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Vegan Chimney cake recipe | Kürtőskalács recipe

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A traditional Street food snack from Hungary, chimney cake aka Kürtőskalács is made from sweet yeasted dough and is baked in a cylindrical shape with a hollow center.
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Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting time 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Bread, Cake
Cuisine Hungary
Servings 3 rolls

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 200 ml

    FOR ACTIVATING YEAST

    • 1/2 cup milk of your choice (used plant milk)
    • 1/4 cup powdered sugar of your choice (used bura sugar)
    • 1 tsp yeast (used active yeast)

    FOR KNEADING DOUGH

    • 1.5 cup whole wheat flour (or all purpose flour)
    • 2 tbsp butter (we used vegan butter)
    • Pinch of salt
    • Milk of your choice to knead the dough (used plant milk)

    ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS

    • 1/4 cup sugar of your choice (used cane sugar)
    • Butter as required (used vegan butter)

    Instructions
     

    • Take luke warm milk in a bowl and add sugar and yeast. Mix.
    • Let it rest for 10-15 minutes until yeast turns frothy and bubbly.
    • Add butter and salt, mix.
    • Add flour and mix it well.
    • Knead it for 10 -12 minutes into a dough using milk.
    • Grease the bowl and dough and cover the dough and put it for fermentation for 2 hours at some warm place in the kitchen.
    • In the meantime take rolling pins. We have one card roll (left after butter paper was finished) which we also used in this recipe.
    • Prepare them by wrapping in aluminium foil. Keep aside.
    • After 2 hours, dough must have been doubled in size.
    • Knead it for a minute.
    • If you have a wider surface then roll the entire dough in one go into 4mm rectangular shape and if don't have enough space, then divide the dough in parts and roll each part into a rectangle.
    • Cut the dough into long ribbons of about ½ inch (13 mm) width using pizza cutter.
    • Brush the aluminium foils with melted butter.
    • Wrap one end of the dough ribbon around the rolling pin. Where one ribbon ends, attach the second one and so on until whole pin ends. Tuck in the end so the dough doesn’t wind off. (Watch video attached to this post for better understanding).
    • Then roll the whole pin slightly on the counter top to flatten the ribbons.
    • Brush the ribbons with melted butter.
    • Sprinkle sugar over the ribbons. Either you can roll the pin into sugar.
    • Bake in pre-heated oven @190°C/374°F for 25-30 minutes in the middle rack with both the rods on. Turn their sides in between.
    • Once the ribbons turn brown, take them out and brush with melted butter.
    • Carefully remove the cake from the pins and alumunium foil.
    • Let it cool and the chimney cake is ready.
    Keyword chimney cake, Kürtőskalács, vegan chimney cake