Rita's Dresdner Stollen Cake

Ingredients

• 1 kg flour
• 100g fresh yeast or 2 packages active dry yeast
• null 500ml Anchor Milk
• 200g sugar
• 500g unsalted butter
• Zest of 1 lemon (spray free)
• 125 ground sweet almonds
• If available 50g of ground bitter almonds or bitter almond flavouring
• 10g of Salt
• 30g vanilla sugar or some vanilla essence
• 375g raisins (if desired soaked in rum overnight)
• 100g currants
• 150g chopped candied orange peel (orangeat) and candied lemon peel (zitronat)
• 200g of unsalted butter
• 100-200g of icing sugar
• All ingredients have the same temperature
• Salt and fat do not come into direct contact with the yeast
• Do not expose the dough to a draft while it is rising
• Prepare a preliminary dough to test the yeast