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Make sure the marzipan is folded in well or it may run. This German stollen with dried fruits, almonds, and marzipan is so delicious! It's made with Christmas spices and it's just the perfect treat for This stollen is absolutely perfect to embrace the Christmas season!
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have sig's fine german christmas stollen with marzipan using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Fine German Christmas Stollen with Marzipan:
- Get 75 grams mixed raisins and sultanas
- Take 50 ml liqueur, I use cherry brandy but any fruit liqueur will do.
- Get 30 grams finely chopped hazelnuts
- Take 30 grams ground almonds
- Take 250 grams all-purpose flour (plain) flour
- Prepare 2 tsp baking powder (not baking soda)
- Make ready 50 grams candid orange or mixed peel
- Take 2 tbsp candied cherries finely chopped , optional
- Take 75 grams soft butter
- Get 75 grams caster ( superfine ) sugar
- Get 2 small or 1 large egg
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/2 tsp Orange blossom or orange extract
- Make ready 1/4 tsp rum aroma (flavouring)
- Take 135 grams best German quark if you can get it , if not any quark will do but let it drain well in any case. If you can't get quark use mascarpone or any similar soft cheese
- Get 50 grams or more marzipan, I use brandy marzipan ,but any will do , optional
- Take 2 tbsp butter, melted for brushing
- Make ready 50 grams icing sugar for dusting
Dresden has the most famous Christmas Stollen, but you can bake your own with little Return dough to floured board and form into a rectangle with two high sides and a dip in. The Marzipan: Marzipan could be prepared the night before or prior to knead dough. At Christmas this bakery makes a selection of German inspired treats. Stollen is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar.
Steps to make Sig's Fine German Christmas Stollen with Marzipan:
- Soak your raisins and sultanas in your chosen liqueur, set aside, for about 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 180C
- In a smallish bowl mix your flour and baking powder well. Add the chopped hazelnuts and the ground almond.
- Add the orange peel, cherries( if using ) and soaked sultanas and raisins without the soaking liqueur, set the liquid aside .Stir the flour/fruit and nut mixture thoroughly.
- In a larger bowl whisk the softened butter with the sugar, add the eggs whisk until light and creamy
- Add the flavourings, vanilla,orange blossom and rum aroma. Then add the quark. Stir thoroughly.
- Add the flour/fruit and nut mixture to the butter/egg mixture a spoon at a time. Until almost all gone, pour in half of the soaking liquid, then add the remainder of the flour mixture ensuring it gets well combined.
- If it is to wet add a little extra flour.Flour a table or cake board and flatten the dough into a oval shape this dough is not pliable it is more loose but you can still get hold of it in one go .
- If you are using the marzipan, roll it about little finger width size into a sausage shape that is almost as long as the oval shape and lay it onto the dough about two thirds up . Now roll the smaller top over the marzipan and fold onto the Lower part. Make sure the marzipan is folded in well or it may run .The loaf should be a little thicker at one end as it is meant to resemble a sleeping baby. Slightly curve the loaf . Carefully move onto your flat baking tray.
- Cover lightly with baking or parchment paper or use a thin silicone liner put into oven and bake for about 45 minutes.
- Immediately after the Stollen comes out of the oven brush it with the 2 tablespoons of butter all over and leave to cool. When cooled down dust with icing sugar .
- This can be made up to about 6 -8 weeks ahead to achieve a so called ripening, if you do , wrap the Stollen securely into tinfoil and keep in a very cold room or space, we put it in the garage , but not the fridge, because of moist and odour from other food items
- This Stollen is good to eat from day one of you like
It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen or Christstollen. This is my recipe for Stollen which I. Stollen, a traditional German Christmas bread. It is made with candied fruit, butter, marzipan and decorated with icing sugar. This bread of German origin also known as Weihnachtsstollen or Christstollen is usually served as a dessert at Christmas or Advent.
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