Christmas Stollen #recipe
Good morning, kittens and dawgs! On Tuesday, I presented my Peppermint Cathys recipe. I mentioned that I wanted to share a Christmas Stollen recipe with you and so I’m making good on that promise.
Over the years, we have bought stollen. It’s really good stuff. Stollen comes from Germany and it’s a cake-like fruit bread. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
Last Christmas DH found a recipe on the Kitchen Stories app. I was skeptical about making it because I felt intimidated. I think this has something to do with residual low-esteem hanging around in the recesses of my brain that comes out now and then to play with my head. I didn’t allow it to dictate me this time and decided to take a stab at it.
The recipe turned out to be simple and straight forward. I didn’t have a single problem. The real pay off came in the joy it gave me make. It just felt Christmasy! The good news is the finished product turned out pretty darn good for my first try. pat self on back
The first attempt was so good, I decided I will make another. And, while I can’t offer you a slice, I can share a virtual bite with you.
I can’t believe next Thursday is Christmas Eve, folks. Can you? I sure do appreciate you making me a part of your day. Drop in next Tuesday for another new Christmas Recipe ~ Springerle Cookies. I’m busy in the kitchen, but I’ll eventually make my rounds to all who visit.
8 Comments
Birgit
This sounds excellent! You know what? My mom told me Oma (my grandmother) always placed icing sugar all; around the loaf as well, not just on the top. My mom often found the store bought stollen too dry. I have not made it to tell you the truth for the same reason you mentioned…fear! I have to say my mom told me the story of them walking through the snow with their mom. Oma pulling the sleigh with the freshly baled stollen on top. The smell of the cake along with the beautiful winter scene made it sound magical. I bought Marzipan in a regular store last year and I couldn’t taste it at all! You did the correct thing to buy it where you did.
Cathy Kennedy
Birgit, We found store-bought stollens a bit dry, too. There is a company in Massachusetts that makes an excellent stollen that we often bought in the past; it’s very good, but a bit dry. I think that’s a common flaw of all store-bought stollens or at least from our experience. Thanks for stopping in to read over my stollen recipe. I consider this an honor by someone such as yourself who has a German heritage. Let me just say this recipe was easier than I thought it would be. The biggest problem was finding the marzipan and dried candied fruit, but thankfully Amazon came through for me yielding fabulous results. Incidentally, I did make the recipe on Friday. The changes vastly improved it and we liked it to begin with, so that’s saying a lot. While the stollen is warm, its a bit moist, but as it cools off it becomes drier. I think I may decrease the bake time a bit next year to see, if that corrects this problem because after I pulled it out of the oven I brushed a lot of butter all over the exterior and then rolled it in confectioners’ sugar hoping to lock in the moisture. Anyway, I encourage you, if you’d like that fresh baked goodness of a home-made stollen then to give this a try. I think you’ll be happy, if you do.
Liz A.
That looks a little too hard for me. Good job!
Rorybore
Looks yummy!! Probably too complicated for me — most of my recipes have no more than 5 ingredients LOL
but today I did a big amount of my holiday baking: shortbread, rice krispy squares, haystacks, peanutty caramel cookies, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I bought some Christmas tins from the dollar store and put a little bit of each goodie inside each tin, and then into the freezer they go until I need them. It’s just nice to have in case you get invited somewhere over the holidays, or have people drop by.
madilynquinn01
I’ve never heard of this before.. it looks good though!
Cathy Kennedy
Madilyn it’s really good stuff. If you like fruit cake, then you will like this. It’s an easy recipe, if you want to try it.
Janie Junebug
That looks good. Not that I’m going to make it, but I can’t eat nuts so I’d have to leave them out. I detest raisins. They look like dead flies and feel squishy in my mouth, so I’d leave out the raisins, too. When I was growing up, we had my mom’s Norwegian specialties at Christmastime.
Love,
Janie
Cathy Kennedy
Janie, well too bad you can’t eat nuts. I love raisins! DH tolerates them. Until this very moment I had forgotten when I was a kid I thought raisins looked like dead flies, too. But… that made it all the more fun to eat them. lol Norwegian specialties, you say? Is cinnamon rolls one of them? I would love to hear about your Christmas traditions growing up. Thanks for stopping by!