Celebration Stöllen

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