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Autumn and winter are also the time for chestnuts. Chestnuts taste really good. They are an indispensable substitute for nuts. Chestnut stollen is juicy and tastes incomparably good.

Chestnut stollen

This chestnut stollen is a great alternative to a normal stollen. Using simple ingredients, you can quickly conjure up a pastry that you can take with you wherever you go. Whether for work or school or as a snack between meals.

Chestnut stollen

Chestnut stollen as an alternative to normal stollen. The chestnuts replace nuts and are particularly juicy.

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Prep Time 2 hours hrs 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 40 minutes mins

Total Time 3 hours hrs

Course cake

Servings 4 person

Ingredients

  

• 350 g whole spelt flour
• 30 g starch flour
• 30 g fresh yeast
• 100 g date flour
• 30 g spelt semolina
• 200 g soy drink
• 120 g soy yogurt
• 200 g chopped cooked chestnuts
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 0,5 tsp each ginger powder, clove powder, cardamom powder
• 1 pinch of ground coriander
• Juice of one orange or lemon

Instructions

 

• Cook the spelt semolina with the soy drink to make a semolina porridge.
• Mix together the flour, cornflour, date flour and spices.
• Dissolve the fresh yeast in 2 tablespoons of lukewarm soy drink in a cup. Add to the dry ingredients. Add the soy yoghurt and the juice of an orange or lemon. Knead everything well until a homogeneous dough is formed.
• Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hour. Then knead again and leave to rise for another 30 minutes.
• Slide the dough onto a floured surface.
• Chop the cooked chestnuts and carefully work them into the dough.
• Then shape into a stollen form. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and leave to rise again, covered, for approx. 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius top/bottom heat.
• Brush the stollen with lukewarm soy drink and bake in the oven for approx. 35 – 40 minutes. Brush with soy drink every 10 minutes.
• After 20 minutes, turn the oven down to 170 degrees Celsius and finish baking the stollen.
• After baking, brush again with soy drink and leave to cool.

Notes

Keyword chestnuts, cinnamon, Date flour, fresh yeast, Soy drink, Soy yogurt, spelt semolina, Spices, starch flour, Vegan, Whole spelt flour

Tips

If you like, add a few raisins to the dough. You can also use dates instead of date flour. Simply puree 12 Deglet Nour dates with 150 ml water in a blender.

Interesting to know

To get a stollen shape, roll out one half of the dough a little thinner, fold the thicker end of the dough in half onto the thinner side and then shape it into a slightly elongated shape.