🥐 Chimney cake

Name: Chimney cake
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Hungary · Transylvania
Ingredients: 500 g flour; 7 g dried yeast; 250 ml warm milk; 2 eggs; 60 g sugar, plus 100 g for coating; 60 g butter, melted; 80 g walnuts, finely chopped; 2 tsp ground cinnamon, a pinch of salt

Origin: Hungary · Transylvania

450kcal

per serving · 150 g

300kcal

per 100 g

9 gProtein6 g / 100 g

15 gFat10 g / 100 g

74 gCarbs49 g / 100 g

Chimney cake (kürtőskalács) is a sweet yeast pastry wound in a spiral around a wooden or metal spit and baked while turning until the outside caramelises. It is brushed with butter and rolled in sugar, cinnamon and chopped walnuts. Pulled apart, it is crisp outside, soft and hollow inside, and steams like a chimney when fresh.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

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No pork

Not veganbecause of: butter

Contains glutenbecause of: yeast dough

Contains dairybecause of: butter

Not keto49 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk ⚠ Tree nuts

What it is made of

yeast doughsugarwalnutcinnamonbutter

Recipe

6 servings150 min

Ingredients

500 g flour
7 g dried yeast
250 ml warm milk
2 eggs
60 g sugar, plus 100 g for coating
60 g butter, melted
80 g walnuts, finely chopped
2 tsp ground cinnamon, a pinch of salt

Method

Mix the flour, yeast, warm milk, eggs, 60 g sugar, half the butter and the salt into a soft dough. Knead and leave to rise for 1 hour.
Roll the dough into a thin strip and wind it in a spiral around a greased spit or foil-wrapped rolling pin.
Brush with butter and roll in the sugar mixed with cinnamon and walnuts.
Bake at 200 °C for 20–25 minutes, turning, until deep golden and caramelised.
Slide off the spit while warm and serve.

How to make it lighter

Share one cake — a whole chimney cake is several servings.
Use less sugar in the coating and more cinnamon.
Choose a version with less walnut and butter on the outside.

History

Kürtőskalács is associated with the Hungarian-speaking Székely communities of Transylvania, and is now a symbol of Hungarian street food. Spit cakes of this kind are also found elsewhere in Central Europe, and today it is sold at markets and festivals across the region.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →