RECIPES: Traditional Hungarian chimney cake alternatives

One of the favourite pastries of Hungarians and foreigners visiting the area is the delicious chimney cake, usually available at fairs. You can find many homemade versions on the internet, whether the regular shape rolled up in aluminium foil or beer cans… or creative alternatives, such as in the form of rolls and muffins. Check out the incredible recipes for the latter two!

Rolls with a little twist

This special dough is made from a base of cream cheese. The choice is yours: you can dip them into sugar, hazelnut, almond, coconut and walnut, enjoying the flavour in, between, and on top of the rolls all at once.

The measure is the standard 2.5 dl mug.

Ingredients for 64 small rolls:

• 20 dkg Mascarpone or other cream cheese
• Two and a half cups of flour (32 dkg)
• 20 dkg butter (soft!)

For the rolling:

• 3/4 of a cup of ground hazelnuts (6 dkg), walnuts, almonds or a cup of coconut
• 3/4 of a cup of granulated sugar (12 dkg)

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Preparation:

1. Knead the mascarpone, butter and flour into a smooth dough and put it in the fridge overnight or for at least an hour and a half.
2. Then make four dumplings from the dough.
3. On a baking board, pour about 1/4 of the sugar and hazelnut mixture. Roll out the first dumpling into a circle as thin as possible. Turn it over a few times to make sure that there is enough on each side.
4. Cut the circle into 16 slices and roll them up into buns, one at a time. In the meantime, place the dough in a way that you can still get some hazelnut in it.
5. Do the same with the rest of the dumplings and bake them in a 180-190 degree oven on the bottom-up baking programme for 15-20 minutes until they turn golden.

Chimney cake muffins

Just mix it up like a pancake dough, and the result is a soft, puffy sponge cake, spread with melted butter and sprinkled with cinnamon, cocoa, nut or vanilla sugar.

The measure is the standard 2.5 dl mug.

Ingredients for 20 medium-sized muffins:

• 3 cups of white flour (38 dkg)
• 3 teaspoons of granulated sugar (20 dkg)
• half a cup of cooking oil (1.25 dl)
• 2 eggs
• 1 packet baking powder (10 g)
• one and a 1/3 cups milk (3.5 dl)

For the topping:

• about 5 dkg melted butter
• vanilla sugar, sugar mixed with nuts, cinnamon or cocoa to taste

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Preparation:

1. Mix the sugar with the eggs until whipped, then add the oil, flour, baking powder and finally, the milk.
2. Spoon the dough into muffin tins lined with muffin paper. Fill the paper muffin tins about two-thirds full.
3. Bake them at 190 degrees until pale golden, then brush them with melted butter and sprinkle with the sugar mixture.

You can read the recipe of the chimney cake rolls in Hungarian here. For the chimney cake muffins recipe, click here.

Source: rupanerkonyha.hu