Stollen recipe with step by step pictures. Stollen is a traditional German bread usually eaten during the Christmas season. Bread has dried fruits and nuts added in it usually it has marzipan used in the recipe for stollen.
Stollen Recipe
WIKI: Stollen is a fruit bread containing dried fruit and often covered with powdered sugar or icing sugar. The bread is usually made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts and spices. Stollen is a traditional German bread usually eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten") or Christstollen (after Christ).
Mixture of dried fruits is added in the stollen. Here are Dried Fruits which I used in the recipe. Raisans , Tutti fruity , Cranberries , Sultanas, Cherries. You can use any dried fruits as you like.
There are so many variations this stollen is made, some recipes has a marzipan stuffed inside the bread. But this version which i am showing you is easy to make and it taste amazing with a cup of coffee or tea. You can even use this bread to make french toast on the christmas morning. Leftover stollen makes a great bread pudding.
How to Make Stollen Recipe
- Couple days before baking, soak dried fruits in rum.
- Heat warm milk in a bowl, add sugar and mix well. Add in yeast and set aside for 5 mins so the yeast activates.
- Now add in egg and whisk well.
- Now take flour, salt in a bowl and whisk well.
- Add in the soaked dried fruits and mix well.
- Add the milk mix and melted butter and knead to a dough.
- Cover and set aside for 1 hour.
- Now punch back the air out and add the spice powders and knead well.
- Now Shape it into log like and place it in a parchment lined baking pan.
- Let it rise for 30 mins. During the last 10 mins of rising, preheat oven to 190 degree C.
- Now brush the top with egg and bake for 25 to 30 mins in a 190 degree C / 375 degree F. oven.
- Remove from oven and brush the top with melted butter. Once it is cooled enough, sprinkle top with confectioners sugar. Slice and serve.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
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Stollen Recipe | Recipe for German Stollen Bread
Ingredients
- Warm Milk - ¾ cup
- Sugar - 3 tblspn
- Dry Yeast - 2 tsp
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 2 cups + more as needed
- Salt - ¼ tsp
- Butter - 4 tblspn melted
- Dried fruits - ¾ cup
- Rum - 3 tblspn
- Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp
- Nutmeg Powder - ¼ tsp
- Cloves Powder - ¼ tsp
- Egg - 1
- Confectioners Sugar / Icing Sugar - ¼ cup for dusting on top
Instructions
- Couple days before baking, soak dried fruits in rum.
- Heat warm milk in a bowl, add sugar and mix well. Add in yeast and set aside for 5 mins so the yeast activates.
- Now add in egg and whisk well.
- Now take flour, salt in a bowl and whisk well.
- Add in the soaked dried fruits and mix well.
- Add the milk mix and melted butter and knead to a dough.
- Cover and set aside for 1 hour.
- Now punch back the air out and add the spice powders and knead well.
- Now Shape it into log like and place it in a parchment lined baking pan.
- Let it rise for 30 mins. During the last 10 mins of rising, preheat oven to 190 degree C / 375 degree F. oven.
- Now brush the top with egg and bake for 25 to 30 mins in a 190 degree C / 375 degree F. oven.
- Remove from oven and brush the top with melted butter. Once it is cooled enough, sprinkle top with confectioners sugar. Slice and serve.
German Stollen with Step by Step Pictures
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| Couple days back, take dried fruits in a bowl |
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| add rum or wine |
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| mix well..set this aside for couple of days. |
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| Take milk in a sauce pan and warm it slightly |
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| add sugar |
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| sprinkle yeast over it |
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| set aside for 5 mins till it activates |
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| add in one egg |
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| whisk well |
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| take butter in a pan and melt it |
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| take flour in a bowl |
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| add salt |
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| mix well |
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| add some of the soaked dry fruits..the fruits are soaked in little rum |
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| mix well |
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| add the egg mix |
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| add melted butter |
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| mix to a dough |
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| now the dough is done |
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| cover and set aside somewhere warm for 1 hour |
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| now it is well risen |
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| transfer the dough to a floured surface |
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| sprinkle over spice powders |
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| knead well |
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| shape like this |
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| fold like this |
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| pinch the edges |
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| fold like this |
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| place the dough in a baking pan |
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| let it rise for 30 mins or so..brush the top with beaten egg |
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| bake till golden |
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| brush the top with melted butter |
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| dust with icing sugar |
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| Slice and serve |
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Vidya Murugesan
Hi,
Which brand of yeast are you using?
Anonymous
sis can v bake this in cooker??
Aarthi
yes u can