Oriental tunnel

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3.5 2
COOK TIME
180 mins
TOTAL TIME
180 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 25
  • 100 g dried dates and figs
  • 200 g dried apricots
  • 3-4 Tbsp Orange liqueur
  • 1/8 l Milk
  • 500 g + 1 tablespoon of flour
  • 1 cube (42 g) fresh yeast
  • 1 TEASPOON + 70 g sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 TEASPOON grated lemon peel (is there
  • 7-10 Tbsp ready to buy)
  • 2 TEASPOONS Gingerbread spice
  • 200 g + 100 g soft butter/margarine
  • 60 g crushed pistachio kernels
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • 125 g Icing sugar

Directions

  1. 1

    Roughly chop dried fruit and sprinkle with liqueur. Leave to stand for approx. 1 hour

  2. 2

    Warm up the milk. Put 500 g flour in a bowl and make a depression in the middle. Crumble yeast into it, add milk. Mix with some flour and 1 teaspoon sugar to the pre-dough. Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes

  3. 3

    Add 70 g sugar, salt, lemon peel, spice and 200 g fat in pieces to the pre-dough. Knead everything into a smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise for about 30 minutes

  4. 4

    Drain the fruit and turn it in 1 tablespoon of flour. Mix with pistachios, up to 1 tablespoon, and knead into the dough. Shape dough into a stollen and place on a greased baking tray. Cover the stollen and let it rise for about 30 minutes

  5. 5

    Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C / convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 10 minutes first. Then bake at 175 °C (fan oven: 150 °C / gas: level 2) for another 25-30 minutes

  6. 6

    Melt 100 g fat. Spread half of the warm stollen, dust half of the icing sugar over it. Repeat the process. Sprinkle with the rest of the pistachios

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
260 kcal
CARBS
32 g
FATS
12 g
PROTEINS
4 g

Categories & Tags

MiscellaneousChristmas