Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, stollen. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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. 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.
Stollen is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Stollen is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook stollen using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stollen:
- Get 500 g All-Purpose Flour
- Take 100 g Caster Sugar
- Get 150 g butter, softened
- Take 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
- Get 100 g sourdough starter
- Get 200 ml Whole Milk
- Make ready 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 2 drops almond extract
- Take 2 pinches mixed spice
- Prepare 7 g salt
- Prepare 200 g raisins/currants/dried blueberries etc
- Take 80 g mixed candied peel
- Get 100 ml cardamom coffee
- Take 225 g Marzipan
- Get melted butter
- Take icing sugar
Usually we order one from Dresden but last year I decided to make one.. Remove the stollen from the oven, and brush them with melted butter. Brush all over with room temperature butter and sprinkle with superfine sugar to cover. Chock-full of dried fruit, almonds, and spices, the German stollen is a dense bread that is traditionally oblong, symbolizing a swaddled infant.
Instructions to make Stollen:
- Make dough by mixing flour, sugar, starter, butter, egg, milk, vanilla extract, almond extract and mixed spice. Work into a dough and then knead for a bit. Work in the salt and then knead some more. 7 minutes kneading in total.
- Leave to prove for 5hours at 20C. While it is proving, make a coffee. Not for you - we are going to soak the fruit in it. Ideally you want to make a double espresso with about 8 cardamom pods in it. (crack them, so liquid can get into the pods, but don't open them so the seeds fall out). Add the cardamom pods while the coffee is still hot, and then leave to sit at room temp for an hour or so.
- Remove the cardamom pods from the coffee and pour the coffee into a bowl containing the raisins and the mixed peel. Stir occasionally over the course of the next few hours (while the dough is still proving).
- Make Marzipan (unless you just bought it).
- When the dough has finished proving (it might have doubled in size, don't worry if it hasn't quite) drain any excess liquid from the fruit and work it into the dough by doing a series of folds. This becomes quite hard work when there is a lot of fruit. Don't worry if you can't get it all into the dough.
- When the fruit is evenly distributed, roll it flat to about 45cm x 35cm. Roll the Marzipan flat to 35cm x 20cm. place the Marzipan on top of the dough and roll it up so that you have a sausage-shaped loaf with a swirl of dough running through the centre. It should be quite big. Don't worry if there is exposed marzipan sticking out the end. This will turn into the most excellent burnt bits imaginable.
- Leave to prove for another 2 hours.
- Bake at 180C for 1 hr.
- Poke holes in the dough using a cake tester, then melt butter onto the surface and try to work it into the holes. When the Stollen has cooled, dust with icing sugar.
The first and most famous variety of stollen is the Dresdner Christstollen. 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. If you want stollen you need to use cardamom. German Stollen is loaded with rum raisins, candied fruit, and nuts.
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