Stollen is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German Christmas bread. During the Christmas season the cake-like loaves are called Weihnachtsstollen or Christstollen.
A Christmas Stollen
Stollen
Augustus II the Strong, by Louis de Silvestre
The Grand Dresden Stollen Knife
Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated.
A traditional fruitcake loaf
A traditional Easter Simnel cake
Keks sold in a shop
German Früchtebrot