Cologne Poppy Seed Stollen




Rating: 3.3333 / 5.00 (18 Votes)


Total time: 5 min

Servings: 1.0 (servings)

Dough:














Filling:










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Glaze:






For sprinkling:





Instructions:

For the dough, sift the flour into a suitable bowl, make an indentation in the center and crumble the yeast into it. Stir the yeast with the sugar and a little milk, dust with flour. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.

Add the rest of the milk, the eggs and the sugar to the yeast dough form, put the butter in flakes on the edge of the flour. Prepare into a smooth yeast dough that comes off the bottom of the bowl. Let rise for another 15 minutes.

For the poppy seed filling, bring 3/8 l milk with the poppy seeds to a boil in a small saucepan while stirring. Allow to swell for 10 min. at the lowest temperature. Stir the pudding powder into the remaining milk. Stir into the poppy seed mixture form. Fold in the butter, the egg yolks as well as the sugar, let the mixture cool down.

Add the almond kernels, lemon zest and salt to the dough. On the lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle 1 cm thick. Spread the poppy seed filling on the dough. Leave a 2 cm wide border free. Roll up the dough from both long sides to the center.

Place the stollen on a baking tray lined with baking parchment and leave to rise for a further 20 minutes with the lid closed. Preheat the oven to 200 °C (gas mark 3). Bake the Stollen in the hot oven on the middle rack for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack for a few minutes.

For the glaze, mix the powdered sugar with the juice of one lemon to a d

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