Dresden Stollen (Dresdner Stollen)
Stollen is a rich, sweet cake filled with fruits and nuts, and Stollen from Dresden are particularly well-known. A masterpiece of baking, treasured around the world. The product's long shelf life also makes it a perfect gift for any food lover. Dresden Stollen has a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) from the EU, meaning it can only be produced in a certain geographical area—Dresden—according to a defined recipe, and largely by hand.
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups raisins 600 g
- 4 tablespoons rum
- 8 cups flour 1 kg
- 1-2 cups milk 250-500 ml
- 2 packages dry yeast (or 2 cubes of fresh yeast if available)
- 1 cup sugar 200 g
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Grated rind of 1 lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mace or nutmeg
- 1 lb unsalted butter 453.6 g
- 3.5 oz almonds ground or finely chopped, 100 g
- 4 oz candied lemon peel finely chopped, 113 g
- 4 oz candied orange peel finely chopped, 113 g
- Unsalted butter for coating
- Confectioner's sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Soak raisins in rum overnight.
- Combine flour, milk, yeast, sugar, salt and butter to form a smooth yeast dough. Incorporate almonds, candied lemon and orange peel, mace and raisins, one after another always kneading the dough thoroughly. Let rest for 1 hour. Knead the dough once more, divide into two and shape two Stollen loaves.
- Bake for about 1 hour in preheated oven at 350° F
- After baking the Stollen, brush them with melted butter and dust generously with confectioner's sugar.
- Stollen has a long shelf life and can be made weeks ahead of Christmas