Kugelhopf (Tuesdays with Dorie)

Kugelhopf with Dried Blueberries

For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie, Yolanda of The All-Purpose Girl selected Kugelhopf. You can find the recipe on Yolanda's site or on pages 61-63 of Dorie's book: Baking: From My Home to Yours.

Light and airy with a touch of melted butter & sugar on top

The brioche-like batter went through the motions...and there was lots of motions. I can't imagine making this without the KitchenAid mixer (and I know there are some TWD bakers who did! My arms are off to you!) When you have to let the dough mix for 10 minutes, my machine was shaking more than the wall clock in a honeymoon suite.

I began Sunday afternoon and felt like I was slapping dough for hours on end. In order to bring this into work, I set the alarm for 2:30 am so I could pop it into the pan and let it go through the final rise. As I was padding through the dark house, I came to really appreciate bakers and the time they spend making bread! Went back to bed and woke up to a nicely risen dough! A quick pop in the oven and voila! Kugelhopf!

I didn't have a Kugelhopf pan (just can't add more hardware to the shelves) so I used my pretty Bundt pan. It presents a mean lemon cake (here) and pound cake (here).

I followed Dorie's recipe but subbed dried blueberries for the raisins. Recently, the nice folks at Oh Nuts! offered me some dried fruits and nuts, and they sent me some delicious dried blueberries, pine & mac nuts. They are really glorious. I have lots of plans for these ingredients and will write more about them soon! Be sure to check out Oh Nuts! - they have several storefronts in New York but offer everything yummy through mail order.

Check out the other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers and the different ingredients they put into their bread! Next week, rice pudding! Oh yes!