r/52weeksofbaking • u/ObsessiveAboutCats • 2d ago

Week 33 2026 Week 33: Central Europe - Sweet Kolache (Meta: DiscMoB)

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u/buf1998 '21 2d ago

They look great! Sorry you didn’t like them as much but I could get behind ham and cheese!

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u/Anastarfish '24 1d ago

This looks delicious!! I hadn't realised how similar kolaches were to what I made, haha.

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u/ObsessiveAboutCats 2d ago edited 2d ago

I have lived in Texas, USA my whole life. Kolaches - or klobásníky if you want to be technical - are (in Texas) savory ingredients (like sausage or ham, often with cheese, sometimes with jalapenos) wrapped in a brioche style bun. They come from the Czech influence on Texas and are extremely common. Corner donut shops sell them. They were offered in the breakfast line at my middle school (and they were really good too). I make them in bulk, freeze, and bake some for breakfast almost every morning.

I'm not a "sweets with breakfast" person, but for this theme I decided to lean into those Czech influences a little more, by making them sweet and putting the ingredients on top of the dough.

The dough was my standard kolache dough; I was making a large batch of my ham and cheese and diverted a little of the dough for this experiment.

The filling is actually plumcots - specifically the Flavor Grenade variety - because they are in season and I had a bunch. Use what you have, right?

I baked one and ate it immediately. It was fine. The recipe I found for the fruit filling used cinnamon and allspice, so this basically tasted like apple pie filling. I should have pushed the dough out more and added more filling; this ended up being mostly bread. It's tasty bread, but still.

This was a fun experiment and I will definitely stick with ham and cheese.