Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake
Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake

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A favorite holiday sweet bread, Dresden has the most famous Christmas Stollen. There's no need to take a trip to Germany because you can bake your own at home with little trouble in a few hours. Christmas Stollen, or Christstollen, is full of nuts, raisins, and candied fruit, and creates a delicious holiday treat.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:
  1. Make ready 500 gr all purpose flour
  2. Get 1 egg
  3. Make ready 150 gr butter
  4. Take 100 g sugar
  5. Make ready 150 ml milk
  6. Get 7 gr / 1 pack dry yeast
  7. Take 120 gr raisin (soaked in rum)
  8. Make ready 50 gr zitronat / dried lemon
  9. Make ready 50 gr orangeat / dried orange
  10. Prepare 100 gr chopped almond
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
  12. Make ready 1/4 tsp clove powder
  13. Take 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
  14. Get Garnish:
  15. Take 50 gr melted butter
  16. Make ready Powder sugar

This German Christmas Stollen is filled with A LOT of fruit, which, in my opinion, is absolutely essential for any Christmassy, fruit cake! 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. There are many different Stollen bakers all over Germany today, but the […] German Stollen, traditional German Christmas Fruit Cake.

Steps to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
  1. 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.
  2. In a bowl, add flour, butter, egg, sugar. Mix it with low speed kitchen machine.
  3. Slowly add the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Let it knead for 10 - 15 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
  4. Let the dough ferment/rest for 1 hour in a bowl and cover it with dry towel/ folio
  5. After one hour, add the dried fruits and nuts into the dough. Mix it well.
  6. Place the dough on top of table. Sprinkle some flour.
  7. 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.
  8. Place it on baking paper. Let it proof for another 45 minutes.
  9. Bake the fruit cake in 180 C oven for 45 minutes.
  10. Remove it out of oven. Cool it down for 10 minutes
  11. Melt the butter. Brush the butter on top of the cake.
  12. Sprinkle enough sugar powder.
  13. Cool it down. Slice it into two and pack it with aluminium folio and keep it for one week.
  14. The cake will be compact and tasty.

Click image to license as stock photo. 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). German Stollen is loaded with rum raisins, candied fruit, and nuts. 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!

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