gugelhupf

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noun

A light, yeasted marble cake, traditionally baked in a circular bundt mould, and popular in parts of Europe.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

gugelhupf1

noungugelhupf (countable and uncountable, plural gugelhupfs)

plural gugelhupfs

  1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Gugelhupf.

    When the gugelhupf is almost completely risen, set a rack at the lower third of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.

    1995, Nick Malgieri, How to Bake: The Complete Guide to Perfect Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Tarts, Breads, Pizzas, Muffins, Sweet and Savory, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 404, column 1
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    With the back of a spoon make a small hollow around centre of gugelhupf – to keep the cake base more level when cooked.

    1989, Helen Clucas, Great Tastes of Australia, Viking, →ISBN, page 108

    When the gugelhupf is cold, dust lightly with icing sugar, then make the icing. Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and blend with enough rum to make a thin icing. Drizzle half of the icing over the gugelhupf.

    1993, Good Housekeeping, edited by Heather Rocklin and Sarah Bailey, Complete Book of Home Baking, London: Dealerfield, →ISBN, page 71, column 1

    However, if you arrived a quarter of an hour before that, and ordered your coffee and whipped cream, you didn’t have to pay the five-kreuzer supplement for the music, only the standard thirty for coffee and fifteen for a slice of gugelhupf cake.

    1998, Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The String of Pearls, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, page 102

    It would be a pity not to try something to eat – for a ‘lighter’ alternative many cafés serve slices of gugelhupf, a Viennese marbled madeira cake, a simply delicious companion to coffee.

    2002, Annabelle White, Seasons: A Year of Fabulous Food, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 91, column 2

    I baked gugelhupfs in great varieties with raisins or with coconut or with chocolate. There was always a gugelhupf in the house and as these cakes are so large there was plenty of it and who ever came to visit us was treated to a slice of it.

    2009, Adelheid Gomez de Vera, Adelheid: My Autobiography, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 190

Gugelhupf2

nounGugelhupf (countable and uncountable, plural Gugelhupfs)

plural Gugelhupfs · alternative gugelhupf · alternative Guglhupf · alternative kugelhof · alternative kugelhopf · alternative kugelhupf

  1. countableuncountableA light, yeasted marble cake, traditionally baked in a circular bundt mould, and popular in parts of Europe.

    What’s for after-school snacking at your house? Or to serve with tea or coffee when “the girls” drop by? / How about a slice of Gugelhupf — yeast-risen cake rich in eggs, fruit and deliciousness!

    1962 September 10, Dorothy Crandall, “They Pulled It out of a Hat: Call It Cake, Bread or Gugelhupf”, in The Boston Globe, volume 182, number 72, Boston, Mass., page 15, column 1

Origin

  1. GermanGugelhupf
  2. GermanGugelhupf
  3. EnglishGugelhupf

Borrowed from German Gugelhupf.

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