Stollen

to the fortunately less likely to make her blood pressure rise showstopper.

So they had to make a celebration bread from enriched bread, you know, like your sort of brioches and your Stollens and things like that, your panettones.

So inevitably we're getting a lot of Christmas creeping in.

I know, I know, we'll see you word.

And yes, there's lovely little wooden huts and you get all manner of lovely hot drinks and nice pastries out of them.

You've got your lovely Christmas stall with a sort of orangey vanilla brioche.

and lots of little mini Stalin sitting in them, like kind of, I don't know, a little sort of bready nativity almost.

I would eat the hell out of those.

Yeah, let's go to judging.

Nigella loved saying Stollen.

She loves to say a word in another language.

Case in point, when Clara showed her one and she hit her with a Obrigado.

It's a country famed for its national sweet tooth, its strudels, fruitcakes, pies and gateau.

Germany is the birthplace of Stollen, Black Forest Gateau and the Christmas cookies known as Lebkuchen.

Today, such items are sold in supermarkets, delighting customers around the world.

They've also been made popular by German Christmas markets, which have arisen in cities in many different countries.

For many, it's the taste of childhood summers, of picnics, parks, and outdoor occasions.

Of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Christmas and the kind of kuchen served in winter.

Stollen is perhaps one of the best-known dishes, though technically it's bread rather than cake.

The first appearance of this traditional Christmas bread may date back to the 14th century.

And, you know, here in Germany, I'm in Berlin and you do start, I mean, in Germany, they are obsessed with Christmas.

So you do start to see like the Stollen and the Christmas chocolates and all that stuff appear in the supermarkets in September.

So you do start to get these kind of recognizable things around you.

I feel that Halloween is my, I need to get that out of the way first before I think of Christmas, you know,

And what's that

bread? Is it Stollen? Stollen, yeah.

Stollen? They've also got vegan Stollen in Lidl as well, like big loaves of it, big slabs of it.

God, yeah.

I might have to reconsider my no gluten thing.