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SEMINOLE, Fla. — Stephan Hoppe, the German Bread Guy, offers his recipe for stollen, a sweet Christmas bread with rum-soaked dried fruits. The recipe makes two servings. The butter will melt the sugar ...

IT ARRIVED EVERY year in mid-December, a hefty brick of a package wrapped in red cellophane and tied with a thin ribbon. Inside was my Great-Aunt Barb’s stollen, a traditional German Christmas bread ...

As the nights grow long and a chilly wind chases autumn’s leaves away, our thoughts turn to bread. The smell of dough rising on the counter, yeasty and warm, is only bested by the flavor of a finished ...

When Nadia Hassani moved from Germany to the Lehigh Valley area, she confronted a shocking American stereotype — that German food is nothing more than pork, sauerkraut and potatoes. “I’m not sure how ...

Bay Area bakers rise to the occasion with the traditional German holiday bread. Stollen. Dresden Christollen. Strutzel. Striezel. Stutenbrot. It may go by many names, but this oblong cake, dusted in a ...

This traditional German Christmas bread is rich thanks to marzipan and rum-soaked fruit. And despite a heavy dusting of powdered sugar, it isn't overly sweet. The recipe, from Andrew Whitley's "Bread ...