plural stollen or stollens
: a sweet yeast bread of German origin containing fruit and nuts
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Once cool, generously dust the stollen with confectioner’s sugar.
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Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
Store stollen well wrapped at room temperature for up to 1 week.
—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
The bakery’s classic Christmas stollen—a traditional German fruitcake with marzipan and powdered sugar—is another crowd favorite.
—Taryn White, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Unlike other stollen, a traditional fruit bread enjoyed across Germany, Dresdner Christstollen is in a league of its own.
—Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
To end the meal, diners can choose from a sprawling dessert buffet featuring a festive spin on holiday classics such as buche de noel, rice pudding, Mexican eggnog macarons, and stollen.
—William Li, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
Common examples: brioche, challah, stollen and panettone.
—Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
There’s also a high tea that day, promising stollen and Yule logs.
—Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2019
Highlights: Make your first stop — and come back on your way out of town — the Bavarian Bakery, and pray mightily that owner and baker Berthold Timmerman coaxed an apple strudel or marzipan stollen from the oven a half-hour before.
—latimes.com, 20 May 2018
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Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
Store stollen well wrapped at room temperature for up to 1 week.
—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
The bakery’s classic Christmas stollen—a traditional German fruitcake with marzipan and powdered sugar—is another crowd favorite.
—Taryn White, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Unlike other stollen, a traditional fruit bread enjoyed across Germany, Dresdner Christstollen is in a league of its own.
—Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
To end the meal, diners can choose from a sprawling dessert buffet featuring a festive spin on holiday classics such as buche de noel, rice pudding, Mexican eggnog macarons, and stollen.
—William Li, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
Common examples: brioche, challah, stollen and panettone.
—Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
There’s also a high tea that day, promising stollen and Yule logs.
—Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2019
Highlights: Make your first stop — and come back on your way out of town — the Bavarian Bakery, and pray mightily that owner and baker Berthold Timmerman coaxed an apple strudel or marzipan stollen from the oven a half-hour before.
—latimes.com, 20 May 2018
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“Stollen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stollen. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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