Holiday Stollen Bread

Holiday Stollen Bread is a staple German bakery item with roots as early as 1329. This stollen bread is crafted over a day’s time with the sweetened dough rising and fermenting just the right amount before it’s mixed with candied fruits and nuts and rolled out by hand. After it’s baked, it’s lathered with a generous helping of butter and rolled in sugar to perfect it’s appearance as the perfect holiday sweet treat.

The Sehnert family has been baking since the 1500s, and in 1897 Richard Sehnert brought the family bakery from his native Germany to America. Ten branches of the Sehnert family opened bakeries in the US during the 1900s, but today only one remains. Sehnert’s Bakery has been a cornerstone of the southwest Nebraska town of McCook since being founded by Walt and Jean Sehnert in 1957, carried into the 21st century under the ownership of Walt and Jean’s son Matt and his wife Shelley, and today it’s owned by Sehnert family friends Andrew and Alix Ambriz, along with their sons. In 2019, the bakery was honored by the James Beard Foundation with their prestigious America’s Classics Award for their Bieroc.