Recipe Details
Christstollen (Dresden Christmas Bread)
The iconic German Christmas bread — a rich, dense loaf packed with rum-soaked fruits, marzipan, and spices, then buried under butter and powdered sugar to form a white crust that keeps for weeks.
Prep Time
8 hours
Category
Bread
Ingredients
17
Steps
8
Recipe and Instructions
500 gstrong white bread flour
7 ginstant yeast
80 gcaster sugar
1 tspfine salt
200 mlwarm whole milk
120 gunsalted butter, softened
1egg
300 gmixed dried fruits (raisins, currants, mixed peel, dried cherries)
100 gblanched almonds, roughly chopped
4 tbspdark rum
1 tspground cinnamon
1/2 tspground cardamom
1/4 tspground nutmeg
1lemon, zested
250 gmarzipan log
100 gunsalted butter, melted (for after baking)
200 gpowdered sugar (for coating)
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