• Christmas Stollen With Almonds & Marzipan

    From Ben Collver@1:124/5016 to All on Tue Feb 27 10:19:22 2024
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    Title: Christmas Stollen With Almonds & Marzipan
    Categories: Cakes, Christmas, German
    Yield: 1 Cake

    100 g Mixed dried fruit; with peel
    180 ml Apple juice
    7 g Dried yeast
    250 g Plain flour; plus a little
    -extra for dusting
    30 g Blanched whole almonds
    1 pn Ground cinnamon; generous
    1 pn Ground anise or allspice;
    -generous
    1 pn Ground cloves; scant
    75 g Marzipan; cold, cut into
    -small pieces
    10 g Butter; melted
    1 tb Icing sugar

    Soak the dried fruit in 100 ml of hot water. Gently warm the apple
    juice for a few mins in a pan, then add the yeast and leave to
    activate for 10-15 minutes (it will start to bubble).

    Put the flour in a bowl. Stir in the yeast and apple juice mixture to
    form a smooth dough, then cover and leave to prove somewhere warm
    until roughly doubled in size, about 1-2 hours. You can also put the
    dough in the fridge to rise slowly overnight.

    Drain the fruit and add to the dough along with the nuts, spices and
    marzipan. Squish everything together, then turn the dough out onto a
    lightly floured work surface and knead until the fruit stays in the
    dough.

    Shape the dough into a sausage shape and put it on a baking tray
    lined with baking parchment. Cover with a clean tea towel and leave
    to prove somewhere warm for 30 minutes to 1 hour until it has risen
    by about a quarter.

    Heat oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4. Bake the stollen for 20
    minutes, then reduce oven to 150°C/130°C fan/gas 2 and bake for
    25-30 minutes more until golden brown and firm to the touch.

    Remove the stollen from the oven and brush all over with the melted
    butter. Dust with the icing sugar and leave to cool completely before
    slicing. Store any remaining stollen, well wrapped, in an airtight
    container.

    Recipe by Claire Thomson

    Source: BBC Good Food

    Recipe FROM: <https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/1833611297339517/
    Butterstollen-Thueringer-Art.html>

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