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| Easy-peasy Almost No Sugar Stollen 'Big thumbs up...it was like...Yes!' Taster |
This recipe was developed to solve those problems. The 67goingon50 stollen is a light buttery loaf filled with boozy fruit. There's no marzipan, only a tiny bit of added sugar (if you want it) plus whatever ends up as topping: melted white chocolate, orange & icing sugar drizzles or a light dusting of icing sugar.
The stollen is extremely easy to make but needs a bit of planning. The fruit is soaked overnight to soften and intensify flavours. To save time, the dry ingredients could also be measured out the night before and covered. The butter could be cut into small dice and refrigerated.
Try this healthier stollen - you may not go back to the original.
Cost: £3'ish
Feeds: about 12-15 slices
Ingred:
250gr/8oz mixed dried fruit, incl whole maraschino cherries, big chunks of dried mango or apricots and raisons or currents
1/4 cup/60 ml Armangac or equiv liqueur/orange juice/tea
240 gm/8.5 oz plain flour (common wheat or spelt)
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2/3 tsp nutmeg
2/3 tsp cloves
2 tablespoons sugar (opt)
grated zest of 2 oranges (use the fruit in Orange & Berry Plate)
min 2- max 3 oz/ 56-85 gm cold butter, in small dice
190 ml cold buttermilk, stirred from bottom to top
1 small egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
garnish: melted white chocolate, orange juice (recipe in tips below) or powdered sugar
Method:
The night before:
- Rinse dried fruit in boiling water to remove preservatives; drain; put in a new wet j- cloth and squeeze lightly to get rid of some of the moisture or dry well with paper towels
- Put the fruit in a bowl & pour over alcohol; cover and leave at room temp overnight.
- Put dry ingred in a large bowl; mix in spices & orange zest
- Rub in or coarsely process cubed butter until the butter is the size of peas
- Pre-heat oven to 190c/170fan/375F/gas5
- Drain & dry fruit, saving liquid
- Stir into flour mixturewith a fork for even distribution; this may take a few minutes
- Measure liquid from fruit; whatever you have, replace an equivalent amount of buttermilk (ie. if you have 2 tablespoons fruit liquid, remove 2 tbsp buttermilk and replace it with the fruit liquid)
- Mix buttermilk, egg & vanilla; make a well in flour-fruit mix; pour in liquid
- Mix with a spatula to incorporate all the flour then stir again with a fork to ensure fruit is evenly distributed. Rest 5-10 mins.
- Tip onto a lightly floured board, bring together and push into a stollen shape. (it might flatten out while cooking but the taste is still terrific)
- Using two fish slices, transfer onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper
- Bake 45-50 mins; at 35 mins, turn stollen over so underside is exposed and return to oven
- The stollen is done when it sounds hollow when the bottom is tapped
- Cool on a wire rack; drizzle with melted white baking chocolate* or an orange glaze (recipe in tips) or dust lightly with icing sugar
Tip:
- Instead of shaping the dough, dollop it into a large greased loaf tin, bottom lined with greaseproof paper
- Orange glaze: Mix 1 tbsp orange juice with 2-3 tbsp sifted icing sugar until of drizzling consistency
Comments:
'Four people tried this and they all gave a big - and I mean Big - thumbs up. It could have been bland but there are so many big chunks of juicy fruit, it was like...Yes!' Laundrette Manageress
'Four people tried this and they all gave a big - and I mean Big - thumbs up. It could have been bland but there are so many big chunks of juicy fruit, it was like...Yes!' Laundrette Manageress
*available at major supermarkets; do not use white chocolate bars
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This recipe has been developed by B Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.
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