Christmas Bread: Stollen

Taste: Sweet; Process: Baking; Time: Several hours; Difficulty: Simple.

Steps for making Christmas Bread: Stollen

Dough ingredients: High-gluten flour 250g, fine sugar 40g, salt 1/2 tsp, dry yeast 3g, milk powder 10g, cinnamon powder 1 tsp, brandy 1 tbsp, water 125g, butter 65g

Fruit ingredients: Raisins 65g, sunflower seeds 25g, watermelon seeds 25g, pumpkin seeds 25g, small almonds 5g, pine nuts 5g, candied orange peel 50g, brandy 150g

Soak the raisins in brandy for more than 5 hours in advance

Drain the water and set aside

Pour all the dough ingredients except butter into the bread machine

Mix into a dough and add butter

Continue to mix until the dough can be stretched into a thin film

Take out the dough and add all the fruit ingredients

Knead into an even dough

Put it in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and let it ferment for the first time

The dough should double in size

Deflate the dough, divide it into 2 equal parts, roll them into balls, and let them relax for about 15 minutes

Roll them into an oval shape that is 20cm long and 15cm wide

Fold them in half

Press them firmly with a rolling pin

Put them in a baking pan and let them ferment for about 60 minutes until the dough has risen

Brush the surface with egg liquid

Put them in the oven, middle layer, upper heat 180 degrees, lower heat 160 degrees, and bake for about 25 minutes

The surface should be golden brown when it comes out of the oven

Prepare the decoration: Melted butter 20g, powdered sugar appropriate amount

Brush the melted butter evenly on the bread and let it cool

Sprinkle with powdered sugar after cooling

Cut into pieces and serve