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Authentic Czech Homemade Kolache Recipe

August 26, 2020 by My Farmhouse Table 7 Comments

I should start this post by saying, unfortunately I am not of Czech descent. As shown by my grandma’s recipe for spaetzle, my heritage is strongly German. That isn’t stopping me from sharing this Authentic Czech Homemade Kolache Recipe.

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Actually, I had never even heard of kolaches until a Kolache Factory opened behind my apartment when I lived in Omaha. After my first visit I was hooked!

Visits to that Kolache Factory became a weekend tradition.

Especially if I had any weekend visitors stop by. This was my place I would take any out of town guests. They quickly understood why.

Upon entering you are greeted with a wall full of baked dough filled with any variety of deliciousness possible.

Sausage, egg, and cheese.

Jalapeno Popper.

Bar-B-Q Brisket

A variety of fruit jams.

But one of my absolute favorites was the cream cheese kolache.

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Soft, traditional kolache dough provides a fluffy pillow for a creamy, dreamy cream cheese filling.

As much as I love the cream cheese version, feel free to add whatever filling makes your little heart happy.

Strawberry jam, apricots, cherry pie filling, etc.

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Anyway you choose to make these little morsels of deliciousness, make sure to hide some extras for yourself before starting to share with family and friends.

You’ve been warned.

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Authentic Czech Homemade Kolache Recipe

Authentic Czech Homemade Kolache Recipe is simple, easy, & the best Kolache Factory Copycat Recipe. Perfect Kolache dough recipe for filling

Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American, Czech
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Rise Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 55 minutes
Servings 12
Author My Farmhouse Table

Ingredients

Kolache Dough

  • 2 1/4 tsp Yeast
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Lukewarm Water
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 4 Tbsp Butter, cubed
  • 2 1/2 – 3 1/2 cups Flour
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1/4 cup Sugar
  • 3 Tbsp Instant Potato Flakes
  • 1 Egg, slightly beaten

Cream Cheese Filling

  • 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • 1/2 tsp Vanilla

Instructions

Kolache Dough

  1. Dissolve yeast and 1 tsp sugar into lukewarm water.

  2. Into a microwave safe bowl, put the milk and butter. Microwave just until butter melts. Let cool slightly to 110°F (so it doesn't kill the yeast).

  3. In a large bowl, combine 2 cups of flour with salt, sugar, and potato flakes. Add in yeast mixture, warmed milk and butter. Stir to combine. Add the egg and blend into dough.

  4. Knead in remaining flour until dough comes together and it is slightly sticky.

  5. Let dough raise for an hour and a half or until doubled.

  6. Once raised, form dough into 12 balls. Place each dough ball onto a parchment lined baking sheet, cover, and let raise another hour.

Cream Cheese Filling

  1. In a mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla.

  2. Once dough balls have risen for an hour. Use the back of a spoon and make an indentation into the ball.

  3. Then fill each indentation with cream cheese mixture.

  4. Bake kolaches at 425°F for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

Recipe Notes

Instead of cream cheese filling, use your favorite fruit jam or pie filling. 

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Comments

  1. Gina Ruff

    April 11, 2021 at 2:27 PM

    5 stars
    HI! We made your recipe its delicious, and smells heavenly baking!

    I feel that they were too chewy, is that from too much dough handling?
    Also the front of the pan was a different shade than back of the pan, should we turn pan around half way?
    New to us oven, so first time baking anything in it, know we know about uneven baking.

    We didn’t have a mixer, so cream cheese was clumpy, s
    So hoping next time it will be smoother in appearance.
    Each time we bake we learn something!
    Thanks for posting this great recipe! Now the question is milk or coffee?
    Blessings,
    Gina and Tony Ruff
    Lee, FL

    Reply
    • My Farmhouse Table

      April 12, 2021 at 5:18 PM

      Gina and Tony, so glad you enjoyed the recipe! Congrats on the new oven. Does it have a convection setting? If you turn that on it may help distribute the heat more evenly throughout the oven during baking. The dough should be pretty fluffy with a slight chew to it after baking. Too much dough handling could have been the culprit there. And for the cream cheese, I would say I get the best results by making sure the cream cheese is super soft so it blends up better. Thanks so much for the questions and review!

      Reply
      • Marlyss

        January 28, 2022 at 2:28 PM

        Making recipe now. What did you use for topping? Grew up in Brainard & Omaha, Ne, but now live in Birmingham AL. Always happy to see recipes from our Czech heritage. First time using potato flakes!
        Prune, cottage cheese and poppyseed kolaches are family favorites. Thanks for your website.
        Marlyss Fiala

        Reply
        • My Farmhouse Table

          January 28, 2022 at 9:44 PM

          Thanks Marlyss. For the topping of the cream cheese filling I sometimes make a crumb topping of 2 Tbsp plus 2 tsp white sugar, 1 Tbsp flour, 1 Tbsp melted butter, and sprinkle of cinnamon. Mix it all together and then crumble on top of filling before baking.

          Reply
  2. Marilyn

    December 6, 2021 at 7:48 PM

    I’m a Czech-Texan who has enjoyed kolaches made by my Czech-born grandma and aunts for decades. Although sausages wrapped In dough available at most donut shops are indeed tasty, these are pigs in a blanket, not kolaches. I am happy to see this recipe with the flat pastry and center filling which is the true Czech kolache. The very traditional fillings that I grew up with are cream cheese, prune, peach, and sausage. I don’t recall ever seeing any other fillings than these from the old country. Be sure to top your kolaches with the drobenka!

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    • Karen Slovak Reschke

      February 27, 2022 at 9:55 AM

      5 stars
      I grew up with prune & apricot kolaches that our Grandmother made. So many other Czech recipes also, that I can’t spell, but trying to find them online. If we had of gotten a taste of the cream cheese ones, she wouldn’t have had any around to share, too many grandchildren.

      Reply
      • My Farmhouse Table

        February 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM

        Haha! I love this. Grandma wanted to make sure all you kids got at least a little fruit.

        Reply

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