Schlünder Traditional Christ-Stollen, 17.6 oz (500g)

The plain one — and for a lot of people, the right one. No marzipan, no almond topping, just the stollen itself: a dense, buttery Christmas loaf heavy with raisins and candied peel, baked and then buried in icing sugar.

27% raisins, which is a lot — nearly a third of the loaf by weight — plus orange and lemon peel through the crumb. Stollen is meant to be made weeks ahead and left to mature; the sugar crust seals it, and the flavour deepens the longer it sits.

How to serve it: cut thin slices across the loaf, not wedges. It wants strong coffee or black tea. Keep the cut face wrapped and it will stay good right through the season.

Baked by Schlünder Brot und Kuchen in Arnsberg, Germany.

Ingredients: wheat flour, 27% raisins, palm fat*, sugar, dextrose, glucose-fructose syrup, rapeseed oil, orange peels, lemon peels, humectant: sorbitols; wheat starch, yeast, emulsifiers: mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate; natural flavouring, salt, fully hydrogenated palm fat. (*certified sustainable palm oil.)

Allergens — contains: wheat. May contain traces of nuts, eggs and milk products.

Nutrition — 6 servings per container: total fat 12 g, trans fat 0 g, cholesterol 0 mg, sodium 140 mg, protein 4 g, including 16 g added sugars.

Net weight 500 g (17.6 oz). Product of Germany. Store in a cool, dry place.