Mary Berry and Dina Asher-Smith served up a delicious sweet mincemeat tart with a rich marzipan topped with cream for the festive season on Mary Berry’s Christmas Party.

The ingredients for the pastry are: 175g plain flour, 100g unsalted butter, cubed, 25g icing sugar and 1 free-range egg, beaten, for brushing.

For the filling: 550g good-quality mincemeat and 150g marzipan, coarsely grated.

To finish: icing sugar, for dusting and brandy cream, to serve.

See Mary’s Christmas recipes in her book titled: Mary Berry’s Christmas Collection available from Amazon now.