Stollen

I took up a special X'mas baking class with Phoon Huat, thanks to the encouragement of Pauline, whom I met at Wilton Course 2 and 3 (and hopefully, Course 4 coming up!).  We started off baking a Stollen.

Stollen - defined by Wikipedia as : A Stollen is a loaf shaped fruitcake, powdered with icing sugar on the outside. The cake is usually made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts and spices. Stollen is a traditional German cake, usually eaten during the Christmas season, when called Weihnachtsstollen or Christstollen. A similar cake from the Dutch cuisine is called a Kerststol in Dutch while in Italian cuisine the Panettone also shows a likeness.

Anyway, here are the pictures.

Here we are, the dough with all the dried fruits. After proofing, this dough was sent to the oven.

And, the outcome is as below.

Melted butter was generously splashed on the stollen, right after it came out from the oven.  After that, the stollen is generously sprinkled with icing powder.

 

Very nice! Its Pauline's and mine. :-)

Our tired and satisfied look! The class started at 7pm and at this stage, it was 11pm.