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German Stollen should be made ahead of time and allowed to age three weeks. Christstollen is a rich yeast dough full of raisins, nuts, and candied fruit. Below is the classic recipe of Dresdner Christstollen, or also known as German Christmas fruitcake.
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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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
- Prepare 500 gr all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 egg
- Take 150 gr butter
- Get 100 g sugar
- Make ready 150 ml milk
- Make ready 7 gr / 1 pack dry yeast
- Get 120 gr raisin (soaked in rum)
- Take 50 gr zitronat / dried lemon
- Get 50 gr orangeat / dried orange
- Get 100 gr chopped almond
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp clove powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
- Take Garnish:
- Get 50 gr melted butter
- Get Powder 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 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. German Stollen, traditional German Christmas Fruit Cake. Click image to license as stock photo.
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.
Stollen is a traditional German bread usually eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ). To prepare the dough: Using a stand mixer, mix and knead together all of the dough ingredients (except the almonds) to make a smooth, soft dough. To make the filling: Divide the marzipan into three. Wishing Everyone Merry X'mas and Happy Holidays! Stollen is the traditional German Christmas bread like cake packed with mixed candied fruits, almonds, and spices.
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