Stollen spirals

Stollen spirals

Bake a batch of these sweet German buns over Christmas and enjoy at breakfast or teatime... or both

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Makes 11-12 buns

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 45 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

plus 1hr 30 mins-2hrs rising
Freezable

Freeze before decorating

Method

  1. Stir together the zest and juice, Cointreau, cranberries and mixed fruit in a small bowl and leave to soak.
  2. Meanwhile, mix the flour, yeast, caster sugar and nutmeg in a large bowl. Add ½ tsp salt and rub in the butter. Beat the egg with the warm milk, then pour onto the flour mix. Stir with a round-bladed knife, then use your hands to bring the mixture together as a soft dough.
  3. Tip onto a work surface and knead for a couple of mins, adding a little flour only if you need to stop it sticking. Oil the bowl, return the dough and cover with cling film. Leave to rise for 45 mins-1 hr in a warm place until doubled in size.
  4. Line and butter a large roasting tin with baking parchment. Roll the risen dough out firmly to a long strip about 70 x 18cm. Add the pistachios to the soaked fruit, then scatter the mix along the dough. Roll the marzipan into a sausage the same length as the longest side of the dough, then place it down the centre of the dough and roll up together firmly, a bit like making a sausage roll. Trim the ends, then cut the rest into even lengths and arrange, cut side up, in the tin. Cover with cling film and leave to rise for 45 mins-1 hr until really well risen.
  5. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Bake for 15-20 mins until golden. Will freeze for up to 6 weeks. Brush with melted butter and dredge with icing sugar, or mix a little water into the icing sugar, drizzle over the buns and scatter over the nuts. Eat within 2 days.

PER SERVING

467 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 80g, fat 13 g, saturated fat 5g, fibre 3g, sugar 41g, salt 0.4 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2010.

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  • Binder photo Cassandra Amy Rose

    16 November 2010

    Cassandra Amy Rose commented on this recipe

    This looks so yummy, I'm defiantly gonna try this soon. Could I leave out/replace the Cointreau and use walnuts instead of pistachios?

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  • Binder photo Caroline

    21 November 2010

    Caroline commented on this recipe

    Just made these - the house still smells of them. They are delicious! I did a little fiddling with the recipe - I used slightly more dried fruit and used fresh yeast instead of dried. I also added some all spice to the dough with the nutmeg. They were really easy to make, and are as light as a feather. One thing - next time I make these, I will roll the marzipan out to a bit smaller than the size of the pastry (so 10 x 60 cm). Maybe I didn't read the instructions right, but I was left with a strip of marzipan on one side of the buns. Also, I used half the quantity of marzipan. Final advices - make double - I got 18 buns out of this but they will go quickly ;-). And when rolling the mixture, roll tightly or else all the filling falls out, and tight rolling makes them easier to manipulate.

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  • Binder photo andreiahain

    23 November 2010

    andreiahain commented on this recipe

    Just made them!! They are gorgeous, easy and good dogh.. Next time I would miss the marzipan. I had some left over and made with chocolate for my two little monster.. they loved it.

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  • Binder photo sapphire11

    01 December 2010

    sapphire11 commented on this recipe

    How much fresh yeast did you use, Im not very good at conversions.

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  • Binder photo Noodles

    04 December 2010

    Noodles rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    My husband made these this afternoon, and they are definitely the best cakes he has ever made. He exchanged the Cointreau for 2 tbsp of Pimms and rolled out the marzipan instead of making it into a sausage. He omitted the nuts and cranberries, but scattered the soaked mixed fruit, so that each spiral had a little bit of everything.

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  • Binder photo mamma smith

    09 December 2010

    mamma smith rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    These are delicious, well worth making. I made exactly as recipe, but nexty time will roll the marzipan into a strip rather than a sausage shape, but that just personal preference. The dough is beautiful. Has also frozen very well.

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  • Binder photo Emma

    13 December 2010

    Emma commented on this recipe

    These look delicious. I am hoping to do them or something else stollen-esque for Christmas hampers. Can anyone tell me how long it stays fresh for once baked? Thank you.

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  • Binder photo Jane

    11 November 2011

    Jane rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Scrummy! Next time I'm going to use half the amount of marzipan though.

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  • Binder photo CJFlossy

    29 December 2011

    CJFlossy commented on this recipe

    I agree with the previous comments of adding more fruit and the issue with the big wodge of marzipan in the middle...i will make these again and add more fruit and roll out the marzipan to lay it flat and then roll. I soaked the fruit in brandy! Found the mixture to be wet and was worried about the mixture cooking-but neednt to have worried! my friend said it was one of the tastiest stollen she ever had!

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    29 December 2011

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  • Binder photo Aelynn

    31 December 2011

    Aelynn rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very good dough and looks very professional! Separated dough/filling in two and baked it in two batches so it wouldn't have time to get stale (not that it lasted long enough to!). The big log of marzipan in the middle wasn't very nice, so I tried cubing it and scattering it around with the fruit for the second batch. Much better!

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Makes 11-12 buns

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 45 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

plus 1hr 30 mins-2hrs rising
Freezable

Freeze before decorating

Ingredients

  • zest 1 orange , plus juice ½
  • 4 tbsp Cointreau
  • 85g dried cranberries
  • 85g mixed dried fruits
  • 550g strong white bread flour , plus extra for kneading
  • 2 x 7g sachets easy-bake dried yeast
  • 85g golden caster sugar
  • good grating of nutmeg
  • 85g butter , plus extra for the tin
  • 1 large egg
  • 250ml warm milk
  • sunflower oil , for the bowl
  • 25g pistachios , chopped
  • 300g golden marzipan

TO DECORATE

  • melted butter and icing sugar, or icing sugar mixed with a little water, plus chopped pistachios, if you like
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PER SERVING

467 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 80g, fat 13 g, saturated fat 5g, fibre 3g, sugar 41g, salt 0.4 g

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