How To Make Christmas Stollen For The Festive Holidays

A fantastic step by step recipe video tutorial to watch showing you how you can make this wonderful stollen for the season festive celebration , there is nothing quite like baking over the festive holidays and I am sure this recipe will be a hit  .. happy baking x

Here below is a excerpt about stollen from the website along with the ingredients you will need plus the video to watch

A fruited yeast bread filled with marzipan in the centre. It’s an essential part of Christmas all over Germany, Austria and parts of France and we think its a real treat to serve this for breakfast over the holidays

Ingredients

350g strong white flour
Pinch of fine salt
2 teaspoons easy-bake yeast
40g currants (I like pinhead)
25g whole candied peel, finely chopped (or 25g Waitrose Cooks’ Homebaking Mixed Peel)
50g sultanas
40g no-soak apricots, chopped
40g natural glacé cherries, quartered
25g almonds, chopped (skin on)
Grated zest of 1 lemon
40g golden caster sugar
110g spreadable butter
110ml hand-hot milk
1 large egg, beaten
175g white almond icing (marzipan)

FOR THE GLAZE

110g icing sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon lemon juice

EQUIPMENT

You will need a large baking sheet with a liner, or well-greased, and one or two large polythene bags

For any ingredient conversions there is a chart on Afternoon Baking With Grandma main page or here is a Conversion Calculator from dianasdesserts website link is below

http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/tools.measures/measures.cfm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNc7ELfJrZw

Photo source 

Full written recipe is available on the waitrose website please use the next page link below

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