Tots can play baker with this Felt Mince Pie Trio. Little chefs will adore playing the role of Christmas host with this plate of mouth-watering pies – and it comes with none of the stress of burnt pastry and missing ingredients! This trio from Carolyn Letten features three unique felt toppers, including lattice pastry and spooned-on icing, as well as dainty holly leaves and a realistic mincemeat filling – we guarantee that tummies will be grumbling for the real thing once playtime is over.
Download and print the templates. Trim three pastry bodies from cream felt, and three 5cm diameter circles from cream felt for the bases. To make up each pastry case, take one end of the inner curve of the felt body and machine or hand stitch it to the outer edge of the circle base by placing the edges together, then sewing all the way around. Allow the ends to overlap by 5mm, sew up the seam and cut any excess off. Leave the wrong side out. Fold the whole piece in half and at both ends, sew a straight seam from the bottom edge of the body that starts at 1mm and ends at the top edge at 4mm; do not sew into the circle base.
Unfold the piece, then re-fold in half, bringing together the two seams you have just stitched together. Sew the two end seams from 1-4mm. Repeat until you have stitched 20 seams. Turn each pastry case right side out. For the lidded pie, cut a 9cm diameter circle from cream felt and snip two V shapes in the top. Take a small piece of brown felt and use acid-free glue to stick it underneath the V shape holes. Sit the lid on top of one of th