My Family's Recipe for Kolache (A Slovak Walnut Roll)
Every year for Christmas, my family enjoys this recipe for kolache, a Slovak walnut roll. We also have it at Easter, but Christmas is when it's the real star of the show.
Typically, we eat this kolache at all times of the day. At Christmas, we serve it with dessert, but you'll also find us enjoying a slice at breakfast or lunch too. Gotta love those recipes you can eat all day!
Learn how to make the dough and roll it all up with the filling of walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon. It's pretty easy to make, but it tastes wonderful!
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The Greatest Pigs In A Blanket Recipe Ever (Sausage Kolaches)
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This is the only pigs in a blanket style recipe that you will ever need. One of the best kept secrets in Texas is the Czech influenced and humble kolache properly addressed as Klobásník. It's essentially a sausage that has been wrapped in an incredibly soft and buttery kolach dough (slighly similar to a pain au lait). An undefeated combo.
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Texas Recipe for Kolaches
This recipe is near and dear to my Czech heart! It is my recipe for Kolaches and if you've never been to Czech Stop in West, Texas then you are missing out. West is a small town between Waco and Austin.
I hope you love these puffy little pastries!
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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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Traditional Kolache Recipe – Tradiční Koláče - Czech Cookbook
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How to Make Cream Cheese Kolaches / Twisted Mikes
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This cream cheese kolaches recipe is easy to make. You just need to be a little patient while allowing the dough to rise. This delicious recipe is a Czech pastry recipe that is sure to please everyone. The sweet dough filled with a cream cheese mixture. You can add jelly to the center as well. You decide. We hope you enjoy the recipe.
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Ingredients needed:
Pastry
10 tbsp melted butter
1 egg plus 2 egg yokes
1 cup whole milk
3.5 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1.5 tsp salt
2.25 tsp active dry yeast
Cream Cheese filling
6 oz cream cheese
3/4 cup ricotta cheese
3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp lemon zest
Coat the roll with the mixture of
1 tbsp milk
1 beaten egg
crumb topping
2 tbsp plus 2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp plus 2 tsp flour
1 tbsp of cold butter cut into 8 pieces
please watch video for instructions