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Chimney Cake
Also known as: Kürtőskalács
Yeasted chimney cake with cinnamon sugar and a hollow centre.
About Chimney Cake
Jernej Kitchen’s kürtőskalács follows the Hungarian and Transylvanian chimney-cake form: yeasted dough wrapped around a cylinder, with a cinnamon-sugar exterior. Their home recipe uses an oven and retains rotation during baking.
Milk, egg and butter enrich the dough. Cinnamon sugar provides the chosen traditional coating, with chopped walnut selected from the optional nut finishes named by the authors.
The pastry has a hollow centre, a caramelized crisp exterior and a soft, light interior. The source presents it while still warm, when that contrast is most pronounced.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg.
Optional additions: Walnut.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chimney Cake
Jernej Kitchen’s cinnamon-sugar kürtőskalács with optional walnut.
- All-purpose flourBaseIngredient page not linked
- SugarSweetener
- Active dry yeastBinder
- MilkLiquid
- EggBinder
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- Ground cinnamonSeasoning
- Chopped walnutsTopping · Optional finish · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Dough and method-only surface dusting consolidated.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dough and coating allocations consolidated.
- Active dry yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Ground cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Chopped walnuts (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Walnut source-confirmed. Walnut selected from named optional nut finishes; chocolate spread excluded.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Hungarian Cuisine
- Szekely CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Hungarian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.