Kolaches
If you are not from Texas, you may not know what these small bundles of yummy happiness are. So, I urge you to try one.
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▼KOLACHES RECIPE▼
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Ingredients:
•½ cup milk
•½ cup sugar
•1 teaspoon salt
•4 tablespoons softened + 4 tablespoons melted, unsalted butter
•½ cup warm water
•5 teaspoons yeast
•2 eggs
•5 ½ cups all purpose flour
•vegetable oil
•10 breakfast sausage links
•16 ounce cheese block
•cooking spray
Directions:
•Heat up the milk in a sauce pan until it begins to bubble.
•Remove the pan from the heat.
•Stir into the milk the sugar, salt and 4 tablespoons of softened butter until everything has dissolved in the milk.
•Let cool for 10 minutes.
•Lightly stir the eggs to break up the yolks.
•In a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment, mix together on medium the warm water, yeast, milk mixture, eggs and 2 cups of all purpose flour for about 2 minutes.
•Add ½ of a cup of all purpose flour and continue to mix. If needed, continue adding small amounts of flour until the dough is elastic.
•Once the dough is the proper consistency, lightly flour a flat surface.
•Knead the dough on the floured surface for 10 to 15 minutes. Add flour as needed if the dough is too sticky.
•Coat a large bowl with cooking oil.
•Put the dough in the bowl and roll it around in the cooking oil to coat the dough.
•Place a damp towel or plastic wrap over the bowl and let the bowl sit in a warm, dry area for an hour, or until the dough doubles in size.
•Preheat an oven to 350 degrees.
•Cut the breakfast sausage links in half. If the links are damp, pat them dry. Then, set the links aside.
•Cut the short sides of the cheese block into slices and set aside.
•Grease a baking pan.
•Roll the dough into a log and cut it into quarters.
•Place 3 of the quarters back in the bowl.
•Cut the dough that is not in the bowl into 5 pieces.
•Flatten 1 of the pieces with your palm to form a rough circle.
•Place a slice of cheese in the center of the dough.
•Place a sausage in the center of the cheese so that the long sides of the cheese and sausage are parallel.
•Wrap the dough completely around the cheese and sausage, forming an closed tube of dough with a sealed seam running down one side.
•Place the seam side down on the baking pan.
•Repeat steps 20-24 for the other four pieces of the dough.
•Take out another cut quarter of the dough from the bowl and repeat steps 19-26 until all of the dough is on the baking pan.
•Bake the kolaches in a 350 degree oven for 14 minutes, or until they are golden brown.
•While the kolaches bake, melt 4 tablespoons of butter.
•Brush the melted butter over the tops of the kolaches.
•Let cool for 2-3 minutes before serving.
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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FLAKY APRICOT KOLACHES: Hungarian kolaches with cream cheese pastry dough recipe!
Traditional Apricot Kolaches with cream cheese pastry dough are within your reach thanks to this easy tutorial by Professional Pastry Chef Lindsey Farr! Eastern European Apricot Kolaches, or apricot kiffles, are jam filled cream cheese pastry dough cookies often made around the holidays. These delicious, and adorable, cookies are often made as Christmas cookies, so earmark this recipe for your Christmas cookies recipes folder because fruit kolaches are where it’s at!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Apricot Kolaches
00:21 Make our dough and chill
00:56 Make our filling and cool
05:10 Roll out dough and cut
06:53 Assemble and bake
08:59 Time to try!
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Polish Kolaczki (Filled Cookies)
A soft rich dough filled with fruit preserves, nuts or poppyseeds. Kołaczki are a traditional favorite in Poland and Central Europe.
In this video, I walk you through making the dough, prepare a nut filling, and talk about other fillings you might use.
We’ll roll out the Kołaczki dough and talk about several options for cutting it into 2-inch squares. I’ll share tips to ensure your cookies stay folded over while baking.
You’ll want to include these for Christmas and your baking for other special occasions. I bake them ahead of time and freeze until the day I need them. Dust them with powdered sugar just before serving.
Ingredients for dough
1 1/2 cups butter (340g), softened
8 ounces cream cheese (225 g), softened
3 cups all-purpose flour (360 g)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream the butter and cream cheese. Incorporate the flour and salt. Chill the dough for at least an hour or over night. Roll the dough to 1/4-inch thick and cut into 2-inch squares. Put 1/2-1 teaspoon of your favorite filling to the center. Lift up two opposing corners, pinch them together with a dab of water. Fold the point to one side. Bake at 350 F (180 C). Cool, dust with powdered sugar.
Nut filling Ingredients
8 ounces walnuts (225g)
1 cup sugar (200 g)
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Add a few drops of water (if needed)
Finely chop the walnuts with a knife or steel blade in a food processor. Add the sugar, egg white, and extracts. If you mixture is too dry (not coming together) add a few drops of water. Use for Kołaczki or other recipes.
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How to Make Delicious Homemade Kolaches
KOLACHES (written recipe below)
If you've never had a kolache, you're in for a real treat. Kolaches are enriched yeast rolls topped with a dollop of sweetened cream cheese and/or fruit jam (compote), sprinkled with streusel crumble, and baked to perfection.
Baking experience level: Intermediate, though an enthusiastic beginner could succeed.
Rising time: 2 1/2 hours
Bake time: 20-25 minutes
Ingredient prep time: 40 minutes
Cooling time: 20 minutes
Total time to table: About 4 hours
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RECIPE
Special Kitchen tools that would be nice to have handy: a dough scraper, a kitchen thermometer to measure milk/butter temperature, parchment paper, and a couple of sheet pans.
INGREDIENTS
DOUGH
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 (1/4-ounce) envelope active dry yeast
1 cup whole milk warmed to 100-110°F
1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 4 oz. stick), melted and cooled
3 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing the top of kolaches
EGG WASH
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon whole milk
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
8 ounces cream cheese (1 package), at room temperature
4 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
The juice from half a lemon.
STREUSEL CRUMBLE TOPPING
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
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DIRECTIONS
1. Make the dough.
• Add to a large mixing bowl, 1 cup whole milk warmed to 100-110°F (30 seconds on high in the microwave and cooled for a few minutes)
• To the milk, add 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast (or one 1/4 ounce packet)
• Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar. (I mistakenly say 1/2 a cup in the video.)
• Add 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
• Add 1/2 cup unsalted butter that's been melted and allowed to cool to room temp.
• Add 3 egg yolks.
• Gradually stir in the remaining 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
• Add 1 teaspoon of fine sea salt.
• Turn dough out onto a well-floured counter and knead for 8 minutes -- until it's smooth, slightly tacky. Please watch video (3:22) to see this process. Because this is a sticky dough, a dough scraper is an essential tool.
2. Cover the dough and let it rise 1-1 1/2 hours (until nearly doubled).
3. Portion the dough into 15 dough balls. I use a digital scale to make 60-gram dough balls.
• Use a pastry brush to brush the dough balls with two tablespoons of melted butter (cooled for a few minutes)
Step 4. Cover the dough balls and let them rise for 1 hour.
5. Preheat oven to 375˚F.
Make the filling/toppings.
• EGG WASH -- in a small bowl, combine 1 whole egg and a tablespoon of butter and whip with a fork until blended.
• CREAM CHEESE FILLING -- in a mixing bowl, combine 8 ounces room-temperature cream cheese, 4 tablespoons powdered sugar, 1 egg yolk, the juice from half a lemon. Stir briskly until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
• STREUSEL CRUMBLE TOPPING -- In a small bowl, add 1/4 cup granulated sugar,
2 1/2 tablespoons melted butter. Stir with a fork to combine. Gradually add 1/4 cup all-purpose flour and mash with the fork until the mixture looks cohesive but granular.
6. Shape, fill, and top.
• SHAPE-- Use your index and middle fingers on each hand to create a well in each dough ball (see video)
• EGG WASH -- use a pastry brush to lightly brush the egg wash around the rim of each kolache
• FILL -- Spoon about 1 tablespoon of cream cheese filling in the well of each dough ball. Do the same for the fruit filling. You may combine fruit and cream cheese.
7. On the middle rack of your oven, bake the tray for 10 minutes at 375˚F, turn oven down to 350˚F and continue baking 10-15 min. You want the kolaches very lightly browned on the top.
8. Cover with another sheet pan or tin foil and let cool 20 minutes before serving. This keeps some of the moisture in the kolaches.
Enjoy!
Tom
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Kolaches were brought to the U.S. from the 'old country' by Czech immigrants. In some parts of Texas (most parts), kolaches are more popular than doughnuts. There are a number of states and towns in the U.S. with a large Czech population; they know kolaches!
In Austin, we lived very close to a bakery specializing in kolaches -- it was hard not to visit too frequently ????
One of the most interesting things about kolaches is the soulful bakers who make them. Check these Youtube clips out:
Czech Kolaches are a Prized Texas Tradition
Nicholas Maresh -- a young man from Rosenberg, TX
Old Main Street Bakery
Kolache Queen | Nebraska Stories
Nadine Raceks (She has since passed away.)
Crazy Kolache Lady
Jodi Powers, Calvert, Texas (She has since passed away.)
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Recipe for Traditional Moravian Kolache
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I this video I show you how to make Moravian Kolache.
Yeast dough used in this recipe can be used for variety of sweet bread treats.
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FARMER'S CHEESE
Moravian Kolache(using a round cutter about 2.5inch across, makes about 20 kolache)
Dough
4cups flour
7tbl sugar
4tbl butter melted, cooled
4tbl oil
2egg yolks, room temperature
1egg, room temperature
1/2tsp vanilla extract
2 packages of dry yeast + 1/4 tsp
1cup warm milk
1tsp honey
4tbl butter - room temperature to soft butter, but not melted
Filling:
2 cups farmer's cheese, room temperature (how to make farmer's cheese)
2egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1egg-to make the egg wash
Prepare yeast mixture: into a small dish add warm milk, honey and dry yeast, whisk together and set aside for 5 minutes, until foamy on the top.
In the meantime, into the bowl of your mixer measure flour and pinch of salt.
In a small dish melt butter and combine it with oil, set aside.
In a small dish whisk together egg yolks, egg and vanilla extract, set aside.
Make a little well in the flour, pour yeast mixture in and then add butter an oil, egg mixture and sugar.
Using a hook attachment knead on low speed, dough is soft. Knead for about 2 minutes or so, before the dough forms the ball, add soft butter and knead until the dough gathers on the hook and sides of the mixer are clean.
Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead if with your hands for about 5 minutes until it comes to a nice ball.
Spray a bowl with nonstick spray or brush it with oil, add the dough into the bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let rise for about an hour.
You can also use your oven and let the dough rise there. Here is a little trick: bring 3 cups of water to boil, pour boiling water into a shallow dish. Place the dish with boiling water on the bottom rack in your oven and put the bowl with the yeast dough on the middle rack, just above the dish with boiling water. Close the oven door and watch the dough rise.
While the dough is rising you can prepare the fillings. I'm using farmer's cheese, you can also use ricotta cheese or jam,walnut filling, poppy seed filling etc.
Stir together cheese, sugar and egg yolks, stir until well combined. Set aside.
Once the dough has risen, punch it down and turn it out onto a floured surface, don't knead too hard, just very gently to gather the dough together, then you can divide it and roll it out into about 1/4 inch thick or so.
Line the baking sheets with parchment paper.
Preheat oven to 385F
Kolache with Topping: Cut out rounds( I used a cutter about 2.5inch across) and place them onto the baking sheet. Using a bottom of a small glass press the bottom into the rounds, creating a deep and wide well, fill the well with cheese. Let rise for 20-30 minutes.
Kolache with Filling and Topping , my grandmother used to make these : cut out rounds from the dough, then stretch the rounds a little and put the filling in the center, gather 2 opposite sides of the round and press them together meeting in the middle, repeat until you have a small pouch formed, place it onto the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Let rise for 20 -30 minutes, then using your fingers press gently in the center of kolache to create a small well, fill it with cheese.
You can also fill these with jam if you'd like, they are my favorite.
In a small dish whisk together egg to make egg wash.
Brush all the kolache with egg wash.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown on the top.
You can make these ahead of time, freeze them and enjoy them every morning with coffee or tea. Just pop them into the microwave for 15-30 seconds.