The Stollen is a type of German Christmas cake which is a kind of sweet bread, enriched with a various dried fruits and nuts and covered with icing sugar.
German
Families and bakeries alike treasured the own secret recipes for the Stollen,
and all claimed to have a secret ingredient, details of which would be handed
down through the generations.
The
shape of the Stollen is like a loaf of bread and is supposed to symbolize the
baby Jesus Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
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