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

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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. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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. Prepare 1 egg
  3. Prepare 150 gr butter
  4. Get 100 g sugar
  5. Make ready 150 ml milk
  6. Prepare 7 gr / 1 pack dry yeast
  7. Take 120 gr raisin (soaked in rum)
  8. Take 50 gr zitronat / dried lemon
  9. Get 50 gr orangeat / dried orange
  10. Prepare 100 gr chopped almond
  11. Make ready 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
  12. Take 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

The Stollen is Germany's answer to the Fruit Cake. It is quite similar in preparation and ingredients but is more like a bread and less dense compared to the fruit cake. The Christstollen has been around for centuries now. It is a yeasted bread baked with a mix of rum soaked dry fruits, nuts, spices and candied citrus peel.

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.
  15. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The Christstollen has been around for centuries now. It is a yeasted bread baked with a mix of rum soaked dry fruits, nuts, spices and candied citrus peel. Remove the stollen from the oven, and brush them with melted butter. Transfer to a rack to cool completely. marzipan stollen traditional german christmas butter cake dessert with marzipan & almonds

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