Why does the Vanocka move, fall, or crack?

7. 10. 2025

There can be several reasons why your Christmas tree falls or falls during baking or sometimes even after baking. What is worth paying particular attention to?

• Thin dough – one of the common reasons for this, why you are not satisfied with the result, is the wrong consistency of the dough, more precisely, that the dough was too thin and thus “changed” its shape during baking. The right dough for Christmas should be smooth, firm, flexible, and non-sticky. What about thin dough? Add a small amount of extra flour to it.

• Over-risen dough – in general, we should let the Vanocka rise until it doubles in size, not longer.

• Insufficiently tightened bauble – another common reason the bauble unravels during baking is that we needed to pull it more during knitting.

• Unbaked Vanocka – when you take the Christmas out of the oven, you are happy with how it turned out this time, but when you return to the kitchen again, you find that your Christmas has fallen. It was probably not fully baked inside, and the cooling caused the unbaked dough to fall.

• Sudden movements with Vanocka – carefully handle Vanocka before and after baking. Sudden movements are unsuitable for it – do not move it too much before baking. And – cut the Vanocka into pieces only if it has completely cooled down.

• Rapid cooling – let Vanocka cool slowly at room temperature. Do not let the Vanocka near the opened window.

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