23 December 2023

Fashion.at variation of a classic recipe for a dessert with supposed connection to a piece of clothing: 'Guglhupf' variation with orange and marzipan

The Guglhupf is known in English as Bundt cake. The translation misses one of the assumed origins of the original German name. Gugl may refer to the hood 'Gugel' worn by women and men in medieval Austria. The cake itself was known about two thousand years ago; the oldest molds for the cake were found in the Roman town of Carnuntum near Vienna. But history has many different stories and several possible ways to trace the origin of the 'Guglhupf' cake and its name. The histories of the sweet dish, served for breakfast or afternoon coffee or tea, tell stories - and perhaps legends - of its prominent fans, such as Marie Antoinette, who is said to have made the Austrian cake fashionable in France, or the story that the Three Wise Men, on their return from Bethlehem, baked a cake in the shape of a turban to thank their hosts in France. (An article on https://info.bml.gv.at/themen/lebensmittel/trad-lebensmittel/speisen/gugelhupf.html explores the history of the cake.) Another story is that of the Kaiserguglhupf from the Zauner pastry shop in Bad Ischl, Salzkammergut. The recipe was created by the actress Katharina Schratt for the breakfast of her good friend, Emperor Franz Joseph I. The 'Original Kaiserguglhupf' is still available at Zauner.

The Guglhupf is quick and easy to prepare and can be varied easily. Fashion.at created a version of the classic recipe for a Guglhupf with orange and marzipan, but with less sugar and more marzipan, orange and almonds.

Ingredients:
6 eggs
200 g marzipan paste
6 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons grated orange zest
1 dash rum
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
250 g very soft butter
1 package vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
250 g flour
100 g ground almonds
1 package baking powder

Preparation:
Separate egg whites and yolks
Beat egg whites and vanilla sugar until stiff
Mix marzipan, orange juice, orange peel, rum and cinnamon together
Stir egg yolks into marzipan-orange mixture
Mix flour, baking powder, salt and almonds
Add the marzipan-orange mass and butter to the flour-almond mixture and stir in the egg snow

Grease the pan first with butter and then with flour
Pour the dough into the mold
Bake in the oven, top and bottom heat, 180° C, for about 60 minutes.