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Trdelník

Name: Trdelník
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Slovakia
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 150ml Milk; 1 Egg; 50g Butter; 40g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 50g Walnuts; 4 tbsp Granulated sugar; A pinch Cinnamon powder

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Dough wrapped around a rod, baked, and coated in sugar and walnuts — a tubular pastry from Skalica in western Slovakia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Trdelník is a tubular pastry known as a specialty of Skalica in western Slovakia: yeasted dough is rolled into long strips, wound around a wooden or metal rod, and baked while turning over charcoal. It's coated with sugar and walnuts and gives off a sweet, toasty aroma. Skalica trdelník is registered as an EU traditional specialty.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a festival in Skalica, dough wound on rods turns slowly over charcoal as people drawn by the sweet smell form a line.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Milk 150ml
Egg 1
Butter 50g
Sugar 40g
Salt A pinch
Walnuts 50g
Granulated sugar 4 tbsp
Cinnamon powder A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, egg, and half the melted butter and let rise 1 hour.
Roll the dough into long ropes 1cm thick.
Wind them in a spiral around a foil-wrapped tube and brush with melted butter.
Mix chopped walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon and coat the dough.
Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes, turning the tube partway through, cool slightly, and slide off the tube.

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