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Ingredients for 7 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 1 pack of yeast
• 90 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml milk
• 90 g butter
• 1 pinch of salt
• some butter, liquid, for spreading
• e.g. cinnamon sugar, cocoa or coconut sprinkles

Instructions

Working time approx. 25 minutes; Rest time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 5 minutes

sweet Baumstriezel from Hungary

The basic dough for the Baumstriezel recipe is a traditional yeast dough. Knead flour, yeast, sugar, eggs, a pinch of salt, and lukewarm milk into a smooth, non-sticky dough. While kneading, slowly add the melted, no longer hot butter. Place the smooth ball of dough in a floured bowl, cover with a kitchen towel, and set in a warm place for about half an hour to rise. Roll out the risen dough on flour until as round and thin as possible and cut into 1 cm wide strips. If you have small Baumstriezel holders for the oven: Grease each holder with butter. Wrap a strip of dough around each Baumstriezel holder so that it overlaps. Gently press down the excess. Brush the Baumstriezel with melted butter and bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius (400 degrees Fahrenheit) top and bottom heat on each side until nicely browned. This takes about 10 minutes. If you don’t have a Striezel roll holder, you can also use a wooden rolling pin with handles. Wrap it completely in aluminum foil and butter it. Then, as with the smaller Striezel roll holders, roll up a strip of dough, only make the strip longer. Place the rolling pin over a suitable baking dish so that the dough doesn’t touch anything and rotate it during baking to ensure it browns nicely all over. While the Striezel rolls are still hot, immediately brush them with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, cocoa powder, or coconut flakes. Then carefully remove the Striezel rolls from the wooden sticks and let them cool slightly. The Striezel rolls taste best when still warm, but we think they’re also delicious cold. A closer look at the original would be baking the Striezel rolls on a charcoal grill.