Butter stollen cake

Butter or Christmas stollen is a typical Christmas confectionery, whose history can be traced back over 600 years. In its origin the Christmas stollen points to a Christian meaning. This confectionery, in its form and with its sugar crust, is the symbol of the Christ Child, wrapped in diapers.

The Christian legend tells how this type of baked good originated. The herdswomen who rushed to the crib to see and worship Jesus, suddenly thought of the bread they had left in the oven at home. Maria comforted them: while changing the baby's diaper she had thought of these loaves of bread.

That is why a Christmas stollen must be wrapped lengthwise around its centre, just like a baby in its diaper.