 — buy now
Chocolate Orange Mince Pies — 2/5
Chocolate orange is a classic flavour, what could go wrong? There’s lots of chocolate orange there but the mincemeat is a little redundant so for those who aren’t the biggest fans of currants, it’s probably a winner.
- Chocolate Orange Mince Pies, Lidl Deluxe, £2.49 — buy now
All Butter Frangipane Mince Pies — 0/5
More of a cake, as when you bite into it you get frangipane and no mincemeat, so something to buy if you wanted to pretend you liked mince pies — tasty, but I’m surprised it can be called a mince pie.
- All Butter Frangipane Mince Pies, Lidl Deluxe, £2.49 — buy now
Almond Topped Mince Pies — 4/5
Packed with novelty and clearly based on the traditional recipe. Well-blended currants fill the majority and the rest is topped with an almond paste and pastry — soft, delicate and, without a doubt, classy.
- Almond Topped Mince Pies, Fortnum & Mason, £12.95 — buy now
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Heston’s Chocolate & Sour Cherry Crumble Mince Pies — 4/5
The packet gives off a cherry booze and chocolate aroma instantly but it will blow your socks off, so if you don’t like tangy flavours or strong alcohol in food, this pie is best avoided.
- Heston’s Chocolate & Sour Cherry Crumble Mince Pies, Waitrose, £3.00 — buy now
Salted Caramel Mince Pies — 1/5
For the price of these you’d want them to be plated in gold. The currants are thick and full. As for salted caramel, there isn’t a huge amount and it’s definitely not the dominant factor in this pie which disappointingly does not live up to its name.
- Salted Caramel Mince Pies, Harrods Foodhall, £8.50 — buy now
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You don’t have to pack away your bikini just because you’re the wrong side of 20. These body-beautiful stars reveal their secrets to staying in shape and prove you can smoulder in a two-piece, whatever your age. Read on and be bikini inspired!
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Hayden Panettiere
Size: 8
Age: 18
Height: 5ft 1in
Weight: 8st
To achieve her kick-ass figure, Hayden – who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes – follows the ‘quartering’ rule. She eats only a quarter of the food on her plate, then waits 20 minutes before deciding whether she needs to eat again.
Hayden says: “I don’t have a model’s body, but I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m OK with what I have.”
Nicollette says: “I don’t like diets – I see it, I eat it! I believe in eating healthily with lots of protein, vegetables and carbs to give you energy.”
kim cattrall
Size: 10-12
Age: 52
Height: 5ft 8in
Weight: 9st 4lb
SATC star Kim swears by gym sessions with Russian kettle bells (traditional cast-iron weights) and the South Beach Diet to give her the body she wants. To avoid overeating, Kim has a radical diet trick – squirting lemon juice on her leftovers – so she won’t carry on picking.
Kim says: “I am no super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.”
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