Christmas Stollen
(fruit bread/fruit cake)
Servings 0
Ingredients
- Chop dried apricot raisin, and dried cranberries, enough to fill a one-cup size measurement cup - you can use any dry fruits you like
- 1/3 c chopped walnut toasted (preheat oven 350 F, toast walnut for 5-10 mins, cool completely) - you can use slivered almonds if you like almond better, or a mix is fine
- 2 1/4 c flour
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 - 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- crushed of 3 pods of green cardamom
- 1/2 c margarine/butter if using unsalted butter, add a pinch of salt to the mixture
- 1 c cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp lemon oil
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, BP, cinnamon powder and cardamom, then cut in butter into uneven crumbs, stir in mixed fruits
- In another bowl, beat cottage cheese, egg, vanilla and lemon, until smooth
- Mix cottage mixture with flour mixture, knead
- Divide into two dough and shape into a log, place logs on baking sheet
- Bake for 40 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean
- Transfer to cooling rack and brush top with 6 tbsp butter, melted
- Then sprinkle generously with icing sugar
- Let stollen cool to room temperature on the cooling rack, then brush again with more melted butter and cover generously with icing sugar
- Wrap tightly with cling wrap and decorate with ribbon.