A delicious Christmas bread filled with cranberries, raisins and currants. And a nice strip of almond stuffing. The bread is wonderfully seasoned and slightly sweet. Spread with butter a delicacy!
If you have an allergy, it is difficult to eat a delicious Christmas bread. It contains nuts, or gluten, or traces of peanut or lactose. Really not handy and that is why I have not eaten Christmas bread for years. Until I came across this recipe from Levine: a home-made Christmas stollen with almond paste. Look that opens the way for my person.
So in good spirits, I started working on the recipe for the Christmas bread. In the original recipe, the dough was covered with candied almonds, almonds and orange shavings, and I decided not to use them. The citron and orange shavings simply because I often find them rather dominant and therefore not really tasty. I added cranberries instead and that turned out to be a delicious choice.
And I made the almond stuffing myself. That is just a little better for the allergy and the chance of a reaction. It turned out to be a good choice and so I have just eaten my first slice of Christmas bread in years.
Recipe Christmas bread with almond stuffing
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📖 Recipe
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Equipment
- Food processor with knife
- Refrigerator
- Mixer with dough hooks or a kitchen machine with dough hooks
- Tea towel, slightly moist
- plastic foil
- Parchment paper
- Baking tray
- A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature with 30 °F / 20 °C
Ingredients
almond stuffing
- 125 grams almonds
- 125 grams sugar
- 1 egg, size L
Filling
- 75 grams currants
- 125 grams raisins
- 50 grams cranberries , dried
Dough
- 3 teaspoons yeast , dry
- 160 ml milk , lukewarm
- 1 egg , size L, beaten
- 65 grams sugar
- 7 grams salt
- 75 grams butter, room temperature
- 370 grams flour
- ¾ teaspoon gingerbread spices
- 2 tablespoons butter, brushing after baking
Instructions
Almond stuffing
- Slice the almonds with the sugar in the kitchen machine with knife and stir in the egg.
- Wrap the stuffing in plastic foil and let it rest in the refrigerator.
Filling
- Put the filling in a bowl and pour over hot water. Let stand for 10 minutes and let the fruits drain well afterwards.
- Pat them dry.
Dough
- Mix the flour, butter, sugar, egg, milk, yeast and gingerbread spices in a bowl and mix for 5 minutes.
- Then add the salt and knead for another 10 minutes until you have a smooth dough.
- Squeeze the dough well and divide half of the filling over the dough.
- Knead well and flatten the dough and spread the rest of the filling over the dough.
- Knead again until the filling is well absorbed in the dough.
- Grease a bowl with some oil and put the dough in it.
- Put a damp tea towel on top and cover that with plastic foil.
- Let the dough rise for about 1 hour and 30 minutes in a warm place.
- Place baking paper on a baking sheet.
- Roll the dough out to an oval.
- Take the almond paste and make a roll that falls within the edges of the dough.
- Place it in the middle of the dough and fold the dough in half so it covers the filling.
- Press the edge tightly.
- Place on the baking paper and place a damp tea towel on it and cover it with plastic foil.
- Let rise for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- After 1 hour and fifteen minutes, pre-heat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
- Bake the bread for 10 minutes and then lower the temperature to 150 degrees Celsius.
- Bake for another 40 minutes.
- Brush the stollen when it comes out of the oven with the butter.
- Allow to cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired
Nutrition
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Gloria says
This is my kind of recipe. I love homemade bread. I would love some of this toasted with my coffee right now.
Andréa says
Thank you! I can imagine that! Warm home baked bread with a smear of butter. Yummie!
Kayla DiMaggio says
This Christmas bread is amazing! I love the almond flavor in the stuffing as well!
Angela says
This bread is so delicious! The almond stuffing with the fruit is a great combination. My family loved it.
Natalie says
I'm definitely going to bake this for Christmas. Looks absolutely delicious. My family will love this, I'm sure. Thanks for the recipe!
Lindsay Howerton-Hastings says
Almond filling is my FAVORITE holiday flavor. Can't wait to make this again and again!
Andréa says
Thank you Angela! Enjoy it with your family!
Andréa says
Thanks Natalie, I wish you great holidays and lots of baking fun!
Andréa says
Thank you Lindsay! You'll love it, I'm sure!