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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. Like other Christmas fruit bread recipes, stollen is best when made weeks in advance.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christstollen/german christmas fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:

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

Der „Christstollen" ist ein Kuchen aus einem schweren Hefeteig, der aus Butter, Milch, Mehl, Gewürzen, Trockenfrüchten und Mandeln besteht. Christmas is just around the corner. Something that has been in the traditions of Germans from generation to generation - the Dresdner Christstollen. A German sweet bread filled with dried fruit and nuts.

Instructions 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.

Typically a yeast bread, but here · 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. Stollen is the traditional German Christmas bread like cake packed with mixed candied fruits, almonds, and spices. Also known as Christstollen, or Weihnachtsstollen. To know more about Stollen history read here.

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