Merry Christmas! Stollen is not fruitcake! There are a few key differences. First, stollen is made with yeast while most fruitcakes are made from unyeasted cake batter. You could even make a ...

Here, it was referred to as “a cake for the fasting ... claim the first-ever stollen was made in 1329 when the Bishop of Nauruburg proposed a contest during Christmas time, in which bakers ...

The stollen from Dinkel’s Bakery in Lakeview graced holiday tables for nearly a century. Each year, it sat amid our Christmas cookies ... on the bottom of carrot cake cupcakes as people shop ...

This Christmas, every baker in town seems to be making stollen, the German ‘bread’ that’s more like a cake, baked as it is with dried fruits, candied citrus peels, nuts and spices — and a ...

it will last well way beyond Christmas Day. Modern variations vary considerably. You can now get stollen bites and stollen loaves as well as traditional stollen cake from supermarkets. Tesco has ...