German
Christmas
Stollen
Recipe adapted from various internet findings and
developed by Lisa.
READ THROUGH ENTIRE RECIPE BEFORE
BEGINNING
Dough
· 2 1/4 cups flour
(I did half all-purpose flour and half almond flour)
· 1/2 cup
granulated sugar
· 1 1/2
teaspoons baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon
salt*
· 1/2 cup (8
tablespoons) cold butter
· 1 cup ricotta
cheese, part-skim milk type
· 1 large egg
· 1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
· 1 1/2
teaspoons Buttery Sweet Dough Flavor*
· 3-4 drops of
(doTerra) lemon oil
· ¾ C dried
cherries, chopped up
· 1/3 cup
slivered almonds, toasted and cooled ( I also chopped these a bit)
· Candied orange
peel (I made these, didn’t let them dry, chopped them while warm and threw them
in.)
· Almond Paste
to line the inside (I got mine at Fresh Market)
· *Truly- this
stuff is amazing and I’ve never heard of it, but I found my buttery sweet dough
flavoring at Orson Gygi, I also got my almond butter there.
Topping
· 6 tablespoons
butter, melted (to spread on top after baking)
· 3/4 cup
confectioners' sugar (I did half powdered and half granulated)
Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 325°F. Lightly grease a baking sheet, or line
it with parchment.
2. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a
mixing bowl.
3. Cut the cold butter into small chunks, then blend it into the
flour mixture to form uneven crumbs.
4. In a separate bowl, mix together the cheese, egg, vanilla, and
flavors.
5. Toss the fruit and almonds with the flour mixture until evenly
distributed. Then combine the wet and dry ingredients, mixing until most of the
flour is moistened.
6. Lightly flour your hands and separate dough into two balls.**
7. Roll each piece of dough into an 8" x 7" oval about
1/2" thick. Line the inside with almond paste.
8. Fold each piece of dough roughly in half**, leaving the edge of
the top half about 1/2" short of the edge of the bottom half. Use the edge
of your hand to press the dough to seal about 1" in back of the open edge;
this will make the traditional stollen shape. It's also the familiar Parker
House roll shape, if you've ever made them.
9. Place the shaped stollen on the prepared baking sheet.
10. Bake the stollen till they're very lightly browned around the
edges, about 40 minutes. A cake tester inserted into the center should come out
clean.
11.
Remove the stollen from the oven, and transfer to a rack. Brush
them each with 2 to 3 tablespoons melted butter. Sprinkle heavily with
confectioners' or non-melting white sugar.
12.
Plastic-wrapped stollen will keep well for 2 weeks or so at room
temperature.
13. Yield: two
1-lb. stollen loaves.
**MY dough was sticky, and they suggested “kneading it on a
floured surface”- however mine would have stuck to everything. So I floured my
hands and dumped a bit of flour over the dough in the bowl, then scooped out
half and formed it into the rectangle on the parchment on the cookie sheet.
After lining the inside with the almond paste, I picked up the side of the
parchment paper closest to me and used it to fold the dough over the paste on
top of itself. Then, I did the same with the other half, only formed it on a
piece of parchment on the counter. After folding it over, I cut the extra
parchment and placed the second stolen next to the one already on the cookie
sheet so I could bake them together. J
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