Kiortosh is a traditional Hungarian dessert consisting of a sweet pastry with a hollow inside, perfect for filling with ice cream or pudding. Over the last few years this pastry has taken over the Israeli street markets and become one of the most popular desserts.
While not the easiest to make at home, this version uses puff pastry to make it simple and if you have a rolling pin you can have some fun making it your own.
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Ingredients
Servings 4
Kiortosh pastry
- 1 sheet puff pastry
- ¼ cup melted butter or vegan butter
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1 cup chopped nuts of choice almonds, pistachios, walnuts, pecans are all perfect
Filling
- 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup heavy cream
- About 3 ounces sweetened vanilla pudding
- 1 cup chopped dried fruit of choice
- 3 ½ ounces chocolate melted
Nutritional Facts
Nutrition Facts
Homemade Kiortosh
Amount per Serving
Calories
1537
% Daily Value*
Fat
109
g
168
%
Saturated Fat
49
g
306
%
Trans Fat
0.5
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
18
g
Monounsaturated Fat
27
g
Cholesterol
154
mg
51
%
Sodium
431
mg
19
%
Potassium
320
mg
9
%
Carbohydrates
129
g
43
%
Fiber
10
g
42
%
Sugar
76
g
84
%
Protein
19
g
38
%
Vitamin A
8261
IU
165
%
Vitamin C
10
mg
12
%
Calcium
235
mg
24
%
Iron
6
mg
33
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Instructions
- Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and preheat oven to 350℉/180℃.
- Wrap a rolling pin with tin foil including the handles. Tighten it well and spread with butter or cooking spray.
- Cut puff pastry into thick strips lengthwise. Begin rolling strip by strip around the rolling pin as tight as possible with no space between strips. Roll gently to even it out. (see video)
- Brush melted butter over wrapped dough.
- On a large plate or bowl big enough to if the rolling pin, combine sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Roll the dough in the mixture using your hands to help cover the pastry well.
- Transfer the dough wrapped rolling pin to prepared sheet pan and place in oven. Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown and smelling delicious. Remove from oven to cool.
- Meanwhile prepare the cream filling. In the bowl of a mixer add mascarpone cream, heavy cream and pudding powder and whip until you get a nice thick mixture. Fold in dried fruit.
- Remove cooled pastry carefully from rolling pin. Cut kiortosh in half crosswise, spread melted chocolate inside each and fill with cream. Drizzle more chocolate over top and enjoy. You can also enjoy the pastry on it's own or on the side of the cream mixture.
Equipment
- Large rolling pin
- Tin foil
The recipe says that this serves 4, yet you are cutting it into only 2 pieces. Should the pudding be instant or pudding and pie filling (the kind you cook)? Do you cut the pastry strips lengthwise or widthwise? Do you wrap each strip around itself or down the rolling pin? Do you take the pastry off of the rolling pin to bake or put the rolling pin with the pastry in the oven? Thanks!
Check the video to help answer some questions, it is a confusing recipe to explain, but we will update as best we can given the comments. To answer your questions it should be instant pudding powder the kind you just mix with milk. You cut the pastry lengthwise and wrap it around while going down the pin not over itself. Bake it on the rolling pin and only remove once cooled.
Are you supposed to take the dough off the rolling pin or place it with the rolling pin in the oven? Your recipe is not very clear and doesn’t specify taking the dough off the rolling pin either before or after the oven.
Also, it says slice it lengthwise and fill. Do you then slice it into portions? Again, you are not being very clear, but the recipe says it’s for 4 portions. When do you cut it? The recipe says not to have spaces in between the raw dough strips, which seems to imply that it bakes into one long strip…
Check the video to help answer some questions, it is a confusing recipe to explain, but we will update as best we can given the comments. To answer your questions you bake the dough on the rolling pin and take it off after it is cooled. You cut it in half crosswise and fill and it's sort of shared between 2 people or a very hungry person.
If you mean sweetened instant vanilla pudding powder, please specify. We don't all live in the same country.
Ok thanks for letting us know that is what we mean so will update.