Rangiora Bakery wins top award for traditional Christmas loaf

Nicole Mathewson Reporter from Northern Outlook

By reporter Tatiana Gibbs:

Artisan by Rangiora Bakery is officially home to New Zealand’s best stollen, taking out the top spot in the 2022 Baking New Zealand Christmas Competition.

The North Canterbury favourite pulled out a special family recipe in their mission to be crowned the country's best.

A stollen is a European Christmas bread, loaded with fruits, nuts, marzipan and coated with powdered or icing sugar.

The bakery’s general manager, Frank Janssen, used an original family recipe from his forefather’s bakery back home in Holland, and with the help of his Rangiora team, created their own signature stollen.

“That recipe is very traditional and lovely to eat. For the competition we wanted to enrich it a bit more with spice and nuts. We wanted a nutty flavour and the warmth of the spice to come through,” Janssen said.

“Even the marzipan core of our stollen was made from scratch in the bakery.”

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