Chimney&More is a dessert shop at 70 Daldy Street in central Auckland, rated 4.6 from 177 Google reviews. Customers compare its soft, warm chimney cakes to ones they have eaten in Hungary, and many say they found the place through Instagram.
A good chimney cake — kürtőskalács in its Hungarian homeland — is baked on a rotating spit, forming a caramelised, sugar-dusted spiral around a hollow centre. Texture is the whole point: it should pull away in ribbons, crisp outside and cloud-soft within, which is why the best shops bake in small batches and serve them warm from the oven. Coatings run from cinnamon sugar to chocolate-hazelnut spreads, with ice cream or savoury fillings tucked into the hollow. Whatever the topping, eat it within minutes of purchase — the crust waits for no one.
By the reviews, that is what this Daldy Street shop delivers, with one early Sunday visitor calling its cinnamon sugar chimney cake with Bueno absolutely incredible.