Weihnachts Stollen

Ingredients

• 175 g butter, softened
• 250 g Quark
• 2 eggs
• 200 g sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 tsp. rum
• 1 tsp. Lemon Essence (Lemonessenc)
• 1 tsp. Almond Essence (Bittermandel)
• 500 g flour
• 1 tbsp. baking Powder
• 125 g ground almonds
• 1/2 tsp. mace
• 1/2 tsp. cardamom
• 125 g raisins
• 125 g currants
• Extra butter for basting
• Powdered sugar

Directions

1. Stir together the butter, quark, and eggs.
2. Mix in the sugar, then add the vanilla and rum, and lemon and almond essences.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, almonds, mace, and cardamom.
4. In a third bowl, combine the raisins and currants.
5. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, then mix in the fruit.
6. Form into loaf and bake, for 75 minutes at 325 °F, on a greased and waxpaper-covered Cookie sheet (or use a silpat liner).
7. Directly after taking the loaf out of the oven baste generously with butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Notes

I just edited this to reorganize the ingredients and changed some of the directions to make them easier for me to follow. I also doubled the amount of rum, almond, and lemon, because I did that accidentally this year and it turned out really nicely. :) If you want to see the old version, click on the history link above the page title to see the list of past revisions. Sara (talk) 21:17, 20 December 2013 (PST)