Alsatian Kugelhopf

My grandfather was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, when it was still part of Germany. Kugelhopf is the bread most associated with the area, similar to brioche because the same technique is used to make it, but a bit coarser and drier in texture. It is said to have been invented in Vienna, where it is a coffeehouse favorite known as gugelhugf. Marie Antoinette favored it, making it fashionable in eighteenth-century Paris. The famed Carême, her pâtissier royal, learned his re