Cinnamon Roll

Imagine yourself walking passed a place with a strong smell of freshly baked breads and sweet cinnamons. You'd like to have one, don't you? That's what always occuring to me every time I walked out of Great World City's Cold Storage, usually after my grocery shopping. That little pastry stall sells various baked stuffs, with cinnamon as the main ingredient. Their cinnamon rolls have reminded me of Cinnabon, which unfortunately, absent from Singapore. Sometimes I quite miss them, I enjoy baked stuffs with cinnamon a lot and I'm the kind of person who has that sweet tooth.

So that day, I decided to get one for breakfast, the original flavour (there are some with nuts, chocolate and dried fruits). The sweetness is alright, it's balanced between the cinnamon and sugar but they're lack in moisture. Cinnamon rolls should've been soft, moist and milky, delicatedly sweet without being overly sweet. All I've got here is a simple bland bread roll with some cinnamon sugar. Sigh. It has made me miss Cinnabon even more.

Chimney Cake

Originally from Transylvania, this Kürtöskalács (translated as chimney cake) is a traditional Hungarian pastry that is wrapped around a spool which then cooked over an open fire. Famously known as Hungary's oldest pastry, this pastry is often served as a street food, usually eaten at Christmas markets and other festive occasions.

1/3 cinnamon sprinkled Chimney cake.

The dough is heavily coated with a sprinkling of sugar, which created a crispy, sugary sweet caramel crust. You can either choose to eat it just like that or coat them with some nuts or cinnamon. The word chimney came from the original process of making this pastry. The dough was said to be wrapped around the chimney pipes.

The hollow in the middle made the shape resembles a chimney.

I was surprised to find this pastry in Singapore. A Hungarian guy has been opening a stall in Takashimaya food fair selling chimney cakes ($3 for 1/3 of it) in 3 flavours: cinnamon, Oreo and almond. In the menu, I saw that they have choices of flavours for the dough too, which might be real at the beginning of their business, but they're using the same dough for any coating now. Though the dough should have been appear thinner, it taste really good, almost like a cinnamon roll.

Jo Napot Bakeries
Takashimaya Square (9th-19th July'09)
Ngee Ann City B2
391 Orchard Road
Singapore 238872