A gift of Stollen, very disappointing!

I understand that you need to pour melted butter over the top then icing sugar. We have just received one from a German cousin but not tried it yet.

Aldi do nice stollen they are moist and rich you can buy the small bites they are nice too.

Try it toasted.

They make good bread-and-butter pudding. I have been given one with chocolate running through.
I find a lot of continental pastries dry. Perhaps we do not eat them the same way.

Stollen are lovely, we have one every xmas. They are better with butter.

I love Stollen and I often find the cheaper the better. My German grandparents would always include one in their Christmas parcel from Berlin because such things of course did not exist in our wee town in the 50’s.
I remember many many years ago D who was barely reading expressing her horror that according to the box I had apparently Stolen it from Sainsbugs.
I actually have a friend coming round in an hour for coffee, Stollen bites and mini mince pies .

I wait with anticipation every year to buy a Stollen they are delicious with butter,I also love the Italian Pantone also from Aldi, continental taste buds are so different to our's.

I would use it to make a bread and butter pudding or a trifle!

Bought one from Betty’s this year.

It arrived. Tiny and frankly I could and have done better myself.

I have to make my own gluten free one every year as I’ve tried and failed many times to buy one.

It’s delicious - even if I say so myself. ?

glammanana

I wait with anticipation every year to buy a Stollen they are delicious with butter,I also love the Italian Pantone also from Aldi, continental taste buds are so different to our's.

I’ll tell you what else is delicious with butter - the barm brack I made yesterday! Lovely and moist and fruity.
No fat and only one egg, but fruit and sugar soaked overnight in tea - supposed to be cold, but it was made specially, and hot.

I always get a ( couple of) stollen from Aldi, they do the regular £2 and luxury £4 option. I usually buy regular and yes it is not a fruit cake as we have so maybe a bit dryer, we all love it.
Perhaps if you like custard put that on, or ice cream , jam or some sort of choc sauce. Butter it perhaps. I am sure it woukd make a lovely bread and butter pudding. Jamie Oliver used a panettone last night and it looked delicious.
We had one sent from Berlin a few years ago, Dresden stollen are supposed to be the best and it was a little drier than dear old Aldi. Presumably being German Lidl will do it too. It us the traditional German Christmas cake and we have it every year.

That barm brack sounds lovely Witzend,

Lidl have delicious Stollen bites, this thread has just reminded me to ask Mr. B to get some tomorrow.

I love those bites . We both love them so much they kind of disappear very quickly !

silverlining48

I always get a ( couple of) stollen from Aldi, they do the regular £2 and luxury £4 option. I usually buy regular and yes it is not a fruit cake as we have so maybe a bit dryer, we all love it.
Perhaps if you like custard put that on, or ice cream , jam or some sort of choc sauce. Butter it perhaps. I am sure it woukd make a lovely bread and butter pudding. Jamie Oliver used a panettone last night and it looked delicious.
We had one sent from Berlin a few years ago, Dresden stollen are supposed to be the best and it was a little drier than dear old Aldi. Presumably being German Lidl will do it too. It us the traditional German Christmas cake and we have it every year.

One of my family in Germany got me a Dresdner Stollen, it was drier but delicious . The tin is beautiful also.

We were gifted a traditional German Stollen two years ago by visiting relatives from Europe. It was 12 months out of date! The birds enjoyed it though ?‍♀️

I got a box of stollen slices from Waitrose last week. They weren't in the least dry or stodgy, had some fruit in them and certainly didn't need to be buttered. I enjoyed demolishing them.

Aldi ones are lovely! (from someone who doesn't even like marzipan!)

We ate a Dresdener stollen over a year out of date and it tasted fine. It was in a cotton bag inside a very nice tin box.
We still have the box and the drawstring bag but the stollen got eaten, every crumb.
The bites are nice too. I LOVE marzipan.

I love Stollen but not all of them are as good as they could be. I have found a wide variation in supermarkets here. Some are really dry and tasteless, the smaller ones do seem to be better than the large ones I find.

I am also a fan of stollen. Like the OP I have come across dry, stale ones and prefer to buy mine from Lidl.
I have tried to make them in the past. It is a bit like making hot cross buns - too much like a chore.

I have done extensive research into this issue (), and IMO Lidl stollen bites are the best, with M&S and Aldi runners up. I've never had one from Dresden (or anywhere else in actual Germany), as opposed to imported ones, though.

Doodledog
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