Aranygaluska (Golden Pull-Apart Cake)

Styling by Shimrit Levy
Photography by Daniel Lailah

Aranygaluska is a Hungarian yeast cake made of balls of dough coated in nuts and sugar. Also called monkey bread, it’s not too sweet, and it’s perfect with a cup of hot tea on a freezing cold day.

YIELDS 1 ROUND CAKE

• 4 cups flour
• 1 Tbsp dry yeast
• 4 Tbsp sugar
• ¼ cup oil
• 1 egg
• 1 cup + 3 Tbsp water, divided

Assembly

• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
• ⅔ cup sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½–⅔ cup strawberry, apricot, or raspberry jam
• ½ cup (1 stick/100 g) melted butter or ½ cup oil

Prepare the dough: Place flour, yeast, and sugar in the bowl of your mixer and mix gently. Add the egg, oil, and half the water and start kneading while gradually adding the rest of the water. Knead well for 10 minutes to get a smooth dough.

Transfer the dough to a greased bowl and let rise for about an hour until doubled in volume.