As a preview of our December gourmet gift ideas series, today we made you the Mini Stollen, or Dresden Cake. We soaked the candied fruit kneaded into the scones in rum flavouring diluted with squeezed orange juice. The result is perfect.

A mini stollen is a small, traditional German Christmas cake, usually filled with fruit, nuts and spices. Here’s a recipe on how to make it:

Ingredients:

250 g fine flour

60 g icing sugar

20 ml MaxAroma Vanilla Flavour

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom

1/2 teaspoon salt

100 g cold butter, cubed

50 g almonds, roughly chopped

50 g raisins

50 g candied peaches

50 g candied orange peel

2 oranges

30 ml MaxAroma Kingston Rum Aroma

1 egg

50 ml milk

25 g yeast

50 g soft butter for spreading

icing sugar for decoration

Preparation:

First squeeze the juice from the orange and mix with MaxAroma Kingston Rum flavouring, then add the raisins and candied fruit.

Mix the fine flour, icing sugar, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and salt in a bowl. Work the cold butter into the flour mixture until you have a crumbly dough consistency. Heat the milk in a small saucepan, then dissolve the yeast in it and leave to stand for a few minutes until foamy. Mix the eggs with the MaxAroma Vanilla Flavouring and the lactic yeast and pour into the flour mixture. Add the almonds, soaked raisins and candied fruit. Knead the dough into a smooth, elastic dough.

Shape the dough into small dumplings, then flatten and fold in the edges, folding one half of the dough over the other side, leaving about a quarter of the dough free to make small stollen shapes. Place the mini stollen on a baking tray lined with baking paper and leave to rest for 30-40 minutes until slightly risen. Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake the mini stollen for about 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

Once removed from the oven, brush them with soft butter while still hot and leave them to cool completely. Decorate the mini stollen with icing sugar.

Here’s a fabulous recipe for mini stollen, perfect as a festive treat or as a gift! Enjoy your meal and have a wonderful holiday season!