**Austrian Kugelhopf: A Detailed Introduction to a Classic Dessert**
Indulge in the delectable Austrian Kugelhopf, a quintessential dessert with a rich history and captivating flavors. Originating in the 16th century, this iconic cake boasts a distinctive ring shape, a crispy caramelized crust, and a moist, airy crumb. Its versatility allows for various interpretations, from classic to contemporary, each offering a unique taste experience. Embark on a culinary journey with our comprehensive guide, featuring two enticing recipes: the Traditional Austrian Kugelhopf, a timeless classic that embodies the essence of this beloved dessert, and the Chocolate Kugelhopf, a delightful twist that adds a layer of rich chocolate indulgence. Discover the secrets behind this culinary masterpiece, from selecting the finest ingredients to mastering the delicate baking process. Prepare to be captivated by the irresistible aroma and tantalizing flavors of Austrian Kugelhopf, a true testament to the artistry and passion of baking.
KUGELHOPF
Provided by Florence Fabricant
Categories dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 12 to 16 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Mix the raisins with the Cognac and 3 tablespoons of the sugar in a small saucepan and set aside.
- Mix the yeast with 1/4 cup of the milk in a large bowl and set in a warm place for about 5 minutes, until it becomes frothy. Stir in the remaining milk and sugar. Add the salt and 2 cups of the flour.
- Beat the dough by hand or machine, adding all but 3/4 cup of the flour. Beat in all but 1 tablespoon of the butter, a tablespoon at a time. Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a dough that is soft but not sticky and is very elastic. Kneading should take 2 to 3 minutes by machine, or about 6 minutes by hand.
- Heat the raisin mixture and cook just until most of the Cognac has evaporated.
- Place the dough on a lightly floured surface and pat into a flattened rectangle. Spread the raisins on it, fold the dough over and knead a couple of minutes by hand to incorporate the raisins.
- Heavily butter a two-quart kugelhopf pan or a 10-inch bundt pan with the remaining tablespoon of butter and sprinkle with the almonds, turning the pan so they adhere to its interior. Place the dough in the pan, breaking a hole in the center to accommodate the tube. Set aside, lightly covered, and let rise 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
- Punch dough down in the pan. Let rise again, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake the cake for about 45 minutes, until nicely browned. Allow it to cool completely in the pan, then unmold. Dust with sifted confectioners' sugar before serving.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 372, UnsaturatedFat 7 grams, Carbohydrate 52 grams, Fat 14 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 8 grams, SaturatedFat 7 grams, Sodium 140 milligrams, Sugar 19 grams, TransFat 0 grams
GUGELHUPF
Gugelhupf is a classic German and Austrian cake that is baked in a gugelhupf pan, which is similar to a Bundt® pan, just a bit higher. Germans like their cakes on the dry side because they are traditionally eaten in the afternoon with a cup of coffee or tea ("Kaffee und Kuchen").
Provided by Lena
Time 1h30m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Combine butter and confectioners' sugar in a bowl and beat well with an electric mixer until creamy. Set aside for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 370 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease a gugelhupf pan (or Bundt® pan) with butter and dust with flour.
- Beat 1 egg in a cup and add to the butter-sugar mixture; beat until well combined. Repeat with remaining 2 eggs. Add egg yolks, lemon zest, and vanilla sugar; beat well. Fold in raisins.
- Beat egg whites in a glass, metal, or ceramic bowl until foamy. Gradually add white sugar, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. Carefully fold egg whites into the batter. Fold in sifted flour in batches. Spoon batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from oven and turn out onto a cake platter. Allow to cool completely and dust with confectioners' sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 418 calories, Carbohydrate 47.4 g, Cholesterol 169 mg, Fat 23.4 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 6.2 g, SaturatedFat 13.9 g, Sodium 42.3 mg, Sugar 29.5 g
GUGELHUPF
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 1h26m
Yield 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- To prepare the dough: in a bowl, combine milk, sugar, and yeast. Stir and allow to proof.
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt. Using the paddle attachment, over low speed, slowly add the yeast mixture. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and lastly, the butter, a piece at a time.
- Continue to beat at medium speed until the dough gets elastic and almost forming a ball around the paddle, about 3 to 4 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until double in size, about 45 to 60 minutes.
- Generously butter a gugelhupf mold. Sprinkle with sugar. Reserve.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Roll out the dough into 1/4-inch thickness, about 12-inches wide and 16-inches long. Spread the butter throughout the surface. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over the butter. Lastly, sprinkle the chopped nuts and macerated raisins. Roll the dough into a log and place inside the prepared mold.
- Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until top is well browned. Leave it to cool in the mold for 10 minutes, then unmold it on a wire rack. Sprinkle generously with sifted powdered sugar before serving.
KUGELHOPF
Categories Bread Dessert Bake Raisin Almond Winter Gourmet Vegetarian Pescatarian Peanut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes 8 to 10 dessert or snack servings
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Stir together yeast and water in a small bowl and let stand until foamy, 5 to 10 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)
- Heat milk with 6 tablespoons butter and granulated sugar over low heat, stirring, until mixture is warm (105 to 115°F), butter is melted, and sugar is dissolved.
- Sift together flour and salt into bowl of standing mixer. Make a well in flour and add yeast mixture. Add warm milk in a slow stream, mixing at low speed with paddle attachment. Increase speed to medium and beat in eggs 1 at a time, then beat in raisins and zest. Continue to beat until dough is smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. (Dough will be very sticky.)
- Butter kugelhopf mold with remaining tablespoon butter. Put 1 almond in each depression in bottom of mold (the almonds are only decorative; you can skip them altogether if your mold has no depressions), then scrape spoonfuls of dough evenly into mold (dough will be very elastic). Cover top of mold with oiled plastic wrap and a kitchen towel and let dough rise in a warm place until it fills pan, about 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Remove towel from kugelhopf and gently peel off plastic wrap. Bake kugelhopf in middle of oven 15 minutes, then loosely cover mold with foil and continue to bake until golden and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes more. Cool in pan 2 minutes, then invert cake onto a rack to cool completely, about 1 hour. Dust with confectioners sugar.
CHOCOLATE KUGELHOPF
The only thing better than a slice of chocolate kugelhopf is one that's been toasted and spread with sweet butter.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
Time 3h30m
Yield Makes one 10-inch cake
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Dough: Bring milk almost to a boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat, and stir in butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and salt. Transfer to a large bowl, and let cool until lukewarm, 3 to 5 minutes. Add 1 1/2 cups flour and the yeast, and beat with a mixer on low speed. Beat in eggs and egg yolk, 1 at a time. Beat in remaining 3 cups flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Transfer dough (it will be sticky) to a lightly floured surface, and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes. Place in a buttered bowl, and turn to coat. Cover with plastic wrap, and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down dough, knead a few times, and let rest 10 minutes. Roll out into a 14-by-22-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface.
- Filling: Mix together brown sugar, raisins, and chocolate. Brush butter on dough, and sprinkle filling on top, leaving a 1-inch border.
- Starting from a long side, roll up dough; cut crosswise into 12 slices. Place 6 slices flush against the side of a buttered 10-inch tube pan. Place remaining 6 slices, cut sides together, around tube of pan. Cover, and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake cake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Unmold, and let cool completely on rack, about 1 hour. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.
KUGELHOPF
This is supposedly a recipe that Marie Antoinette took with her from Austria to France, where it became increasingly popular. It is traditionally baked in a special Kugelhopf mold, which gives it a festive look (it can be made in a tube pan) Thus it makes a delightful holiday bread. Kugelhopf is an excellent coffee cake or breakfast bread, especially with fresh butter and honey. It can also be served topped with fruit, and makes delicious toast indeed. I seached for this recipe for many years and finally found a Canadian Chef on the internet who was kind enough to give me this one... I get excited over this recipe because I am now 67 yrs old and I can remember my German Grandmother sitting at the kitchen table when I was 5 years old, beating this dough with a wooden spoon...what a wonderful memory and taste !!!
Provided by grannymars
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 3h55m
Yield 1 cake, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Dissolve the yeast with the sugar in the warm water and let it proof.
- Sift the flour, putting 2 cups in each of two bowls.
- Set one bowl aside.
- Work together 2 cups of flour and the soft butter (this may be done in the electric mixer).
- Mix in the salt and the eggs, one at a time, beating until very thoroughly incorporated.
- In alternate batches, add the remaining 2 cups flour and the yeast mixture.
- Mix in the electric mixer or with a wooden spoon until thoroughly blended and elastic, then stir in the raisins.
- Put in a large, lightly floured bowl, cover with a towel, and let rise in a warm, draft-free spot until doubled in bulk, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
- Punch the dough down.
- Heavily butter a standard 10-inch Kugelhoph mold or a 10-inch tube pan and sprinkle half the sliced almonds around the bottom of the mold (the butter will make them adhere).
- Pour or spoon half the dough into the mold, sprinkle in the rest of the almonds, and add the remaining dough.
- Let rise again until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 475 degrees F.
- for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees and continue baking until nicely browned, about 40 to 45 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let stand for 3 minutes in the pan, then invert onto a cooling rack.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 495.5, Fat 18.6, SaturatedFat 8.8, Cholesterol 170, Sodium 1030.1, Carbohydrate 69.5, Fiber 3, Sugar 18.6, Protein 13.2
AUSTRIAN GUGELHUPF (YEAST-RISEN COFFEE CAKE)
Make and share this Austrian Gugelhupf (Yeast-Risen Coffee Cake) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by ratherbeswimmin
Categories Breads
Time 2h45m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Thickly butter a 6-8 cup gugelhupf pan (or other decorative tube pan).
- Make the sponge: warm the milk over low heat in a small saucepan until it is just lukewarm, about 100°.
- Transfer milk to a small bowl; whisk in yeast.
- Stir in the flour and cover the bowl with plastic wrap; let the sponge rise until very puffy, about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, stir together the raisins and rum; let raisins soak in rum while you prepare the dough.
- Make the dough: use an electric stand mixer with paddle attachment-beat the butter with the sugar and salt on medium speed until soft and light, about 2-3 minutes.
- Beat in the lemon zest and vanilla.
- Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, beating smooth after each addition.
- Stop mixer and scrape the sponge into the bowl; beat on lowest speed until incorporated, about 1 minute.
- Drain raisins well, reserving the rum; beat the rum into the dough, then beat in the flour.
- Beat the dough for 2 minutes on lowest speed, then stop the mixer and let dough rest for 10 minutes.
- Beat the dough on medium speed until it is smooth and elastic, about 2 additional minutes.
- Decrease speed to lowest and beat in the raisins and the chopped almonds.
- Scrape the dough into a buttered bowl and turn it over so that the top is buttered.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise until it just begins to puff, about 20 minutes.
- Prepare mold: scatter the sliced almonds all over the buttered inside of the mold, rotating the mold to cover the buttered surface evenly with almonds.
- Invert to mold to remove any of the almonds that have not stuck to the butter.
- Using a large rubber spatula , carefully scrape the dough into prepared mold-try to avoid disturbing the sliced almonds.
- Cover the mold with a towel or piece of buttered plastic wrap and let the dough rise until it is doubled (if using a 6-cup mold, the risen dough should reach the top of the mold; if you are using an 8-cup mold, the risen dough should reach about ½ inch short of the top).
- About 15 minutes before the gugelhupf is risen, set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375°.
- Bake the gugelhupf until it is well risen and deep golden, about 40-45 minutes; pick should come out clean.
- Cool gugelhupf in pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then invert it onto the rack, remove the mold and cool completely.
- Serve: use a sharp serrated knife to cut into slices; storage: keep wrapped in plastic.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 219.8, Fat 10.7, SaturatedFat 4.5, Cholesterol 51.6, Sodium 107.5, Carbohydrate 26.2, Fiber 1.7, Sugar 7.2, Protein 5
Tips:
- Make sure to preheat your oven to the correct temperature before baking the Kugelhopf. This will help ensure that the cake bakes evenly.
- Use a bundt pan with a removable bottom to make it easier to remove the cake from the pan.
- Grease and flour the bundt pan thoroughly before adding the batter. This will help prevent the cake from sticking to the pan.
- Be careful not to overmix the batter. Overmixing can make the cake tough.
- Bake the cake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting it onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Dust the cake with powdered sugar or glaze it with a simple glaze made from powdered sugar and milk.
Conclusion:
The Austrian Kugelhopf is a delicious and festive cake that is perfect for any occasion. It is a relatively easy cake to make, and the results are always impressive. With its beautiful shape and delicate flavor, the Kugelhopf is sure to be a hit with everyone who tries it.
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