theobroma christmas stollen. stollen is a traditional christmas bread. usually hard to find in good quality in the states, and hard to avoid in germany. unlike fruitcake, its drier, yeasty, and not overwhelmingly sweet. to make one properly takes a lot of time and energy, and just the right ingredients, so sometimes the store-bought ones are more reliable.
at the beginning of the month, they showed up at theobroma, looking fairly legit. to be seasonal (and have a little taste of christmas) i picked up a few small ones and gave them away, saving one to take to germany, to the fussiest stollen critic i know. the verdict was 'not bad'. kind of overly sweet, and the marzipan inside was double the size that it needed to be, but overall, A for effort. for that, and the novelty of hausgemacht stollen in india, it was a hit.
thank you theobroma, for trying.
2 comments:
that looks so yummy - i love the idea of it being filled with marzapan - never heard of such a thing. but yeah i can see how too much marzipan filling could be a bad thing
i agree that marzipan is delicious in small doses, and am still sticking to the high standard of quality over quantity, but sort of just happy to have something that tastes even remotely close. but yeah, lets make this from scratch next year.
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