A cross between a bread and cake, this no knead apricot orange Kugelhopf yeast coffee cake is packed with chopped dried apricots and brushed with an orange apricot preserve.
I have always been interested in other countries’ cuisines. There’s something always new to discover through their traditional meals and it makes me feel I’m on a world-wide adventure while still in my kitchen.
Romanian cuisine is not as well known as others and we don’t really have too many “dishes” we can call ours, lots of them are found throughout Europe under different names.
Kugelhopf (in Romanian guguluf) is a no knead coffee cake, originally from Austria, Swiss and South Germany baked in a special bundt pan, most of the time packed dried fruits and nuts and cherry brandy. I left out the cherry brandy and chose to give my Kugelhopf a summery flavor. Dried apricots, orange zest, chopped almonds and freshly ground cardamom seemed fitting.
The recipe for this apricot orange Kugelhopf coffee cake comes from Red Star Yeast. I didn’t change almost anything to their recipe, except brushing it once done and cooled with some apricot preserve mixed with freshly squeezed orange juice for an extra flavor instead of the orange glaze found on Red Star Yeast website.
Apricot orange Kugelhopf recipe
Being a cross between a bread and a cake makes it perfect to be taken to a picnic. And I’m not taking this apricot orange Kugelhopf to any picnic, but one in the company of some amazing food bloggers.
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