If you’re in Budapest, you’ve probably already gotten a whiff of the warm and inviting aroma of Hungarian chimney cakes. They’re hard to resist and they can dressed up with your favourite toppings:cinnamon, coconut flakes, and much more. So why not enjoy the thrill of baking your own chimney cakes. If you don’t know how, there’s no need to worry! This chimney cake workshop in Budapest will teach you everything you need to know.
What’s a chimney cake?
If you’ve been to Austria or Romania, the chimney cake might be familiar. Chimney cakes are a sweet pastry made from flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, yeast and salt (in this workshop you can make a vegan version) and they are traditionally Hungarian and known as Kürtőskalács.
Chimney Cake Workshop Budapest
Duration: 1 hr -1 hr 20 mins
Language: English
Address: Oktober 6.u. 6, 1051 Budapest, Hungary (Chimney Cake Shop)
Ticket: Reserve your spot
A few weeks ago, I decided to look for a chimney cake near me. Lo and behold, I found a chimney cake workshop right in the city center. I had had chimney cakes in the past but I thought it would fun to try my hand at baking one and maybe also snag a chimney cake recipe I could try later.
What to expect during the chimney cake workshop
The Chimney cake workshop was beyond fun! I went with a friend and we had to show up 10 minutes before the workshop started. Once it was time to begin, we were led downstairs where the equipment we’d need had been laid out. If you’re not a baker like me, this can be quite intimidating. Luckily, the host was amazing and she reassured us before we begun.
The workshop wasn’t crowded, which was perfect. I went with a friend, and there was a family of three from Poland.
We each got some yeast dough, a roller pin, oil, sugar, an apron and a few other utensils. The workshop begun with a brief history on chimney cakes and how they’ve evolved today.
Shortly after the intro (of the chimney cake and ourselves), we begun rolling out the dough and cutting it into pieces.
NOTE: In this Chimney Cake Workshop, you get to make 3 chimney cakes.
As we worked our doughs, our instructor checked in with everyone and gave us coloured baking pins so we could tell our chimneys apart.
Once the dough was stretched out. We greased our pins and carefully wrapped our dough around them. Once fully wrapped, we dressed our chimney cakes in sugar. And then it was time to bake!
While our first chimney cakes baked, we got started on the next chimney cake. We basically had to repeat the process until all three chimney cakes were complete. The fun part was having to choose toppings for our freshly baked chimney cakes.
The first chimney cake was a bit of a challenge but by the third, we each had the best chimney cake in Budapest!
We received certificates at the end of the workshop and also go the recipe to our vegan chimney cakes.
Where can I get the best chimney cakes in Budapest?
You can have the best chimney cake in Budapest from Chimney Cake Shop. Or better yet, you can make the best chimney cake in Budapest with their English, family-friend chimney cake workshop. All chimney cakes are vegan.
How do you say chimney cake in Hungarian?
Kürtőskalács. This is sounds a little like kurtosh kolach.
