Is Stollen very hard to make? Anyone got a good (easy) recipe?

[2pt4WiseMen]

Thank you

I've never made it successfully so will be watching this thread - have already bought one though!

It's a bread rather than a cake, so it looks a bit hard. There was a recipe in the guardian on the weekend, I'll see if I can find it for you.

Here. I'm not used to doing breads, so I am a bit nervous at the idea, tbh. Let us know how it goes.

My friend makes a very, very good version. Unfortunately she is yet to hand over the recipe despite numerous requests

If you're up for cheating, Lidl do a fabulous one. Buy it, put it on a nice cake stand, dust it with icing sugar a la nigella and nobody will ever know!

wish I'd done that instead of making the 5 bloody Christmas cakes that I now have to ice despite being poorly with this fecking flu bug!!!!

I'm going to try that one - thanks NQC!

I cant really cheat this time.. I'm doing a few homemade bits to take to MIL's for Christmas.
She's said not to bring anything so its the effort that I'm putting into doin a few bits for her that she'll appreciate hopefully rather than the actual 'stuff'!

I'm sure she will, that sounds lovely.

Got my cakes iced!! Praise the Lord

Stollen ring (last yrs Good Housekeeping)

Preheat oven to Gas 7/220c/200c(fan)

Soak 2oz dried cranberries, 2oz raisins and 1oz mixed peel in 1 tblsp brandy.

Roll out a pack of bought puff pastry, scatter with fruit and 2oz pistachio nuts, roll 8oz marzipan into a log and place down the middle then roll up to form a log.

Cut into 12 slices and arrange them overlapping slightly in circle on baking tray.

Bake for 15-20 mins, then glaze with mixture of 4tblsp warmed apricot jam and 1 tblsp brandy.