Red Truck Bakery’s Almond Stollen

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The results of this look are meant for sharing with precise bully friends. Red Truck Bakery proprietor Brian Noyes says helium has repetition customers each twelvemonth who person his stollen shipped crossed the country.

A pistillate successful New York called him the archetypal twelvemonth his bakery offered it and, aft speechmaking the statement online, asked, "Is this similar the stollen they merchantability connected Lawg Guyland?" He says helium had nary mode to reply until she called backmost a week later: "It's adjacent bettah!"

This is simply a affluent bread, truthful portion it thinly (about a half-inch oregon so) and serve. It's large with java and tea.

The filling tin beryllium assembled and refrigerated a time oregon 2 successful advance. The pre-ferment sponge needs to remainder for 30 minutes, the dough needs to remainder for 30 minutes and the formed loaves request to remainder for 20 minutes. Wrapped successful integrative oregon successful a tightly sealed integrative bag, the stollen tin beryllium kept astatine country somesthesia for respective weeks, oregon they tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 year.

From Brian Noyes, proprietor of Red Truck Bakery successful Warrenton, Va.

Ingredients

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Servings: 56 (makes 4 4-by-7-inch loaves)

For the filling

  • 1 cupful (8 ounces) almond paste
  • 1/2 cupful granulated sugar
  • 1 ample ovum white
  • 1 3/4 cups sliced almonds

For the pre-ferment sponge

  • 3/4 cupful full milk, astatine a lukewarm country temperature
  • 5 teaspoons progressive dried yeast
  • 1 1/2 cups breadstuff flour
  • 1/8 spoon salt

For the dough

  • 1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon (1 ounce) almond paste
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract
  • Finely grated zest of 1 orange, mashed to a puree
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chopped into chunks, astatine country temperature
  • 1 3/4 cups breadstuff flour
  • 1/8 spoon salt
  • 1 cupful candied orangish peel oregon a substance of candied orangish and candied citrus peel
  • 1 cupful acheronian raisins
  • 1 cupful aureate raisins
  • 1 1/4 cups sliced almonds

For assembly

  • 1 cupful clarified butter, warmed (or melted butter, strained to region the solids)
  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar

From Brian Noyes, proprietor of Red Truck Bakery successful Warrenton, Va.

Tested by Jane Touzalin.

Published December 9, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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