These Stollen bites keep very well for several weeks. If you can resist them, they never last more than a couple of days in our house.
Authentic German Stollen Bits with Marzipan Filling Recipe
Recipe
Marzipan Stollen Bites
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 14 tbsp. cold butter
- 1 cup flour
- 1 ½ cups almond flour
- ⅔ cup powdered sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 11 oz. marzipan
- 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 tbsp. pure almond extract
Topping
- Powdered sugar to taste
Instructions
- Separate eggs into two small bowls.
- Cut cold butter into ½-inch cubes.
- To a large bowl add flour, almond flour, powdered sugar, salt, egg yolks and cold butter.
- Knead to a smooth dough.
- Separate dough into four pieces and shape each quarter into a rectangle.
- Cover each rectangle with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350F and line baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Crumble the marzipan between your fingers and mix with egg whites, lemon juice and almond extract to a creamy consistency.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out one square of dough to ¼-inch in thickness.
- Spread one-quarter of the marzipan mixture on top of the dough and roll up carefully.
- Cut the roll into 1-inch slices and place on the prepared baking sheets.
- Repeat until all dough is processed.
- Bake for about 12-15 min.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets.
- Sprinkle heavily with powdered sugar.
Nutrition
Yield: 1grams
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Gill Bijlsma says
Hi there. I love the sound of this recipe and am keen to try it this weekend. I live in the UK and was wondering what type of flour you use? Is it plain, self raising or bread flour with yeast? Thanks. Gill
Angela Schofield says
Hi Gill, I am excited that you want to try my recipe. This little stollen bites are one of my favorite Christmas cookies. I use all-purpose flour which is plain flour in the UK. I hope you will like the cookies and hope you will let me know how they turned out for you. Happy to help, in case you run into questions.
Gill Bijlsma says
Thanks so much for your reply! I am busy making my own marzipan right now then attempting the stollen bites this afternoon. Very exciting indeed 😀 one quick question please... 14 tbsp butter, any idea what that equates to in oz? Thanks so much again. Gill
Angela Schofield says
WOW, you are busy! 14 tbsp. butter are about 7 oz. Hope that helps, Gill. Have a great weekend, Angela
androulla says
Hi There
I'm really interested in making these delicious mini stollen bites.
Can I please ask if you are using almond flour or ground almonds?
I am unsure if they are the same.
Thank you in advance
A. Papageorgiou
Angela Schofield says
Hi Androulla, I am using ground almonds, this makes the texture in my opinion more delicious. You could also use almond meal or flour but probably need to reduce the liquid a bit as it is finer.
Aida says
My family loves all desserts which include marzipan. I am so happy to find your cookie recipe.. I wish you had a little more visual information. Photographs of the rolling of the dough / size of the rectangle … from the final photograph the cookies look very slim and your 1/4” thick dough yields 50 cookies..that’s amazing 🤩
My dough is cooling in the fridge.My marzipan filling is ready. Should I wait for a reply
Maybe I’ll just go ahead..Thanks in advance, wishing you a Happy New Year from 🇨🇦
Aida
Angela Schofield says
Hi Aida, Happy New Year! Sorry for the late reply. I hope your cookies turned out great and your family enjoyed them. I will add step-by-step photos and a video tutorial in the future. Thank you for pointing out that this recipe needs some more visuals.