Czechia / Dessert
Trdelník
A ribbon of yeasted dough wound round a spit, baked and rolled in sugar and nuts.
Ingredients
- Plain flour500 g
- Warm milk220 ml
- Dried yeast7 g
- Sugar for the dough60 g
- Butter, softened80 g
- Eggs2
- Sugar for coating150 g
- Walnuts, finely chopped100 g
- Cinnamon2 tsp
- Salt1 tsp
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 6 steps
Dissolve the yeast with a spoon of sugar in the warm milk and let it foam for ten minutes.
Knead a dough from the flour, the yeast liquid, eggs, sugar and salt for ten minutes, then work in the soft butter piece by piece. Prove for an hour.
Roll the dough out and cut two-centimetre ribbons. Butter the spits and roll them in sugar.
Wind a ribbon round each spit, overlapping by a third and pulling it slightly taut. Roll it on the table so the layers bond.
Brush with butter, roll in the sugar, nut and cinnamon mixture and bake at 190 °C for eighteen minutes, turning every five.
Let it cool three minutes and twist it off the spit. Hot, it tears; fully cooled, it sticks.
