Christstollen, a German Christmas sweet

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By Ángela

Christmas is also celebrated in the rest of the world with traditional sweets and desserts. In addition to eating marzipan, polvorones and nougat, these parties we could try to make a christmas stollen.

This typical German cake is a kind of bread filled with dried fruits that is served as a dessert at Christmas and even in Advent. Done correctly, its shape should remind us of the newborn Baby Jesus wrapped in his swaddling clothes. This is why the Christstolen is covered with icing sugar and has an elongated shape.

Christstollen

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At Christmas, enjoy Christstollen, a German Christmas sweet that tastes great and that now you too can enjoy with this recipe

Christstollen
  • Ángela
  • Kitchen: cuisine
  • Recipe type: dessert
  • Rations: 12
  • Total time:

Ingredients

  • 375 gr. pastry flour
  • 100 ml. milk
  • 40 gr. Fresh Yeast
  • 50 gr. sugar
  • 175 gr. of butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 300 gr. of raisins
  • 100 ml. brandy or rum
  • 75 gr. chopped nuts
  • the grated zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
  • sugar glass
  • a pinch of salt

Preparation

  1. We start by mixing the flour with the crumbled fresh yeast, warm milk and a teaspoon of sugar

  2. We remove this mass and let it ferment for 15 minutes in a closed place (a drawer, the microwave or the oven off)

  3. At the same time, we will macerate the raisins in the liquor.

  4. After the time we add the rest of the sugar, salt, zest, eggs and softened butter

  5. We knead everything very well until we obtain a homogeneous paste, at which point we will add the drained raisins and the nuts

  6. We mix and let the dough ferment in a covered container in the same previous place until it doubles its volume.

  7. Once the rising time has elapsed, we stretch the dough to form a square

  8. Fold the dough over itself

  9. With our hands we are shaping the dough as if it were a log or a baguette of bread

  10. We return again to let the covered mass double its volume.

  11. When it increases, we can put the dough bun on a baking tray lined with special paper and bake the christstollen at about 175 degrees for about 40 minutes or so.

  12. After the baking time, we check that it is golden and cooked inside with a needle and we remove it

  13. Still hot, we spread it with a little melted butter

  14. Let it cool on a rack and finally sprinkle it with icing sugar.

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