Kleinur

Twisted donuts

Ingredients

1 kg vegetable fat (for deep-frying)

300 g wheat flour

125 g sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp hartshorn salt (ammonium carbonate)

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cardamom

1 tsp grated orange peel

60 g skyr

1 egg

40 g margarine

Preparation 

Slowly melt the vegetable fat over medium heat in a large saucepan.

Mix the flour with sugar, baking powder, hartshorn salt, salt, cardamom and grated orange peel in a bowl. Make a hollow in the middle and add the skyr, egg and margarine. Then process everything into a smooth dough. 

Roll out the dough in portions on a floured work surface. 

Cut the rolled out dough into strips of about 2 inches (5 cm) width. Then cut at a 45° angle so that diamonds are created from the rolled out dough. Cut a slit in the middle of each diamond with a sharp knife (or a pizza cutter). Pull the ends of the dough piece through so that the whole thing is "twisted".

Then bake the twisted dough pieces in the hot fat for about 2 minutes, not more than 3 or 4 of them at once, turning them over if necessary. Be careful that the Kleinur do not bake too long in the fat - they darken afterwards!

Get the fried Kleinur with a spoon out of the hot fat. Drain on kitchen paper and let cool.

Kleinur, cinnamon rolls and "Happy Marriage" cake

Video (in German)