Mini kerststollen

These kerststollen are so nice for Christmas. Normally I don’t like it that much but these are really delicious. They are super airy and have a delicious filling of a pecan paste. It’s a really fun process to make. You can make 5 servings with this recipe.
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Preptime: 2 hours

Cooktime: 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the filling:

  • 100 grams of pecan nuts
  • 100 grams of sugar
  • 20 grams of egg
  • little bit of lemon zest
  • pinch of salt

For the dough:

  • 175 grams of flour
  • 4 grams of dry yeast
  • 15 grams of white sugar
  • 3 grams of salt
  • little bit of lemon zest
  • 30 grams of butter (room temperature)
  • 90 grams of water
  • 175 grams of raisins

For the finish:

  • 1 egg
  • pinch of salt
  • granulated sugar with cinnamon
  • Powdered sugar
  • cornstarch

Instructions

  1. Soak the raisins in warm water for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, place them between two tea towels and let them dry.
  2. Mix for the dough the flour, yeast, sugar, salt, lemon zest and butter. Do this for about 3 minutes, make sure that the yeast doesn’t touch the salt.
  3. After 3 minutes add the water little by little. Do not use all the water, if the dough will be too wet. Kneed the dough long enough until you can make a membrane of the dough. Now fold in the raisins.
  4. Take the dough out of the bowl and kneed it a little with the hand, till all the raisins are fold in. Make sure al the raisins are covered with dough.
  5. Make 5 balls out of the dough. Cover the balls with a towel and let them rest for 10 minutes.
  6. Ball up the balls again and let rest for another 10 minutes.
  7. For the filling: mix the sugar, egg, pecan nuts, salt and lemon zest. Do this in a chopper, till it forms a pecan paste. Now make 6 cylinders of pecan paste that we will fold into the balls.
  8. Now you lightly roll out each ball and make sure that the dough is a bit thinner in the middle.
  9. Place a cylinder in the center of each ball and fold the dough to close it.
  10. Lay them on a baking tray and brush them with a thin egg wash (egg with a pinch of salt). cover with foil. Let them rest for about 45 minutes.
  11. Bake them on 200 degrees celsius for about 10 minutes.
  12. After baking, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar if desired. After cooling, dust with icing sugar mixed with cornstarch.

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