Mini Mini. Twelve pies in one box! Where to start with these pies, they are small compact and completely normal. They provide a standard pie in a less than standard chalice.
I could only stomach a quarter of the pie. For the first second after putting it my mouth I was thinking of a rating of around 3 but then the cardboard pastry taste hit me, and stayed with me. I imagine if I squashed a brown cardboard box with water and some sugar the taste would be similar. The pies even look like they’ve been made of cardboard!
An excellent value for money pie, perfect for catering on mass whilst not breaking the bank. This is a tasty pie which has the perfect mincemeat to pastry ratio.
Surprisingly nice considering the lack of wheat, diary and gluten. I am impressed that the makers managed to gain any Christmas taste from what ingredients they had remaining.
This pie is terrific, although not deep filled, it is full of tasty filling. Due to the hand-made nature of the pie the appearance and consistency can suffer but this only matters if you are looking for a ‘perfect’ pie, I personally like the fact that these look home-made.
These pies look like they will be fantastic. But they are close to being very good but I think they could do with a touch more filling. The filling is very tasty and not over powered with the Cognac.
Poor but not inedible. The pie itself offered a good look with its pastry star but this was to provide the decoy from the shallow filling and watery filling. It never really got going on the taste front, the thick pastry unsettling the balance of flavour.
The packaging does say ‘a little less filling’, I find this slightly miss-leading, it should say ‘hardly any filling’. The filling resembled a spreading of Marmite with a few bumps where the 3 pieces of fruit popped up into the small space between layers of pastry. Cheap, yes, but I’d rather go hungry.
Pastry, pastry, pastry – have I lost my sense of taste today? Or are these another fine example of a tasteless pie? Tesco Deep Filled pies are only a little bit less tasteless but almost half the price. Nice tree detail on the case, but a bit anaemic compared with the photo on the packaging.
6 luxury, deep filled mince pies. All butter shortcrust pastry filled with deliciously fruity mincemeat with vine fruits, glacé cherries, brandy and portA fairly good pie. Its flavour came in waves, good, strange, nice, dry, porty. It didn’t offend me but it also refused to invite me in to taste town. Great look on the outside but another cavernous inside.