Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christstollen/german christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Christstollen/German christmas fruit cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Stollen is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after Weihnachten, the German word for Christmas). Sweet cakes and breads studded with candied fruits and nuts are hallmarks of Christmas baking in The first and most famous variety of stollen is the Dresdner Christstollen. Some historians date its origin Our German Christmas Stollen Recipe.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Prepare all purpose flour
2. Make ready egg
3. Prepare butter
4. Make ready sugar
5. Make ready milk
6. Take / 1 pack dry yeast
7. Take raisin (soaked in rum)
8. Prepare zitronat / dried lemon
9. Take orangeat / dried orange
10. Prepare chopped almond
11. Take cinnamon powder
12. Take clove powder
13. Prepare cardamon powder
14. Make ready Garnish:
15. Prepare melted butter
16. Make ready Powder sugar

German Christstollen (Fruit Cake) in a Glass Jar. I already have a nice recipe for a traditional German Christstollen here on the blog… well, maybe not that traditional since I threw out the candied orange and lemon peel and used other dried fruits instead - nonetheless, this Christmas Stollen with. Christmas is just around the corner. Where it came from, how it got its name, how and why.

Steps 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!

Christmas is just around the corner. Where it came from, how it got its name, how and why. After reading all about the English Fruit Cake/ Christmas Cake, let us now travel southwards to my second home Germany to 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. Christmas cake, german christstollen with fruits, raisins and marzipan in front of two red candles and nuts on rustic dark wood.

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