Stollen | Beef and Brioche

Name: Stollen | Beef and Brioche
Ingredients: 375g strong flour; 9g fast action yeast; 50g caster sugar; 7g salt; 2 tsp glycerine (optional - it is supposed to make the stollen softer); 170ml whole milk, warmed; 1 egg, beaten; 75g butter, soften; 300g mixed fruit (inc peel); 1 tbsp mixed spice; 1/4 nutmeg, grated; 300g marzipan; 20g butter; 3 tbsp icing sugar

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Not as sweet as a cake and not as plain as a loaf of bread, stollen is the perfect Christmas combination. The slightly sweetened enriched bread from Germany with ripples of marzipan running through...