How to Prepare Perfect Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF

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Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF. This is Patrick's take on Stollen bread. While not quite the same as the traditional version, his enriched brioche style bread dotted with dried fruits and. Like other Christmas fruit bread recipes, stollen is best when made weeks in advance.

Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF Christmas stollen bread with nuts and dried fruits on board. decorated with spruce branches. Christmas just isn't Christmas without German Stollen bread! I used to drive across town to our German bakery to buy a loaf of the buttery, powdered Stollen - German Christmas bread - is a delicious buttery bread with nuts, raisins, and sometimes marzipan inside. You can have Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF

  1. It's 500 grams of gluten-free flour / bread flour.
  2. You need 1/2 tsp of xanthan gum if using gluten-free flour.
  3. You need 7 grams of dried yeast.
  4. You need 100 grams of sugar.
  5. It's 200 grams of raisins.
  6. You need 100 grams of candied lemon peel.
  7. You need 50 grams of candied orange peel.
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp of rum.
  9. Prepare 1 pinch of ground mace.
  10. You need 1 pinch of ground aniseed.
  11. You need 1 pinch of ground cinnamon.
  12. It's 100 grams of flaked almonds.
  13. It's 1 tsp of fresh grated lemon zest.
  14. Prepare 200 ml of coconut milk.
  15. It's 130 grams of dairy free spread such as gold foil Stork etc.
  16. Prepare 125 grams of marzipan (check label as some are not egg-free).

This is a favourite German almondy christmas loaf. It takes a long time to make, but is very easy. The secret to a good Stollen: the best ingredients for fragrant soft bread, the best home made almond paste and the right bread to filling ratio! German stollen is a traditional Christmas bread, also known as Christstollen and Weihnachtsstollen, studded with nuts and fruits then dusted with icing sugar.

Vickys Christmas Stollen Bread, GF DF EF SF step by step

  1. Soak the raisins and candied peels in the rum and set aside. Mix the flour with the xanthan gum if using, the yeast and the sugar. Melt 100g of the margarine and combine with the warmed milk and ground spices. Make a well in the flour and add the liquid. Mix then knead until you form a smooth dough.
  2. Knead in the almonds, rum raisin mix and grated lemon zest. Lightly oil a large bowl, put the dough in and cover with a tea towel. Leave to rise in a warm place until the dough has doubled in size, an hour or 2.
  3. Take the dough out and knead again well. Leave to rise again for a further 20 minutes if using wheat based flour.
  4. Divide the dough in two and knead each down into a rectangle. Make 2 sausage shapes from the marzipan and lie in the middle of each dough rectangle. Wrap the dough around the marzipan and form a loaf shape. Place on a baking sheet and let rise again for another hour. Bake at gas 4 / 180C / 350°F for 40 minutes or until ready.
  5. Brush the loaves with the the 30g of remaining melted margarine then dust with some icing/powdered sugar. Wait 15 minutes then liberally dust again.
  6. Will keep for 1 week in an airtight container.

Stollen: The Ultimate German Christmas Bread. A make-ahead holiday classic that only gets better with age. Christmas Dresden Stollen Recipe - Bread Machine Instructions. My children and I love Stollen bread at Christmas time. This is a sweet bread like Challah and also contains candied fruits, raisins,nuts and citrus zest.