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Stollen makes a great eatable gift during Christmas time. This delicious baked treat needs a bit of time to develop it's flavor so it can be made days or even weeks ahead of time! Stollen is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar. It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ).
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stollen: a great christmas gift using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stollen: A Great Christmas Gift:
- Make ready Sponge dough
- Get 100 grams Strong flour
- Prepare 9 grams Dried yeast
- Get 100 grams Milk
- Make ready Main dough
- Take 200 grams Strong flour
- Take 55 grams Sugar
- Prepare 5 grams Salt
- Take 15 grams Egg yolk
- Make ready 20 grams Milk
- Get 90 grams Unsalted butter
- Prepare ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
- Prepare 25 grams Dried figs
- Get 120 grams Raisins
- Get 50 ml Rum
- Prepare 50 grams Candied orange peel
- Make ready 40 grams Candied lemon peel
- Take 30 grams Walnuts
- Get 10 grams Sliced almonds
- Make ready 1 Unsalted butter (melted)
- Prepare 1 Granulated sugar
- Take 1 Powdered sugar
This easy German Christmas Stollen recipe uses cottage cheese or Greek yogurt to keep it moist. · This German Christmastime specialty is a great addition to your dessert table and will surely show your guests how tasty fruitcakes can be. Christmas Stollen: traditional German bread served at breakfast, tea time or any time of day! Stollen is a yeast bread, it is not a cake. In fact, because of it's similarity to bread and the lack of sweetness typical of Christmas baking, stollen was my least favorite Christmas treat.
Instructions to make Stollen: A Great Christmas Gift:
- Cut the dried figs into quarters and soak in rum with the raisins for more than 1 month.
- Make the sponge dough. Combine the ingredients for the sponge dough in a bowl and knead together well with a spatula. When they are well mixed, cover with cling film and leave to rise for about 1 hour.
- Prepare the dried fruits. I used the candied orange peel and lemon peel in this photo. These were already soaked in liqueur, so I used them as they were. Roughly chop the walnuts.
- This is what the sponge dough looks like when it is rising.
- Make the main dough. Put the softened butter in a bowl and beat with a whisk. Add sugar in 2 batches, add salt and mix really well.
- Add egg yolks and milk and mix. Add the strong flour and mix lightly with a spatula. Add the sponge dough, tearing it into little pieces, and mix.
- Add the dried fruits and nuts to the dough from Step 6. Mix until they blend into the dough.
- When they are evenly incorporated, shape the dough into a ball. Then divide in half.
- Roll the dough out on a floured board. Pick out the raisins that are sticking out from the surface. (Raisins on the surface burn when baking.)
- Flip over onto the side you picked out the raisins and fold over both edges. Then pick up one unfolded end and fold on top of the other end to shape it into a stollen. Before you fold to shape, put the raisins you picked out earlier inside.
- Transfer to a baking tray and leave to rise for about 40 minutes. Bake in an oven preheated to 350°F/180℃ for about 45 minutes. It burns easily, so cover with aluminum foil before this happens.
- When it's baked, brush plenty of melted butter on the surface and sprinkle granulated sugar.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar using a tea strainer to finish. Wrap tightly with cling film.
Stollen is a yeast bread, it is not a cake. In fact, because of it's similarity to bread and the lack of sweetness typical of Christmas baking, stollen was my least favorite Christmas treat. Christmas just isn't Christmas without German Stollen bread! I used to drive across town to our German bakery to buy a loaf of the If you'd prefer to order a loaf, you can get an original Dresden Stollen here (in a box or gift tin). I hope you enjoy this Christmas Stollen recipe as much as I do!
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