German-style Stollen

ingredients

Starter dough:

500g Wheat flour
35g Yeast, dry
250g Water

Main dough

200g SWEET SOFT 20
300g Wheat flour
80g Sugar
350g Butter
100g Eggs

Fruit mix

600g Raisins
200g Apricots, dried, sliced
200g Almonds, slivered
200g Hazelnuts, whole
300g Apple Juice

to spread on top

200g Butter, liquid
200g Sugar

Topping

75g NEUSCHNEE

processing

Prepare the starter dough. Mixing time: 2 min. on slow and 3 min. on fast.


Make a dough out of the remaining ingredients (including the starter dough) but except the Fruit Mix, the butter spread and the Topping.

Mixing time: 3 minutes on slow + 8 minutes on fast
(spiral mixer)

At the end of the mixing time, mix the fruit carefully into the dough (approx. 1 minute on slow).

 

Dough temperature: approx. 25°C
Dough resting time: approx. 10 minutes


After resting, scale the dough into 500 g pieces, mould them, work them of as for stollen and leave to prove.

 

Proving time: approx. 40 minutes


After proving bake without steam.

Baking temperature: 170°C
Baking time: approx. 45 minutes


Directly after baking brush the stollen with liquid butter and roll the surface in sugar. After complete cooling dust with Komplet Neuschnee.