Butter Stollen Cake

Butter Stollen.

Availability
Available individually online and in our shops from around 02 November while stocks last.

The Butterstollen or Christstollen is a typical Christmas pastry whose history can be traced back over 600 years. In its origin, the Christstollen points to a Christian meaning. In its shape and with its sugar crust, this pastry is the symbolisation of the Christ Child wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Christian legend tells how this pastry shape came into being. The shepherdesses, who were hurrying to the manger to see and adore Jesus, suddenly thought of the loaves they had forgotten in the oven at home. Mary comforted them: When wrapping the Christ Child, she had thought of those loaves.

That is why a Christstollen must be wrapped lengthwise around its centre, like a baby in its nappies.