The best hungarian christmas fair dessert !!! Chimney cake is a sweet yeast dough coated in sugar and baked then covered with walnuts / cinnamon / coconut.
I can not believe this is the last recipe of 12 days of Christmas! I also can not believe it is Christmas Eve !!! Aaand this is the last recipe of 2017 !!! Whaaaat ?? !! Why? !! Did you like the 12 days of Xmas? I loved it soooo much. It was quite hard work but absolutely worthed it! Which one was your favorite recipe? Mine was probably the orange poppy seed meringue cake or the cinnamon roll cereal, that recipe was mindblowing !!!
On the 23rd of December we always go to the biggest Christmas fair in Budapest. It's a tradition and of course we have to try something new every year. But there is one thing we always eat ... chimney cake. It's just the best.
Let me tell you how it looks like at a Christmas fair. Usually it's baked on an open fire. The dough is rolled on a wooden rolling pin. It's covered in sugar that caramelize then after baking it's rolled into chopped walnuts or cinnamon sugar or coconuts.
It's the perfect street food that warms you up on a cold winter evening.
It always seemed quite difficult to make and it's typically what you buy and never make. But why? I do not know.
For one of my friends birthday we decided to make a chimney cake party. We made different fillings, and toppings. It was amazing.
Since I do not have original chimney cake pins I made smaller versions of beer / soda cans. I washed them out and covered them with aluminum foil. It was perfect. But you can also use your wooden rolling pin too.
To make the dough itself isn't complicated at all, but the baking process requires some patience and time. You can not leave the oven or they get burned. There is a tiny line between perfectly caramelized and burned cakes.
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve ... whaaaaat ?! I think everybody would be amazed with this special dessert. The outside is crispy but the inside is soft. It has an amazing caramel flavor with the additional topping.
Have a wonderful Christmas preparation!
Chimney Cake
Prep Time: 20 min. Baking Time: 20-30 min. Total Time: 2 hours Portions: 4-6 smaller chimney cakes
Ingredients:
- 150 ml of milk - 1 teaspoon active dry yeast - 1.5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar - 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract - 1 egg - 25 g of melted butter - the zest of one lemon
Assembling:
- 25 g of melted butter - 100 g of granulated sugar - cinnamon sugar / shreded coconut / finely chopped walnuts
Directions:
In a small bowl warm up your milk, add 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar and the yeast. Stir them together and let it proof for 5-10 minutes.
In a large bowl of a standing mixer stir the flour, the rest of the sugar (1.5 tablespoons), the vanilla sugar and lemon zest together.
When the yeast mixture is proofed add it to the dry mixture, with the egg, and th emelted butter. Use the dough hook of the mixture and knead it for 5-10 minutes. It will be a bit sticky. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it's around 5-6 mm thin. Cut it into 2 cm wide strips with a pizza cutter.
Cover soda cans with aluminum foil. Cover them with melted butter. Or use a wooden rolling pin.
Start to wrap the strips around the soda cans, tucking the ends so they do not come of through baking. If the strip is not long enough use some more to cover the whole can.
Roll the whole thing slightly ont he counter top to press the strips together bt do not flatten the dough too much.
Brush it with melted butter
Roll into granulated sugar.
Preheat your oven to grill or 428 F / 220 C. Line a baking sheet with a pergament paper.
Place the rolls on the baking sheet. And start to bake them. Keep your eyes on them when one side of the rolls are golden brown and the sugar is caramelized turn them. Make sure every side is golden brown.
When they are all ready to coat them with sugar again or butter them and roll them into the other toppings.
Tap them of the molds. Serve them warm.
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