Make your own treats for Christmas that not only make great gifts but taste delicious too!
serves:12
preparation time:1 hour 35 minutes (leave dough in warm place for 1 hour)
cooking time:25 minutes
total time:2 hours
Ingredients:
· 325g white bread flour
· 7g sachet yeast
· 45g golden caster sugar
· 1 medium egg, lightly beaten
· 45g butter, melted
· 100ml warm milk
· 250g soft dried apricots, chopped
· 4 tbsp. orange liqueur
· 100g pistachios
· 60g dried cranberries
· 100g white chocolate, chopped
· 2 tsp. icing sugar, to dust
Preparation:
1. Put the flour, yeast and sugar into a bowl. Add the egg, melted butter and milk.Knead together on a lightly floured surface by hand for 10 minutes or with a dough hook in an electric mixer for 5 minutes, until smooth and elastic. Put into a greased bowl, cover with cling film and leave in a warm place for about 1 hour until doubled in size.
2. Put apricots into a pan with the orange liqueur. Warm through for 2 minutes, and then put into a bowl to cool. Whizz the pistachios in a blender until finely ground. Add the cranberries, white chocolate, apricots and liqueur. Whizz again to combine.
3. Turn out the mixture on to a sheet of baking parchment and shape into a log about 25cm long. Pop in the freezer for 5-10 minutes, to firm up.
4. Roll outthe bread dough on a lightly floured surface to 28x18cm. Place the apricot and pistachio log on top, slightly to the left of the centre.
5. Brushthe left-hand edge with water. Fold the right-hand side of dough over the apricot filling and press edge down firmly, to seal. Cover loosely with cling film and leave in a warm place to rise for 30 minutes. Set the oven Gas Mark 5 or 190°C.
6. Removethe cling film, and then bake the stöllen for 25 minutes until risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack. Dust with icing sugar. Slice to serve.
OUR TIP: To give it as a gift, wrap brown paper round the stöllen, put it on a tea towel and a board, wrap loosely in cellophane, and finish with some ribbon, a decoration and a tag.
treat | finomság, nyalánkság |
sachet | tasak |
yeast | élesztő |
caster sugar | kristálycukor |
lightly beaten | enyhén felvert |
melted | olvasztott |
dried apricots | aszalt sárgabarack |
chopped | apróra vágott |
dried cranberries | aszalt vörösáfonya |
icing sugar | porcukor |
to dust | megszórni |
to knead | dagasztani, gyúrni |
lightly floured surface | enyhén belisztezett felület |
dough hook | dagasztó szár |
electric mixer | konyhai robotgép |
smooth | sima, csomómentes |
elastic | ruganyos |
greased | kizsírozott |
to cover with | befedni valamivel |
cling film | folpack |
doubled in size | megkétszereződött méret |
pan | tepsi |
to warm through | átmelegíteni, átmelegedni |
to whizz | megpörgetni |
blender | turmixgép, daráló |
finely ground | finomra őrölt |
to combine | vegyíteni, egyesíteni |
to pop in | bedobni |
to firm up | megszilárdulni |
to roll out | kinyújtani (tésztát) |
dough | nyers (sütemény) tészta |
slightly | enyhén |
to brush | megkenni, bekenni (ecsettel) |
edge | széle valaminek |
to fold | hajtani, hajtogatni |
firmly | szilárdan |
to seal | lezár |
loosely | lazán |
to rise | megkel (tészta) |
to remove | eltávolítani |
risen | megkelt (tészta) |
wire rack | sütőrács |
to slice | felszeletelni |
to wrap | becsomagolni |
tea towel | konyharuha |
ribbon | szalag |
tag | címke |