This Christmas, every baker in town seems to be making stollen, the German "bread" that's more like a cake, baked as it is with dried fruits, candied citrus peels, nuts and spices with a marzipan centre. Stollen's sudden popularity is inexplicable. Until a few years ago, very few had even heard of it, but now it's available across cities-made by local home-bakers as well as pan-India bakeries and chocolatiers like Theobroma and La Folie. In Bengaluru, where I live, several large bakeries around town, from Lavonne to Happy Belly Bakes, Liliyum Patisserie and Honore, have baked stollens this year.
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