October 20, 2025

Quark Stollen

by KOMEKO Team in Recipes

How many Stollen do you want to bake?

This quark stollen impresses with aromatic fruits, roasted almonds, and fine marzipan. Lightly sugared on the outside, moist and aromatic on the inside – perfect for coffee, tea, or as a gift during the Christmas season.

#gluten-free

Ingredients

For the dough:

80 g sugar
100 g soft butter
125 g quark
50 g marzipan
1 egg (size M)
250 g KOMEKO KUCHENGLÜCK
15 g cream of tartar baking powder
Bourbon vanilla
1 pinch of salt

Miscellaneous:

30 g candied lemon peel
30 g candied orange peel
4 tbsp rum or apple juice
125 g sultanas
85 g almond sticks
4 tbsp milk

For decoration:

Butter
Sugar or powdered sugar

Preparation

Prepare fruit
Puree the candied lemon and orange peel with rum (or apple juice), mix with the sultanas and let it steep for a few hours.
Prepare almonds
Lightly toast the almond slivers in a pan, mix with milk and let stand.
Prepare the dough base
Mix sugar, butter, quark, marzipan, egg and spices until smooth.
Mix in flour mixture
Mix KOMEKO KUCHENGLÜCK with cream of tartar baking powder and knead with the other ingredients to form a smooth dough.
Fold in almonds and fruit
Knead in the almonds and finally gently fold in the fruit so that the sultanas remain whole.
Forming Stollen
Shape the dough into a stollen or place it into suitable stollen molds.
Bake and decorate
Bake at 180°C (top/bottom heat) for approximately 40–50 minutes (use a toothpick to test if the dough is cooked). After baking, brush with melted butter and roll in sugar. Let cool and dust with powdered sugar if desired.