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Buchty: Slovak buttery filled sweet buns

Name: Buchty: Slovak buttery filled sweet buns
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1 cube (42 g) Fresh yeast; 2 tsp Granulated sugar; 300 ml Milk; 200 ml Water; 800 g Semi-coarse wheat flour; 200 g Butter; 100 g Powdered sugar

These buttery yeast buns have a filling of your choice and bake nestled together for 20 minutes at 200°C (400°F). Makes 8 servings.

Slovak cuisine · Grandma’s recipes · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Temperature: 200 °C (400 °F)
Servings: 8 servings
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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These buttery yeast buns, called buchty in Slovak, taste like doughnuts but are arranged snugly together like a cake. The dough, made with semi-coarse wheat flour, milk, water, and a fresh yeast starter, rises for half an hour before being shaped into balls about 4 cm across. Each ball is rolled out, filled with a filling of your choice, sealed, and placed snugly against the others in a baking pan. The buns serve eight and bake for about 20 minutes at 200°C (400°F), with butter and powdered sugar adding the finishing touch.

Ingredients

8 servings

Fresh yeast 1 cube (42 g)
Granulated sugar 2 tsp
Milk 300 ml
Water 200 ml
Semi-coarse wheat flour 800 g
Butter 200 g
Powdered sugar 100 g

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Instructions

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Stir the yeast and granulated sugar into 100 ml of warm milk and let stand until a frothy yeast starter forms.
Combine 400 g of the flour, 200 ml of milk, 200 ml of water, and the yeast starter. Gradually add the remaining 400 g of flour, stirring constantly.
Knead into a smooth dough and let rise for half an hour. Shape into balls approximately 4 cm in diameter, roll each one out, place a filling of your choice in the center, and seal the dough around it. Arrange the buns snugly together in a baking pan.
Melt 200 g of butter with 100 g of powdered sugar and pour the mixture over the buns in the pan. Let rise for another 20 minutes, then bake at 200°C (400°F) for 20 minutes.

Tip: Use a baking pan with high sides, as the butter and sugar could overflow a shallow pan and burn on the oven floor. Pinch the dough edges firmly together over the filling so the buns do not open as they rise.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 621 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbohydrates: 93 g
of which sugars: 15 g
Fat: 22 g
of which saturates: 13 g
Fiber: 3.1 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Pečené maslové buchty z kysnutého cesta