Embark on a culinary journey to the heart of German baking traditions with the delectable yeast poppy seed roll, known as Mohnstriezel. This iconic pastry is a symphony of flavors and textures, featuring a soft and fluffy yeast dough swirled with a luscious poppy seed filling. This article presents you with two irresistible recipes for Mohnstriezel, each offering a unique take on this classic treat.
The first recipe, referred to as Einfacher Mohnstriezel or "Simple Poppy Seed Roll," lives up to its name with its straightforward approach. This version focuses on the essential ingredients and techniques, making it perfect for novice bakers or those short on time. The dough is prepared using a simple combination of flour, yeast, sugar, butter, milk, and eggs. The poppy seed filling is equally uncomplicated, consisting of poppy seeds, sugar, milk, and butter. The result is a delightful pastry that showcases the natural goodness of its components.
The second recipe, known as Mohnstriezel mit Quarkfüllung or "Poppy Seed Roll with Quark Filling," elevates the classic Mohnstriezel to new heights of indulgence. This variation introduces a luscious quark filling, adding a creamy and tangy dimension to the pastry. The quark filling is prepared by combining quark, sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract, resulting in a smooth and flavorful center that complements the poppy seed filling perfectly. Both recipes provide step-by-step instructions, ensuring that even inexperienced bakers can achieve success. Whether you prefer the simplicity of the Einfacher Mohnstriezel or the decadent richness of the Mohnstriezel mit Quarkfüllung, these recipes guarantee a delightful homemade treat that will impress your family and friends.
GERMAN POPPY SEED STOLLEN (MOHNSTOLLEN)
This wonderful poppy seed stollen recipe is straight from Germany. It tastes best if you can freshly grind your poppy seeds. In Germany there are special poppy seed grinders, but you can use a mortar and pestle. Don't use a regular spice grinder, as poppy seeds contain a lot of oil and your grinder will get clogged up.
Provided by monika1969
Categories Bread Yeast Bread Recipes
Time 3h40m
Yield 14
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Place flour in a large bowl, make a well in the center, and crumble fresh yeast into it. Pour 1 cup lukewarm milk into the well and stir into the yeast. Cover and let rise in a warm place until foamy, about 15 minutes.
- Mix flour from the sides of the bowl into the yeast mixture, a little at a time. Add butter, 6 tablespoons sugar, and salt and knead until a soft, pliable dough forms. Cover with a clean dish towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
- Grease a baking sheet with butter. Sprinkle a work surface with flour and roll out dough into a thin rectangle.
- Pour poppy seeds into a bowl and pour 1 cup hot milk on top. Add 3/4 cup sugar, raisins, honey, vanilla sugar, rum, and lemon zest and stir together until filling is well combined. Spread filling over dough rectangle. Roll up rectangle, starting at the longer side, and press seam together with your fingers. Place poppy seed stollen onto the prepared baking sheet with the seam side down. Cover and let stollen rise for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake stollen in the preheated oven until baked through, about 40 minutes. Allow to cool for about 1 hour and dust with confectioners' sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 392.1 calories, Carbohydrate 57.4 g, Cholesterol 16.2 mg, Fat 14.9 g, Fiber 3.2 g, Protein 9.3 g, SaturatedFat 4.7 g, Sodium 103.1 mg, Sugar 25.6 g
GERMAN YEAST POPPY SEED ROLL MOHNSTRIEZEL
This is the traditional German Poppy seed roll recipe with a different way of preparing the dough by putting dough in Cold water for 15 minutes.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 1h35m
Yield 2 cakes
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- TO MAKE THE DOUGH: Place the poppy seeds in a bowl, pour in enough boiling water to cover them by an inch and soak for 3 hours.
- Pour the lukewarm water into a small, shallow bowl and sprinkle the yeast and 1/2 teaspoon of the sugar over it.
- Let the yeast and sugar stand 2 or 3 minutes, then stir to dissolve them completely.
- Set in a warm, draft-free spot, such as an unlighted oven, for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the mixture almost doubles in volume.
- Transfer the yeast to a large mixing bowl.
- Dissolve the 1/2 cup of sugar in the milk and then stir the milk into the yeast.
- Beat in 3 cups of the sifted flour about 1/4 at a time.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time and then the 1/4 pound butter broken into bits, and continue to beat until the dough can be gathered into a compact ball.
- Transfer it to a lightly floured board and knead in the remaining cup of flour a few tablespoons at a time, pushing the dough down with the heels of your hands, pressing it forward and folding it back on itself.
- Knead until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is stiff and quite dry.
- Shape it into a rough ball, place it in a mixing bowl, and add enough COLD water to cover the dough by several inches.
- In 10 to 15 minutes, the top of the ball of dough should rise above the surface of the water.
- Remove the dough from the water and pat the surface as dry as you can with paper towels.
- Return it to a floured board, punch it down, and knead again for 10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Shape the dough into a ball, place it in a lightly buttered bowl, and cover loosely with a kitchen towel.
- Let the dough rise in a warm draft-free place for about 30 minutes, or until it doubles in bulk.
- I put the dough in the oven with the pilot light on for warmth.
- FOR THE FILLING: Meanwhile, for the filling, drain the poppy seeds and spread them out on paper towels to dry.
- Then pulverize them, 1/2 cup or so at a time, in an electric blender or with a mortar and pestle and combine them with the almonds, raisins and lemon peel in a large bowl.
- In a heavy saucepan, combine 3/4 cup of the milk and sugar and bring to a boil over moderate heat.
- Reduce the heat to low.
- With a whisk, beat the 2 Tablespoons of flour into the remaining 1/4 cup of milk, then slowly beat it into the simmering milk.
- Again bring to a boil, whisking constantly, until the mixture is thick and smooth.
- Pour it over the poppy-seed mixture and stir well.
- Then beat in the egg yolk.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg white until it forms firm unwavering peaks on the beater when it is lifted out of the bowl.
- With a rubber spatula, fold the egg white gently but thoroughly, into the poppy-seed filling.
- TO MAKE THE ROLL: Coat the bottom and sides of two 5 by 10 by 2 1/2-inch loaf pans with 2 tablespoons of soft butter and set them aside.
- Preheat the oven to 375 F.
- When the dough has risen, punch it down and divide it into two equal pieces.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll each half into a rectangle about 10 by 15 inches and a little less than 1/4 inch thick.
- With a spatula, spread the filling evenly over the two rectangles to within 1/2 inch of their edges.
- Dribble 4 Tablespoons of melted butter over each and then shape them as follows: First roll one long side to the center, jelly-roll fashion, then roll the opposite side to the center jelly-roll fashion.
- Firmly holding both sides together, turn each cake over so that the seam is on the bottom when the cake is set in its pan.
- Brush the tops with the egg and cream mixture and bake in the middle of the oven for 1 hour, or until the cakes are golden brown and crusty.
- Cool in the pans for 5 minutes or so, then turn them out on a cake rack.
- Cool completely before serving.
- To make two 10-inch loaves The Cooking of Germany.
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MOHNSTRIEZEL -- POPPY SEED CAKE
Make and share this Mohnstriezel -- Poppy Seed Cake recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Sackville
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 4h
Yield 2 cakes
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Place the poppy seeds for the filling in a bowl, cover with boiling water and soak for three hours.
- Pour the lukewarm water into a small bowl and sprinkle the yeast and 1/2 teaspoon sugar on top.
- Leave for a few minutes until frothy.
- Transfer the yeast to a large bowl.
- Dissolve the 1/2 cup sugar in the milk and then stir the milk into the yeast.
- Beat in three cups of the flour about 1/4 cup at a time.
- Beat in the eggs one by one and then the butter, which should be broken into bits.
- Beat until the dough can be gathered into a ball.
- Transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead in the remaining cup of flour a few tablespoons at a time.
- The dough will be stiff and quite dry.
- Shape it into a rough ball, place it in a mixing bowl and add enough cold water to cover the dough by several inches.
- In 10-15 minutes the top of the dough should rise above the surface of the water.
- Remove the dough from the water and pat dry with paper towels.
- Return to a floured board and knead again for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Shape into a ball and place in a lightly buttered bowl.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes or until doubled.
- Meanwhile, drain the poppy seeds and spread them out on paper towels to dry.
- Then pulverize them in an electric blender or with a mortar and pestle.
- Combine the seeds with the almonds, raisin and lemon peel in a large bowl.
- In a heavy saucepan, bring 3/4 cup of the milk and the sugar to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to low and whisk in the 2 tbsp flour in the remaining 1/4 cup of milk.
- Slowly beat the flour and milk mixture into the simmering milk.
- Bring to a boil again, whisking constantly until the mixture is thick and smooth.
- Pour over the poppy seed mixture and stir well, then beat in the egg yolk.
- Separately, beat the egg white until it forms peaks.
- Fold into the poppy-seed filling.
- Grease the bottom and sides of two 5 x 10 x 2-1/2 inch loaf pans with the soft butter and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 375 F.
- When the dough has risen, punch it down and divide in half.
- Roll each half into a rectangle about 10 x 15 inches and 1/4 inch thick.
- Spread the filling evenly over the rectangles to within 1/2 inch of their edges.
- Dribble 4 tbsp of melted butter over each and then shape them by rolling each 10 inch side into the centre, jelly-roll fashion.
- Hold both sides together and flip so the seam is on the bottom when the cake is set in its pan.
- Brush the tops with the egg and cream mixture and bake on a middle oven shelf for 1 hour or until the cakes are golden brown and crusty.
- Cool in the pans for about five minutes, then turn onto a cake rack.
- Cool completely before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 3699.9, Fat 186.6, SaturatedFat 79.9, Cholesterol 723.3, Sodium 694.5, Carbohydrate 451.4, Fiber 25.9, Sugar 213.2, Protein 78.3
OLD WORLD POPPY SEED ROLL
Tender, soft, sweet yeast bread swirled with a creamy homemade poppy seed filling. Growing up, my mother and aunts always made this Eastern European bread for Easter and Christmas. Looks complicated, but is easy enough to make for an Old-World treat. I like it best after the second day.
Provided by Linda
Categories Bread Yeast Bread Recipes
Time 2h50m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Place poppy seeds into a food processor and process until seeds are ground, about 1 minute.
- Mix poppy seeds with 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter, lemon juice, and hot milk in a bowl; stir to combine. Cover poppy seed filling and refrigerate while making bread (filling will set up and thicken as it chills).
- Mix yeast with water and 2 tablespoons sugar in a small bowl. Allow to stand until the yeast forms a creamy layer.
- Whisk flour with salt in a bowl; use a pastry cutter to cut 1/4 cup butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Pour yeast mixture and egg yolk into flour mixture and stir to make a soft dough.
- Turn dough out onto a floured work surface and knead until smooth and slightly springy, about 5 minutes. If dough is too sticky, knead in more flour, about 2 tablespoons at a time.
- Cut dough into 2 equal pieces. Roll each piece out into a 12x16-inch rectangle.
- Spread half the poppy seed filling over each rectangle, leaving a 1-inch border. Fold the 1-inch border back over the filling on all sides and press down.
- Pick up the shorter side of a dough rectangle and roll it like a jelly roll; repeat with second rectangle. Pinch ends together or tuck ends under to prevent filling from leaking out.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; place rolls seam sides down on the baking sheet and allow to rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Beat egg white in a bowl until frothy; brush the rolls with beaten egg white.
- Bake in preheated oven until dark golden brown on top, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from oven and cover rolls with a clean kitchen towel until cool to keep crust soft. Cool completely before slicing.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 216.3 calories, Carbohydrate 26.8 g, Cholesterol 21.8 mg, Fat 10.6 g, Fiber 1.9 g, Protein 5 g, SaturatedFat 3.2 g, Sodium 109.5 mg, Sugar 13.3 g
Tips:
- Activate the yeast properly: Make sure the water is warm, not hot, and give the yeast a few minutes to foam before adding it to the dough.
- Knead the dough well: The more you knead the dough, the more elastic and smooth it will be. This will help the dough rise properly and give the finished roll a light and fluffy texture.
- Let the dough rise in a warm place: The ideal temperature for rising dough is between 75°F and 85°F. If the dough is too cold, it will not rise properly. If it is too hot, it will rise too quickly and may collapse.
- Roll out the dough evenly: When rolling out the dough, use a light touch and try to keep it as even as possible. This will help the roll to bake evenly.
- Fill the roll generously: Don't be shy with the poppy seed filling! The more filling you use, the more delicious the roll will be.
- Bake the roll until golden brown: The roll is done baking when it is golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Conclusion:
This German yeast poppy seed roll, known as Mohnstriezel, is a delicious and traditional pastry that is perfect for any occasion. With its sweet and nutty filling, soft and fluffy dough, and beautiful presentation, this roll is sure to be a hit with everyone who tries it. So next time you're looking for a special treat to bake, give this Mohnstriezel a try!
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