This month we were supposed to bake a Stollen for the Daring Bakers Challenge. Everything started well, only I ended up with a very wet dough so I added flour, a bit more flour and again a bit much more flour... Finally I think I added about 300 g additional flour.

Of course this change had an impact on the final result.

Look at this slice of big, burnt, dry and compact MONSTER Stollen!

Now I'm sitting on a Stollen of 2 kilograms, that event doesn't taste like Stollen, more like Pain d'Epice. ;-)

So next year I will stick again at Baker Süpke's foolproof Christstollen recipe and hope (or better pray?) that I will be more successful with the 2011 Daring Baker Challenges.

Nevertheless I wish you all a Merry Festive Season and a Happy New Year! :-)

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For the recipe please head over to the Daring Kitchen Headquarter. There you will also find all the Stollen my fellow Daring Bakers made.

The 2010 December Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie's Baking. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make Stollen. She adapted a friend's family recipe and combined it with information from friends, techniques from Peter Reinhart's book and Martha Stewart’s demonstration.

More entries and recipes in English.

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