I made a variety of different chocolate Gugelhopf's. Sweet, buttery and with double chocolate.
A Gugelhopf is a big cake and has a distinctive ring shape or the shape of a torus. It is usually eaten with coffee/tea.
Where I live in Switzerland, we say "Gugelhopf", but after Wikipedia there are a lot of different names: --> Gugel- is supposedly a variation of the Middle High German gugel ('hood'), while -hupf is a variation of Hefe ('yeast'). Popular etymology says that the -hupf part comes from the German word hüpfen (to jump), as the yeast dough literally "jumps out of" the cake pan.
It is spelled kuglóf in Hungarian, kuglof (Cyrillic: куглоф) in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian, Kugelhopf in Alsatian, kouglof in French and guguluf in Romanian. In Western Slovenia, it is also known as kuglof, and in Central and Eastern Slovenia, kugluh. In Upper Austria it is known as Wacker or Wacka. It is called bábovka in Czech and Slovak, and babka in Polish. In Slovenia, the standard word is šarkelj.
The food and your presentation are absolute perfection, but it is your lighting that is the most impressive. You really have a talent for creating these beautifully-lit shots. I always wonder how you set it all up. FAV
@lynnz Thank you Lynn, for this very kind comment. I explaned the set-up and lightning in this post. It is often very similar to this: http://365project.org/mona65/2015-plan-b-alb/2016-08-30 Most of my food shots are set up on our eating table, with only natural light from a big window on the right. In this particular shot today and because of really darkish, dull and foggy day with little light from the outside, I had the eating table lamp on. Made a nice reflection bokeh on the Gugelhopf pan too.
Good to hear all those names - the letter 'k' being predominant! Made from yeast I presume and light and full of flavour! Your cooking is as good as your photography!
