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Ready to make kürtőskalács at home?Here’s the recipe!Ingredients:• 500 g of 00 flour• 110 g of sugar• 10 g of brewer’s yeast• 60 g of butter• 2 eggs• 2 egg yolks• 300 ml of fresh milk• 1 teaspoon of cinnamonPreparationSift the flour into a large bowlmelt the yeast. In a glass with a little warmed milkLet the milk rest for 10 minutes and add it to the flour, and kneadSlowly add the milk and mix everything together.Add 40 g of sugar to the mixture, and one egg at a time, continuing to knead slowly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.Flour the walls of the planetary mixer, and let the dough rest for a couple of hours, covered with plastic wrap. When the volume has doubled in volume, place the dough on a floured surface, roll it out with a rolling pin-Cut strips of about 1 and a half centimeters long with a knife.Roll the dough into strips around an aluminum cannoli cylinder. Brush the dough on the cylinder with half of your melted butter.Cook the cannoli in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes at 180°C.Meanwhile, mix 70 g of sugar with the cinnamon in a bowl. As soon as they come out of the oven, brush the kürtoskalács with the remaining butter and sprinkle them with the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Finally, leave the cannoli to cool before taking it out of the mold and enjoying it.Once cooked, this Hungarian cannoli is sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, or poppy seeds, and eaten hot or cold, as you like. Already starting to smell it? These sweet chimneys can also be eaten while sipping a good grappa. Let’s try to redo in our kitchens the ancient Kürtoskalács recipe, a typical dessert of the ancient pastry shops of Budapest.HOW TO DISCOVER THE CITYThe Hotel Anantara New York Palace Budapest: let’s check the hotel’s proposals...

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