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Ingredients
- 500g AP flour
- 2tsp baking powder
- 1tsp baking soda
- 200g Sugar
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar
- 4 drops sweet almond extract (Use bitter if you can get some, or bitter almond oil, the edible kind â donât put arsenic in your Stollen!)
- 1tbsp Rum
- 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 eggs
- 175g butter
- 250g âQuarkâ (I make my own. Link here)
- 100g dried currants
- 100g raisins
- 100g dried craisins
- 50gm candied ginger/orange peel
- Zest of 1 orange
- 150g ground almonds For the âicingâ:
- 50g butter
- 50g powdered sugar
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