Stollen cake
1 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
2 | pounds | Flour |
2 | ounces | Yeast |
Melted butter | ||
Salt | ||
1 | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
1 | teaspoon | Ground nutmeg |
1 | teaspoon | Ground ginger |
1 | Teacup of raisins mixed with chopped | |
; crystallised oranges and lemons | ||
1 | Handful glace cherries | |
1 | Handful almond flakes |
Directions
Mix the flour, yeast, a little melted butter and salt together with enough water to make a firm dough. Leave to rise for two hours.
Take the dough and roll out into a thick slab. Then add one spice or fruit ingredient and fold the pastry over after each addition.
Shape into a rough log and bake in a medium oven for 70 minutes for a spicy Christmas treat that's been enjoyed in Austria and Germany for several hundred years.
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