diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/new.py b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/new.py
index d2f7179b45b4..e7dbee894314 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/new.py
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/new.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def new(
         )
     )
 
-    _add = "	huggingface-cli login\n" if framework_str == "flowertune" else ""
+    _add = "	huggingface-cli login\n" if llm_challenge_str else ""
     print(
         typer.style(
             f"	cd {package_name}\n" + "	pip install -e .\n" + _add + "	flwr run\n",
diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
index 8c15739e92f6..8a4d49e7fd84 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "transformers==4.39.3",
     "sentencepiece==0.2.0",
     "omegaconf==2.3.0",
+    "hf_transfer==0.1.8",
 ]
 
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]