Stollen

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Stollen

A Christmas Stollen
Type	Fruit bread
Place of origin	Germany
Region or state	Saxony
Main ingredients	Candied fruit or dried fruit, nuts, spices (cardamom and cinnamon); sugar, powdered sugar or icing sugar
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Stollen (German: [ˈʃtɔlən] ^ⓘ or German: [ʃtɔln] ^ⓘ) is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German Christmas bread. During the Christmas season the cake-like loaves are called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ). A ring-shaped Stollen made in a Bundt cake or Gugelhupf pan is called a Stollenkranz (Stollen wreath).