Chocolate Kugelhopf Recipes

RAISIN CHOCOLATE KUGELHOPF

Steps:

• In a medium saucepot scald the whole milk and remove from heat.
• Stir in sugar, butter, salt, and vanilla.
• Transfer to your large mixer bowl and let cool to lukewarm.
• Using paddle attachment, low speed add 1 1/2 cups of the flour with the yeast.
• Stir in the eggs.
• Then stir in the remaining flour 1/2 cup at a time.
• Beat on medium speed until dough starts to come away from sides of bowl.
• Remove the dough from bowl to a floured surface.
• Knead briefly until smooth.
• Grease a clean large bowl, with soft butter, and place dough into bowl to rise untuil doubled covered loosely with a clean cloth.
• While dough is rising, prepare the filling.
• Place brown sugar, raisins grated chocolate well and set aside.
• Grease a 10 inch tube pan well, set aside.
• When the dough has doubled, puch down, knead a few times, let rest 10 minutes.
• Roll out into a rectangle about 14 x 24 inches.
• Spread the melted 2 tbsp. butter onto the rolled out dough.
• Sprinkle the filling on top of the butter, leaving about an inch around edges to seal.
• Roll up starting at long side.
• Cut into 12 equal slices.
• Place six slices on the out side of pan as lining the sides.
• Place the last rolls (with cut sides together) in the centre of pan.
• Cover loosely and let rise until dough reaches top of pan about another hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, Bake 45 minutes to 55 minutes-- Tester into cake should come away clean-- Remove from oven and turn out of the pan onto a wire rack.
• Let cool completely.
• Serve with a light dusting of confectioners sugar.
• Or wrap well in saran wrap and then foil and can be frozen for 4 months.

CHOCOLATE GUGELHUPF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180 Degrees Celsius.
• Spray a gugelhupf pan to grease.
• Using electric beater beat icing sugar, oil and vanilla sugar until smooth.
• Add egg yolks and mix until just combined.
• Mix in 1/2 the flour then 1/2 the milk. Repeat with the remaining. Mix until well combined.
• Using electric beater whisk egg whites until stiff.
• Gently fold through cake mix.
• Spoon half cake mix into container.
• Combine cocoa and extra milk in small bowl.
• Stir into remaining cake mix.
• Spoon into tin and using a knife fold together to get marbled effect.
• Bake in oven 1 hour until skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Cool and dust with icing sugar to serve.