Handcrafted German Christmas stollen

What Is Christmas stollen and why does ours taste different?

Christmas stollen — known in German as Christstollen or Weihnachtsstollen — is one of the oldest and most beloved festive baked goods in the world. Its origins lie in Saxony, in the very region where Bäckerei Weißbach has been baking for generations. A good stollen is far more than a fruit bread: it is a dense, deeply aromatic loaf enriched with butter, spices and dried fruit, shaped entirely by hand, baked slowly and then finished with a generous coating of melted butter and icing sugar. Sliced thinly and savoured with a cup of coffee or tea, it is one of the great pleasures of the festive season.

What sets our stollen apart begins with the butter. By German food law, a loaf can only be called "Butterstollen" if it contains at least 40 parts butter per 100 parts flour — a standard we exceed as a matter of course, because we know what butter does for texture and flavour. It also begins with the sultanas — plump, hand-selected and soaked in rum before they ever touch the dough. And it begins with our spice blend: a family recipe refined over decades in our Stollberg bakery, which gives our stollen its unmistakable depth and warmth.

We offer three distinct varieties. Our classic butter stollen is the full traditional experience: sultanas, almonds, candied citrus peel, rum and butter in perfect harmony. Our almond stollen strips things back for the purist — no raisins, no dominant spices, just the clean, fragrant flavour of sweet almonds and fine butter. And our poppy seed stollen brings something visually and gastronomically distinct: a rich, silky poppy filling swirled through light butter-yeast dough, deeply aromatic and endlessly satisfying.

Every loaf is freshly baked, packed without preservatives and shipped securely so it arrives in perfect condition — ready to become the centrepiece of your Christmas table.