Monday 20 August 2012

SUNDAY MORNING CHIMNEYS


A little tradition has developed in our family over the past few months which has been rather lovely.  Well actually rather delicious also.  Every Sunday morning my parents go to the Takapuna Sunday markets.  They bring these Hungarian delicacies to us from the markets and we absolutely love them! Here is a little information about them….

The worldwide famous Kürtöskalács is a traditional Hungarian pastry originated from Transylvania. A very funny renaming of the Kürtöskalács,  is on the web: the "Barbecued Chimney Cake".
Kürt is Hungarian for horn and kalács means milk bread.
These tasty Transylvanian treats are giant rolls made of dough covered with caramelized sugar and walnut, coconut and many other toppings. Kürtöskalács is made in smaller rolls too (the first two photos), so people can taste more flavors.

Woman baking Kürtöskalács at the market
Kürtöskalács dough stripes wrapped on the pin

Here are some photos of them making them at the markets.







We love the cinnamon and sugar coated ones but they come in all different flavours.  The kids like the hundreds and thousands sprinkled ones also.

Our kids call them chimneys (much to the Hungarian’s disgrace I am sure).  It is so cute I am starting to get early Sunday morning texts asking “what flavour Chimneys do you want today?” 

So here are some photos of our latest ‘Chimney’ deliveries.

We love you Mum and Dad for all you do!  Our kids will never forget little things like these!









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