Stollen bread – German Christmas bread
How to make Stollen bread
Step 1
Prepare the required materials;
Step 2
Put bread flour, milk powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and yeast into a mixer cup in a chef’s machine;
Step 3
After mixing the water and red wine, pour it into the mixing cup of the chef machine and start kneading;
Step 4
Mix and stir until the dough can open the thick film;
Step 5
Add butter and continue stirring;
Step 6
Stir until the surface of the dough is smooth and malleable;
Step 7
Add raisins, dried blueberries, dried papaya and walnut kernels;
Step 8
After mixing well, put in a warm place for the first fermentation;
Step 9
The dough is about twice the size of the original;
Step 10
After the dough is exhausted, it is divided into two parts, kneaded into a circle, and relaxed at room temperature for 15 minutes;
Step 11
After relaxing, you can shape it, take a piece of dough and roll it out into a rectangle on the chopping board;
Step 12
Fold the dough in half, the bottom side should be about 1.5CM more than the top side, and press it on the dough with a rolling pin;
Step 13
Put the shaped dough on a baking sheet and ferment it at a temperature of 38 degrees and a humidity of more than 80%.
Step 14
When fermentation reaches 1 times the volume, put it in a preheated oven at 185 degrees and bake for about 30 minutes;
Step 15
After removing the baked Stollen, brush the surface with a layer of melted butter;
Step 16
After cooling, sprinkle with a layer of powdered sugar.
Cooking tips for Stollen bread
1. When this bread is finally fermented, it does not need to be fermented to 1.5 times the size like ordinary bread, and it can be fermented to 1 time; 2. This bread is very durable to store, even if it is brushed with melted butter after baking, it can moisturize the bread, and then stored for 1 month is not a problem at all. 3. Cut into slices of stollen, eat it with coffee or red wine, it has a unique flavor.
