German Stollen- so good!

Ingredients

• 600 g flour
• 40 g fresh yeast
• 100 g almonds, roughly chopped
• 120 ml warm milk
• 200 g butter, room temperature and cut in cubes
• 100 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 generous pinch of salt
• 100 g marzipan
• 100 g raisins
• 50 g candied oranges
• 50 g candied lemons
• 70 ml rum
• 100 g butter
• 50 g powdered sugar

Instructions

1. 1

   If you can start the evening before and soak the raisins, the candied oranges and candied lemons overnight in the rum to enhance the flavor.

2. 2

   In a big bowl, mix together the milk with the yeast and sugar and let it rest for 15 minutes.

3. 3

   In the meantime, prepare your other ingredients.

4. 4

   Add the flour, the butter, egg, salt and marzipan and knead the dough.

5. 5

   Let it rest for 30 minutes

6. 6

   Add the chopped almonds and the dried fruits with the rum to the dough and knead all together.

7. 7

   Prepare a baking sheet with baking paper.

8. 8

   Sprinkle your workspace with some flour and then shape the dough in a stollen form.

9. 9

   If you have a stollen form-use it. If not take some tinfoil and fold a rectangular circle with it.

10. 10

    Place the dough on the baking paper and cover it with a kitchen towel.

11. 11

    Let it rest for another 30 minutes and preheat the oven to 180°C.

12. 12

    Bake the Stollen in the oven for 50 minutes- please do the classic tooth pick test to make sure it is fully baked.

13. 13

    Just before the Stollen is finished, melt the butter in a small pot

14. 14

    When the stollen is finished, brush the stollen with the melted butter until the butter is soaked in.

15. 15

    Generously cover the Stollen with the powdered sugar

16. 16

    Let it cool down and enjoy!