Kugloaf
Ingredients:
6 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar (my grandmothers original recipe has 3 cups of sugar. I can tell you adding the 3 cups makes the cake even more delicious, but 3 cups is a lot of sugar… if you have a sweet tooth I definitely recommend trying the recipe with all the sugar, it would make my grandmother very happy)
1 cup orange juice
1 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp lemon juice
3 cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cups of chocolate chips (optional)
Directions
Combine eggs and sugar with electric mixer
Add orange juice, oil, vanilla and lemon juice
Add flour and baking soda gradually
Combine throughly
Separate batter in half and add cocoa powder to one bowl, mix thoroughly
Preheat oven to 350 °
Grease and flour a bundt pan and add batter. Pour the batter with the cocoa on top and swirl with a knife
Sprinkle with chocolate chips
Bake for 1 hour
Once cooled remove from pan and serve with powdered sugar
Description
This is a Hungarian version of a pound cake. This was a staple at Sunday dinners and birthdays and Christmas growing up, it wasn’t a family get together if it wasn’t on the table. At the end of the night when we were packing up the leftovers everyone always had a big piece of it to take home with them. I know in our house it wouldn’t last more than a day before it was gone. It was something that was come to be expected on the table, so when it’s not there there are definitely comments about it. It’s a simple dessert that fulfills everyones sweet tooth.
The first time I made it I had no idea there was orange juice in it. I remember calling my mom and asking her if the recipe I had was right. She laughed and said “you didn’t know there was orange juice in it? I’ve made it at home before!” Apparently I always seemed to miss the part where she added the orange juice. The original recipe doesn’t have the chocolate swirl in it, that was something my grandmother added in herself. She had a real sweet tooth in case you couldn’t tell. When I was making the cake for this post I went through all the steps and had put it in the oven when I turned around and saw the baking powder sitting on the counter… I had forgotten to add it in. I poured the batter out and had to mix together all the beautiful swirls that I had just made.
