Christmas Stollen Recipe
This recipe is near and dear to my heart. When I was growing up, my mom would bake stollen for neighbor gifts and our Christmas breakfast. I took her original recipe and made a few tweaks, opting for a slightly softer dough and a layer of melted chocolate. If you’ve never made a stollen, this is the recipe for you!
Christmas Stollen
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minutesIf you’ve never made a stollen, this is the recipe for you!
Ingredients
- For the Yeast
2 packages 2 yeast
½ cup ½ warm water
1 tsp 1 sugar
- For the Dough
1 cup 1 milk
½ cup ½ butter
½ cup ½ sugar
1 tsp 1 salt
4-4 ½ cups 4-4 ½ flour
2 tsp 2 cardamom
- For the Filling
1 tbsp 1 lemon juice and zest
1 tbsp 1 orange juice and zest
1 tbsp 1 white rum
1 tbsp 1 brandy
1 tbsp 1 butter
1 tbsp 1 brown sugar
1 cup 1 walnuts (finely chopped)
1 tsp 1 cardamom
1 tsp 1 cinnamon
½ tsp ½ ginger
½ tsp ½ nutmeg
4 oz 4 semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
- For the Glaze
1 cup 1 powdered sugar
1 1 juice and zest of small orange
holiday sprinkles
Directions
- Preheat oven to proof setting.
- Mix yeast with one tsp sugar and warm water.
- Let it rise for five minutes.
- Melt butter in hot milk and set it aside.
- In a mixer, use a dough hook and combine sugar, salt, flour, and cardamom.
- Add the milk and yeast mixture, and combine on medium until a dough forms.
- Proof for thirty minutes or until the dough doubles in size.
- Shape the dough into two balls.
- Roll each into an oval, then fold it sideways.
- Spread a thin layer of chocolate, then add half of the filling.
- Fold the sides together and pinch the ends.
- Repeat for the second loaf.
- Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Proof for another thirty minutes.
- Then bake at 375° F for 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown.
- Drizzle with glaze and decorate with holiday sprinkles.
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