{"id":3221,"date":"2011-12-18T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:34:59","slug":"der-weihnachtsstollen-%e2%80%93-german-christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/der-weihnachtsstollen-%e2%80%93-german-christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Weihnachtsstollen \u2013 German Christmas cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of my Advent calendar on Facebook where I publish a post every day that shows a particular German Christmas candy or decoration. I realized that I have much more to say about the \u201cStollen\u201d than just a few words, thus, I decided to dedicate myself to this topic.<\/p>\n

The \u201cStollen\u201d is a German Christmas cake. Hence, it is also called \u201cWeihnachtsstollen\u201d (Christmas stolen\/cake) or simply \u201cChriststollen\u201d. Some describe the \u201cStollen\u201d as a kind of sweet German bread. But I don\u2019t agree with this definition because for me a bread is something that I can slice and on which I can spread butter, soft cheese or put a slice of cheese or cold meat on it and the like. I would neither do this with a slice of \u201cStollen\u201d because it is first of all, a very sweet pastry and secondly it is of a fairly crumbly consistency, hence, it is virtually impossible to spread anything on it. Moreover, I find the definition of \u2018sweet German bread\u2019 misleading since you could mistake a \u201cStollen\u201d for Rosinenbrot<\/em><\/strong> (raisin bread)<\/a>, which are indeed two different baked goods.<\/p>\n

All \u201cStollen\u201d are not created equal, that is, there are different sorts of \u201cStollen\u201d. The one you see in the picture above is a so-called Marzipanstollen<\/em><\/strong> (marzipan stollen cake), which means that it additionally contains a marzipan filling. You can see this filling in the two slices. That are the two spots that look so unbaked and\/or raw. Germans use the term Marzipanstollen<\/em> when they would like to make clear that they do not refer to a Christstollen<\/em> that does not contain this marzipan filling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another sort of \u201cStollen\u201d is the Mohnstollen<\/em><\/strong> (poppy seed stollen)<\/a>. In comparison to the pure \u201cStollen\u201d and the \u201cMarzipanstollen\u201d it does not contain any raisins but only loads of poppy seeds.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, I think it is a matter of taste whether you would like \u201cStollen\u201d. For example, when I was a child I could not understand why all adults around me got so crazy when they were looking forward to have a slice of \u201cStollen\u201d because I found it rather disgusting, probably primarily because of the raisins. But meanwhile I really like this cake and I already have had some sliced this year.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever tried \u201cStollen\u201d and did you like it or would you go for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

This post is part of my Advent calendar on Facebook where I publish a post every day that shows a particular German Christmas candy or decoration. I realized that I have much more to say about the \u201cStollen\u201d than just a few words, thus, I decided to dedicate myself to this topic. The \u201cStollen\u201d is…<\/p>\n

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