Kürtöskalács or Baumstriezel

A Hungarian sweet treat, baked on a rolling device over fire.

But not at home. My rolling device was a rolling pin, covered in aluminium foil and sitting on a deep baking dish to be rolled around a couple of times in the oven.

This Baumstriezel is sold on most Christmas markets since the last coupke of years. It is either just covered with cinnamon sugar or filled with vanilla or chocolate cream.

It is made from a yeasty dough, which is cut in strips and rolled around the rolling device. It gets buttered and coated with sugar and baked. Then freshly down off the rolling device, covered in cinnamon sugar.

This baked goods are pretty expensive when you buy them at the Christmas market.

On different online platforms methods for homebaked Baumstriezel popped up. I wanted to give them a try.  

The first recipe I saw was with puff pastry. Proclaimed as the easier one. No so here at home. The dough did not stick to the rolling pin, but dropped in the baking dish. It tasted too flakey for me and did not look good.

A few days later I used a yeasty dough and put the strips solid on the buttered alu foil. Rolled in sugar and rolled 3 times during the baking time. Then rolled again in cinnamon sugar. It came off the rolling pin in 2 pieces, but that was good enough.

Since it was a yeasty dough, I could eat some of it the next day. 

You will need:

A sweet yeast dough

Butter

Sugar

Cinnamon