Kurtoskalacs

Name: Kurtoskalacs
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Hungarian
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; 1 cup milk; 1/3 cup sugar; 1/2 cup ground walnuts or cinnamon sugar, for coating

Kürtőskalács/KOOR-tush-kah-lahch/

Also known as: Chimney Cake

About this dish

A spiral pastry roasted over an open flame and coated in sugar and toppings, forming a hollow, chimney-shaped treat.

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Ingredients

🌾3 cups flour

🥛1 cup milk

🍬1/3 cup sugar

🌰1/2 cup ground walnuts or cinnamon sugar, for coating

Method

Serves 4

Make a soft, enriched yeasted dough and let it rise.

Roll into long strips and wrap spiral-style around a wooden roasting pin.

Roll the wrapped dough in sugar.

Roast slowly over hot coals or in an oven, rotating constantly, until golden.

Roll the hot pastry in ground walnuts or cinnamon sugar before serving.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Kürtőskalács has roots in Transylvanian Hungarian tradition, traditionally cooked by rotating the dough over hot coals.

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