Oh, Christmasstollen. The stollen story in ur family ( and many others in Germany before the wall came down) :
Once upon a time, before the Great Wall between the East and the West came down, the East Germans would watch western television ( which they were forbidden to do) and it would cause a great longing for all those wonderful things they saw in the west, which they didn't have. So when little American children would write to Santa, east Germans would write to their friends and families in the west a letter with wish lists for coffee and oranges, soaps and toys. And the western elves would start packing things up and sending them over to the east. But the evil border guards would stop the pacels, taking out things for themselves and delaying the delivery until the oranges got moldy.
At the same time, the Easterners would pack parcels as a thank you with what they had- the famous Dresdener Christmas stollen and hand crafted Christmas ornaments from Erzgebirge. And the parcels were sent off towards the west.
But, the evil border guards stopped these parcels as well and delayed the delivery until the Christmas stollen was hard and the ornaments did not find the tree, because christmas was over.
Then, one day in1989, the Easterners had enough and stormed the border to visit their friends and family in the West.
And nobody had to dip the dried out Christmas stollen into the coffee anymore.