Chocolate Chip Stollen Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix 3 cups flour, yeast, salt and sugar well.
• In a saucepan, heat milk, vanilla, and 1/2 cup butter slightly until butter melts. Cool with an ice cube.
• Add milk mixture to flour mixture and mix by hand for 2 minutes.
• Add 1/2 C flour and eggs and mix until well blended.
• Stir in remaining 3/4 C flour and hand mix until dough is smooth.
• Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Roll out dough into two oblong shapes and spread 1 Tbsp melted butter on each piece.
• Sprinkle cinnamon and spread nuts onto both pieces of dough, to 1/2" from the edge.
• Roll up jelly roll fashion along the long side of the dough, and crimp ends shut. Seal ends and opening along dough with wet fingers, so that dough does not open up during baking.
• Place both on an ungreased cookie sheet, and allow to rise uncovered in a warm place until double in bulk, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Bake in a preheated 350° F oven for 20 minutes, until light golden brown.
• Allow to cool and frost with desired frosting.

Steps:

• Put 1 kg flour in a very large bowl, make a crater, add about a tablespoon of sugar and the yeast into the crater and stir in the milk to make a creamy starter dough (You won't stir in all the flour, just some of it to make a thick "sauce". Cover and keep warm for 20 minutes.
• Mix the rest of the sugar with the eggs, the vanilla bean, the lemon zest and the salt until creamy. Combine with the starter mixture. Cover and let rise in a warm area for about 40 minutes.
• Knead the 400 g of butter and the other 200 grams of flour with the spices. Combine with the risen dough, kneading thoroughly. Let rise for another 30 minutes.
• Knead in the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate. Let rise about another 30 minutes.
• Divide the dough into 2 parts and form a long log out of each. Roll this a little flat, so that it is about a an inch and a half or two inches thick, making a long rectangle. Fold a third of the long side towards the middle. Repeat with the other part of dough.
• Place on a baking sheet covered with parchement. You will need to separate the loaves. Do this by rolling up baking parchement loosely and covering it with aluminum foil, placing it between the two loaves. I recommend doing this to the outside of the loaves, two, otherwise the loaves will spread and not rise properly. You could also use a special form, but these are hard to get. Let rise for another 20 minutes. The Stollen should double in size.
• Bake at 200° C for 1 hour to 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• While the stollen is still warm, melt the 150 g of butter. Spoon over one stollen and sift the powdered sugar over it, covering it completely. Repeat with the other one. Wrap tightly in aluminum foil and store for two weeks before eating, so that the flavor develops. (You can eat it right away, if you'd like).