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Christmas Stollen, or Christstollen, is full of nuts, raisins, and candied fruit, and creates a delicious holiday treat. Like other Christmas fruit bread recipes, stollen is best when made weeks in advance. Storing the baked loaf for two to three weeks mellows and softens the flavor perfectly.
Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christstollen/german christmas fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
- Make ready 500 gr all purpose flour
- Get 1 egg
- Prepare 150 gr butter
- Make ready 100 g sugar
- Make ready 150 ml milk
- Make ready 7 gr / 1 pack dry yeast
- Prepare 120 gr raisin (soaked in rum)
- Get 50 gr zitronat / dried lemon
- Prepare 50 gr orangeat / dried orange
- Take 100 gr chopped almond
- Take 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Take 1/4 tsp clove powder
- Take 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
- Make ready Garnish:
- Take 50 gr melted butter
- Get Powder sugar
Stollen is the traditional German Christmas bread like cake packed with mixed candied fruits, almonds, and spices. German Christmas Stollen or Weihnachtsstollen is generously sprinkled with powdered sugar and represents baby Jesus wrapped up in a blanket. Stollen is literally packed with dried fruits, candied fruits, nuts and marzipan. It doesn't require any special cake pan and is easier to make than you think.
Steps to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
- Warm the milk for 1 minute and add 1 tsp sugar. Add the dry yeast into the warm milk to activate it. Keep it aside.
- In a bowl, add flour, butter, egg, sugar. Mix it with low speed kitchen machine.
- Slowly add the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Let it knead for 10 - 15 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Let the dough ferment/rest for 1 hour in a bowl and cover it with dry towel/ folio
- After one hour, add the dried fruits and nuts into the dough. Mix it well.
- Place the dough on top of table. Sprinkle some flour.
- Roll it flat around 3 cm. Fold the dough from one end to the middle and fold the other side on top of the fold.
- Place it on baking paper. Let it proof for another 45 minutes.
- Bake the fruit cake in 180 C oven for 45 minutes.
- Remove it out of oven. Cool it down for 10 minutes
- Melt the butter. Brush the butter on top of the cake.
- Sprinkle enough sugar powder.
- Cool it down. Slice it into two and pack it with aluminium folio and keep it for one week.
- The cake will be compact and tasty.
A German Christmas Stollen is made with an enriched, yeasted dough that is filled with dried fruits, spices, nuts and sometimes marzipan. This traditional German Christmas recipe is a very special treat that has a long history and is very popular during the Holidays. It needs a bit of time to develop its flavor but is totally worth the effort and tastes great with a cup of coffee! Christmas stollen, known in Germany as Christstollen, is a yeast bread that is baked with dried fruits, candied citrus peel, nuts and spices. Variations include Mandelstollen (almond), Mohnstollen (poppy seed), Quarkstollen (quark), Nuss-Stollen (nuts), Butterstollen (high butter content), Dresdner Stollen and Marzipanstollen. 'Last Christmas' is being played on the radio, putting up Christmas decoration, panicking about presents, drinking mould wine at Christmas markets and eating loads of food - that must be Christmas time!
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