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Gugelhupf
Also known as: Kugelhopf
Austrian ring cake marbled with cocoa and scented with vanilla, lemon and optional rum.
About Gugelhupf
Marmorgugelhupf is the marbled Austrian form of the tall fluted ring cake served in homes and coffee houses. This profile uses a butter cake batter divided into pale vanilla-lemon and cocoa portions before they are swirled together in the mould.
Butter, milk and eggs give the cake a mellow richness, with vanilla sugar and lemon zest brightening the pale crumb. Cocoa brings a gently bitter chocolate contrast, while an optional splash of rum can add warmth without defining the base cake.
The cake rises in a high fluted ring with a softly browned crust and a light sugar dusting. Each slice shows loose dark-and-pale waves through a fine, tender crumb that is substantial yet not dense.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Gugelhupf
Austrian Marble Gugelhupf.
- ButterCake richness and mould coating
- EggsBatter enrichment and aeration
- Wheat flourCake structure
- MilkBatter moisture and dairy richness
- Confectioners' sugarCreamed batter sweetness
- Icing sugarFinal surface dusting
- Vanilla sugarVanilla fragrance
- Baking powderChemical leavening
- Cocoa powderDark marble flavour and colour
- RumOptional warm aroma · Optional
- Lemon zestBright citrus fragrance
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Butter:
- Eggs:
- Wheat flour:
- Milk:
- Confectioners' sugar: . The complete commercial starch or anti-caking formula is not supplied.
- Icing sugar: . The complete commercial starch or anti-caking formula is not supplied.
- Vanilla sugar: . The recipe's preparation permits vanilla extract or sugar; its ingredient list fixes packaged vanilla sugar, whose complete flavouring and carrier formula are not supplied.
- Baking powder: . The complete commercial leavener formula is not supplied.
- Cocoa powder:
- Rum (optional):
- Lemon zest:
Origins & food traditions
Austria Tourism supplies the complete Marmorgugelhupf recipe selected here and identifies this marbled form as a classic of Austrian homes and coffee houses. The reference article independently identifies Gugelhupf as a ring cake associated with Austria and neighbouring Central European traditions and notes both yeast-raised and baking-powder cake versions.
Countries
- Austria
- AustriaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Austrian Cuisine
- Viennese Cuisine
- Austrian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.