Kurtoskalacs (chimney cake) maker

Kurtoskalacs is the oldest hungarian pastry. It translates as chimney cake. It was origionally made by wrapping the dough around the chimney pipes. I ate it for the first time in Budapest this past summer. My mother ( who is 100% hungarian) told me she used to make it as a child with her parents. I made a Kurtoskalacs maker that we could use in our fireplace and on a fire pit.

Step 1 Supplies

The supplies consist of:

4 Angle (offset) 1/16" thick 3/4" x 48" Aluminum angle rods.
1 3 1/2" x 2' dowel (doesn't have to be exact diameter. the larger the better)
2 brass or steel rods (again size doesn't matter too much)
urethane glue (or any high temperature metal wood glue)
nute and bolts ( 1/2 inch length worked for me)

tools:
drill, sawzall, hack saw

Comments

[Ramirex]

You can find information of baking, ovens, bussiness. Visit

http://kurtoskalacssuto.lapunk.hu

for more

[Edmund24]

One can see good videos on how to make the Kurtos Kalacs on Youtube, "Making Kurtos Kalacs". I made one and it looked like this

[osceola]

http://www.kurtoskalacshungary.hu/en

[canida]

Neat! This sounds like a great alternative to roasting marshmallows over a campfire. I'd love to see pictures of the finished project, or your cake-maker in action.

[snug]

Here in Germany, the cake (extremely delicious) is called "Baumkuchen".

You can get pictures of a "making of" here :
http://www.cafe-schnibbe.de/konditorei/baumkuchen.html

[Dark_Helmet]

Is there any concern about the wood catching fire in the firepit? I've never had Kurtoskalacs, but they sound really, really good.

[adrian.hashizume]

i guess i should have been more specific, When you cook it you wanna cook it in the coals of the fire. You dont want it cooked over an open flame. You want that smoked flavor. No there is no concern about the wood catching on fire. I suppose if you have a roaring fire consuming the whole thing then yes eventually it will catch. But you would have burned dough on your hands.