German Christmas Stollen (Vegan Fruit Bread)

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 ¾ cup all-purpose flour

  or light spelt flour
• ½ cup almond flour

  or other ground nuts
• 1 tbsp fresh yeast

  or 2 tsp dry yeast (7 g)
• ⅓ cup soy milk

  or other plant milk
• ⅓ cup raw cane sugar

  or other sugar
• ¼ cup applesauce

  or soy quark
• 5 oz vegan butter

  soft
• pinch of salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp stollen spice mix

  made from a pinch each of cardamom, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla (*see notes)
• 1-2 tsp bitter almond extract

  optional
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup candied orange peel
• 1 cup candied lemon peel
• ¼ cup rum

  or orange juice
• 2-3 tbsp vegan butter

  melted
• powdered sugar

Instructions

• 1 Put the raisins, candied orange peel and candied lemon peel in a bowl. Pour the
  rum over them and mix everything well. Then let soak covered overnight.
• 2 Warm the soy milk to lukewarm (approx. 95 °F, 35 °C). Add one tbsp of the sugar,
  crumble in the yeast and mix until the yeast has dissolved.
• 3 Put the flour in a bowl and form a well in the middle. Pour the yeast mixture
  into the well and cover with flour from the edges. Set aside for 15-20 minutes.
• 4 Then add almond flour, remaining sugar, salt, cinnamon, stollen spice mix,
  applesauce and vegan butter and knead for 5-8 minutes with the dough hook of a
  stand mixer (or with your hands). Lastly, add the soaked dried fruit mixture and
  optional bitter almond extract and mix briefly on a slow speed until
  incorporated.
• 5 Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for 1 hour. (Tip: If you want to
  bake the Stollen the next day, you can place the bowl in the refrigerator
  overnight afterward. The next day, take out the bowl 20 minutes before shaping
  the stollen).
• 6 Shape the dough into a Stollen (as shown in the recipe video or in the
  step-by-step pictures above). Then place on a baking sheet lined with parchment
  paper and let rise, covered, for another 30 minutes.
• 7 Preheat the oven to 392 °F (200 °C). Place the stollen in the hot oven and bake
  for 10 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 320 °F (160 °C) and bake for another
  approx. 45 minutes (if it gets too dark during baking, cover loosely with
  parchment paper).
• 8 Melt the vegan butter and brush the baked Stollen with it while it is still hot.
  Allow to cool completely, then dust with powdered sugar.
• 9 Enjoy!

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