Grandma's Homemade Kolaches Recipe!
Grandma made the best homemade kolaches in the world. She was 100% Czech and she knew the tips and tricks to make the perfect every single time. Here is her recipe and it is authentic and nothing short of amazing.
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Czech Koláčky
Traditional Czech koláčky with three fillings
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???? Ingredients for 16 pieces
For dough:
450g (1 lb) all-purpose flour
125g (4.4 oz) butter
100g (3.5 oz) sugar
3 egg yolks
250ml (8.5 fl oz) milk
15g (0.5 oz) yeast
2 tsp lemon zest
2 pinches of salt
For decoration and smearing:
2 egg yolks
flour
raisins
sliced almonds
butter
Poppy filling:
100g (3.5 oz) ground poppy seeds
200ml (6.7 fl oz) milk
1 egg white
1 tbsp (0.5 oz) honey
20g (0.7 oz) butter
1 tsp (0.16 oz) ground allspice
Cottage cheese filling:
250g (8.5 oz) high-fat cottage cheese
1 egg yolk
25g (0.8 oz) butter
4 tsp (0.64 oz) ground almonds
2 tbsp (1 oz) sugar
Plum jam filling:
150g (5.3 oz) plum jam
50ml (1.69 fl oz) rum
1 tsp (0.16 oz) lemon zest
1 tsp (0.16 oz) ground allspice
1 tsp (0.16 oz) cinnamon
Whisk together yeast, half of milk, 1 tsp (0.16 oz) sugar, and let rest for 15 minutes.
Melt the butter.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, yolks, lemon zest, and salt. Add the yeast mixture and the rest of milk. Whisk together, and add the butter. Knead until a firm dough is formed - it should not be very stiff.
Cover with a kitchen cloth and let rise for 4 hours.
???? Poppy filling: add the poppy into a small pot, pour in milk, add butter, bring to boil, and cook for 10 minutes. Add honey, allspice, remove from the heat, and stir in one egg white. The filling should be sweet.
???? Cottage cheese filling: whisk together cheese, egg yolk, sugar, butter and ground almonds. If you want to have more volume, whisk yolks with sugar separately.
???? Plum jam filling: whisk together plum jam, rum, add lemon zest, ground allspice and cinnamon.
Baking:
Divide the dough into pieces by 45-60 grams (1.5 oz - 2.1 oz). Form balls and wrap them in white flour. Cover with a kitchen cloth and let rest for 30-45 min.
Preheat the oven to 160°C/320°F.
Add the balls onto a baking form, and make circles with a steep dent in the middle by using a glass. The edges should be ~1cm (0.4 inches) thick.
Brush the edges with egg yolks and add the filling. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. When removed from the oven, brush the edges with melted butter, and decorate the cookies with raisins and sliced almonds.
Let cool and serve.
CZECH KOLACHE RECIPE: baking perfect Czech koláče the old fashioned way
Koláčes are as hot as it gets right now. From Texas to London’s East End, this sweet pastry is the cake choice of of the uber-cool. But in the Czech Republic, they've also long been the perfect partner to a cold beer, just one of the reasons we love them. But for the best koláče recipe, you need to go back to the source. Here in the koláče heartland near our brewery we learn the traditional, authentic way to make these incredible pastries. Read the full story at:
Or let us set the scene a little...
You might assume that koláče were only dreamt up a year or two ago in a trendy bakery somewhere in New York City – like that unholy food-fashion fusion the ‘cronut’. But in reality, these delicious, traditional Czech specialities have been a home-cooked kitchen table staple for many hundreds of years, migrating to the New World in the mid nineteenth-century with eastern European settlers in a move that would begin what has been a slow rise to worldwide fame. Yet despite becoming the latest designer pastry for many top bakeries, few would argue that uncovering the best koláče recipes and learning to cook them the traditional way still requires a trip back to the old country, back to where it all began.
Borovany, ten minutes drive from České Budějovice, is a great place to start – a small South Bohemian town famed for the blueberries that grow wild and plentiful here throughout the summer. I arrive to find it looking pretty under a midday July sun. Brightly painted buildings cluster around two central, dominating features: a handsome Augustinian monastery and impressive church. Wandering through a sun-drenched courtyard into the quiet, lawned gardens at the back of them, I’m greeted Edenka Brecková and Eva Tyrnerová, two masters at creating authentic koláče from scratch who are going to show me how its done.
Like most Czech koláče makers, neither of these warm, friendly, apron-wearing ladies is a ‘professional’ baker; rather they have long histories of cooking this delicacy for family and friends, both – they tell me – being by far the hardest audiences to please.
“I’ve been baking koláče for as long as I can remember,” says Eva as they spread a tablecloth over a wooden table under a willow tree and set up ceramic bowls and ingredients. “It’s just what we do here. You start at a very early age. I learned to make koláče from my mother and my grandmother, both of whom were excellent bakers.”
More recently, Eva and Edenka have branched from supplying just their nearest and dearest; they are committed to turning long lineages of expertise into something that helps the wider community. They are members of a Borovany baking circle, fittingly titled ‘The Traditions Club’. This uses the church hall behind where we’re standing as a base to create these outrageously good Czech delicacies, entering them into national koláče competitions and selling them to raise money for local charities.
And the secret to creating prize-worthy pastries? “Well,” says Edenka, “It always starts with the quality of the dough. Good leavened dough is essential. You have to get it right....
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✅ RECIPE INGREDIENTS
8 oz cream cheese
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
3 cups flour; plus more for rolling cookies
1 cup apricot jam or raspberry jam
powdered sugar for dusting
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