Christmas Stollen Cottage Cheese Recipe
Cooking Christmas stollen in our family has become a good tradition. For many years now, Stollen has occupied a place of honor on our Christmas family table. Having prepared a lot of different options - I was on it. I added almond flour and homemade marzipan to the dough.
Servings 10
Cook Time 180 minutes
Ingredients
The dough:
- 530 gram Flour wheat / Flour
- 80 gram Almond flour
- 235 gram Butter
- 200 gram Sugar
- 50 gram Brown sugar
- 2 pieces Chicken eggs
- 320 gram Cottage cheese
- 200 gram Almond
- 250 gram Raisins
- 100 gram Dried fruits
- 50 gram Cherries
- 2 tablespoons Vanilla syrup
- 10 gram Baking powder
- 2 gram Salt
- 100 gram Liqueur for soaking candied fruits
Marzipan:
- 150 gram Sugar powder
- 1 tablespoon Egg white
- 3 drops Flavor Bitter Almond flavor for marzipan
- 260 gram Almond
Fur coat for stollen:
- 200 gram Powdered sugar
- 200 gram Butter
Instructions
- Prepare almonds and candied fruits in advance. Put the almonds in boiling water, hold for a couple of minutes and peel them. Fry the almonds in the oven and chop them coarsely. Pour raisins and dried cherries 5-6 days before cooking with a mixture of cognac and liqueur (I have orange liqueur cointreau). I did not soak orange candied fruits, they are stored in a spicy syrup of vanilla and liqueur.
- We will also prepare marzipan in advance. Peel the almonds and let them dry. To make marzipan, you do not need to fry almonds.
- In the bowl of a blender, grind 160 gr. almonds into fine crumbs and add 150 gr. powdered sugar.
- Add one protein from a large chicken egg and the flavor of bitter almonds.
- Mix everything well and form three sausages. Wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in the refrigerator. Such marzipan can be stored for 2-3 weeks.
- Prepare the dough for the pie. mix sugar and butter at room temperature until fluffy. Add one egg at a time and mix everything well with a mixer.
- Add the cottage cheese, rubbed through a sieve. Vanilla and nutmeg to taste.
- Add flour. Mix everything well.
- Add candied fruits and chopped almonds.
- And at the very end, add the almond flour. Mix everything together.
- Divide the finished dough into three parts. Add marzipan to each stollen.
- Let's form three stollens. Put them to bake at a temperature of 170 gr. for about 40 minutes.
- Ready, hot stollen immediately lubricate well with butter.
- Also don't forget to sprinkle it liberally with powdered sugar. I wrap the finished stollen, rolled in powdered sugar, in baking paper, then in foil and a kitchen towel. I put it in a cool place. two to three weeks are enough to prepare a curd stollen. during this time, it will be infused and will be fragrant and delicious.
- Merry Christmas!