Christmas Kolache Recipe

In a small bowl dissolve yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in warm milk.

Christmas kolache recipe. On a well floured board roll out chilled dough to 1 8 inch. Kolachkes kolache recipe for traditional czech cookies filled with jam cheese or nuts and dusted with powdered sugar a christmas cookie favorite. Slovak kolache nut rolls. Kolache or nut rolls have been a christmas and easter favorite in my family for at least 5 generations.

This recipe for ukrainian christmas bread or kolach is a slightly sweet yeast bread that is braided and shaped into either an oblong loaf a round braided loaf or three separate round braids stacked one on top of the other. In the morning i set out the kolaches to warm to room temperature while the oven is preheating and then cook them for a quick hot breakfast. Made with a simple yeast dough and a filling made from dried fruit they taste like a much less sweet version of a classic breakfast pastry. Spoon approximately 2 teaspoons of filling in the center of each square.

I prepare the recipe by filling the kolaches the night before and keeping them in the refrigerator overnight. Beat the cream cheese and butter together with a stand mixer or a hand mixer until completely incorporated and creamy 3 5 minutes. Sift flour and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. My great grandmother brought the basic recipe with her from the former czechoslovakia now the slovak republic in the early 1900s.

The recipe has been in our family for generations and to me nothing screams christmas more than aunt jan s signature holiday tin stuffed with baked goods. Kolaches are a simple fruit filled pastry. Kolach plural is kolache also spelled as kolace kolach or kolacky from the czech and slovak regions is a type of pastry that holds a bit of fruit rimmed by a puffy pillow of supple dough or made as a filled cookie we are familiar at christmas time. Use a pizza wheel to cut dough into 2 1 2 inch squares.

They are one of my husband s favorite foods from both his childhood and his czech heritage.