Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, stollen. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Stollen is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Stollen is something which I have loved my entire life.
Stollen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlən] or ()) is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar. To commemorate this event, a Stollenfest is held each December in Dresden. Stollen is a wonderful accompaniment to coffee or tea and it wouldn't be Christmas in our house without it!
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stollen using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stollen:
- Get For Marzipan
- Take 75 g almond powder
- Take 25 g sugar
- Prepare 25 g granulated sugar
- Make ready 1/2 egg white
- Prepare For Bread dough
- Make ready 25 g butter or margarine
- Make ready 175 g all-purpose flour*
- Prepare lemon peel of 1/2 lemon
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 90 ml milk
- Get 1/4 tsp spices of your choice
- Get 1/2 tsp active east
- Prepare nuts (walnuts, hazel nuts etc.) and dried fruits (raisins, orange peel, apricot etc.)
- Prepare *you can mix bread flour and pastry flour
Chock-full of dried fruit, almonds, and spices, the German stollen is a dense bread that is traditionally oblong, symbolizing a swaddled infant. The first and most famous variety of stollen is the Dresdner Christstollen. German Stollen is a rich, buttery bread packed with almonds, citrus peel, and rum-soaked raisins and dried fruit and typically enjoyed around Christmas time. The bread can be made weeks ahead of time and just gets better with each passing day.
Steps to make Stollen:
- Prepare the marzipan. Mix the almond powder, sugar and granulated sugar.
- Add the egg white and mix well until the dough until it sticks together.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and make a bar (about 20-25 cm long). Store in a fridge.
- Prepare the bread dough. Mix all the ingredients except for dried fruits and nuts. And knead well. Then, add the fruits and nuts. Let it rise in a warm place until the size doubles.
- Spread the dough to 25-30cm long. Place the marzipan bar slightly to your side from the center. and fold from the other side to your side to cover the marzipan. Use some water to stick the both ends of the dough.
- Let it rise in a warm place for about 30-60 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200 C.
- Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes. Turn in the middle if necessary.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar.
This makes it perfect to give as gifts or to bring as hostess gifts for parties. 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. German Stollen Bread is a classic yet soft buttery cake made with various nuts. The base flavour it carries is of rum, marzipan and cinnamon which in all is an exotic combination to have.
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