Meanings
gugelhupf1
plural gugelhupfs
- 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 15 more examples
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 108When 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 1However, 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 102It 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 2I 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
plural Gugelhupfs · alternative gugelhupf · alternative Guglhupf · alternative kugelhof · alternative kugelhopf · alternative kugelhupf
- 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
- GermanGugelhupf
- GermanGugelhupf
- EnglishGugelhupf
Borrowed from German Gugelhupf.
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