Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christstollen/german christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Below is the classic recipe of Dresdner Christstollen, or also known as German Christmas fruitcake. Using an electric mixer fitted with a hook, mix flour, remaining sugar, salt, butter, yeast and eggs on a medium speed until dough is smooth and elastic. German Stollen, traditional German Christmas Fruit Cake. Click image to license as stock photo.
Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
- Prepare 500 gr all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 egg
- Prepare 150 gr butter
- Take 100 g sugar
- Get 150 ml milk
- Prepare 7 gr / 1 pack dry yeast
- Get 120 gr raisin (soaked in rum)
- Get 50 gr zitronat / dried lemon
- Get 50 gr orangeat / dried orange
- Take 100 gr chopped almond
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp clove powder
- Get 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
- Prepare Garnish:
- Get 50 gr melted butter
- Make ready Powder sugar
It is a yeasted bread baked with a mix of rum soaked dry fruits, nuts, spices and candied citrus peel. Place the flour, remaining sugar, egg, egg yolks, butter, vanilla extract, lemon zest, salt, cardamom, mace and cinnamon in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. A German Christmas Stollen is made with an enriched, yeasted dough that is filled with dried fruits, spices, nuts and sometimes marzipan. This German Christmas Stollen is filled with A LOT of fruit, which, in my opinion, is absolutely essential for any Christmassy, fruit cake!
Steps to make Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake:
- 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.
- In a bowl, add flour, butter, egg, sugar. Mix it with low speed kitchen machine.
- Slowly add the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Let it knead for 10 - 15 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Let the dough ferment/rest for 1 hour in a bowl and cover it with dry towel/ folio
- After one hour, add the dried fruits and nuts into the dough. Mix it well.
- Place the dough on top of table. Sprinkle some flour.
- 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.
- Place it on baking paper. Let it proof for another 45 minutes.
- Bake the fruit cake in 180 C oven for 45 minutes.
- Remove it out of oven. Cool it down for 10 minutes
- Melt the butter. Brush the butter on top of the cake.
- Sprinkle enough sugar powder.
- Cool it down. Slice it into two and pack it with aluminium folio and keep it for one week.
- The cake will be compact and tasty.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
A German Christmas Stollen is made with an enriched, yeasted dough that is filled with dried fruits, spices, nuts and sometimes marzipan. This German Christmas Stollen is filled with A LOT of fruit, which, in my opinion, is absolutely essential for any Christmassy, fruit cake! Transfer to a food processor and grind the blanched almonds. Remove the stollen from the oven, and brush them with melted butter. Transfer to a rack to cool completely.
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