Czech kolache recipe

An authentic Texas Czech style kolache with a cream cheese filling and streusel topping.

Andrea Slonecker demonstrates how to make kolaches with a cream cheese filling and various jams.

Every self-respecting Texan knows that it's impossible to make the drive from Dallas to Austin without stopping in West, Texas at the Czech Stop. For as long as I can remember, my family has always stopped in West to buy dozens of kolaches. I have to clarify something for y'all: kolaches are sweet bread with fruit, cream cheese, or ricotta cheese filling-- NOT sausage in a roll. Let's review-- Pigs in a blanket (while still SO delicious, definitely not a kolache): Kolaches: Delicious…

Learn how to make Traditional Czech Kolache with our step-by-step recipe featuring a pillowy yeast dough filled with sweet apricot or blueberry fruit preserves.

An authentic Texas Czech style kolache with a cream cheese filling and streusel topping.

Bez práce nejsou koláče—without work, there are no kolaches. Lydia Mae Faust’s hands seem even bigger than they look when you hear what they’ve gone through. They are what I notice first as she rolls out her dough. I’m looking at hands that used to milk cows every morning. Hands that mixed their first cake before they could reach a table. Hands that wrestled with mule-drawn hay rakes and cotton choppers over miles of Texas land, growing up on the Vajdak family farm in Burleson County, just…

A light, tender and delicious Czech-inspired pastry.

This Easy Kolaches Recipe is made with Rhodes rolls for the dough and is topped with sweet cream cheese and fruit fillings. You'll love this Czech pastry for breakfast or dessert.

Cheesy Texas Jalapeno Sausage Kolaches are different than Czech kolaches because, in addition to sausage, we added jalapeños and cheddar cheese. Kolaches are a popular breakfast pastry in Texas, found at most donut shops and bakeries in Central, Southeast, and South Central Texas. If you have ever stopped at a Bucee’s in Texas on I-35 or I-10 and tried one of their breakfast kolaches, you will know how good these sausage, jalapeño, and cheddar-stuffed pastries are.

This homemade Kolache recipe is a perfect breakfast or brunch treat! Made with a homemade yeast dough, and a variety of fillings to choose from! I made these Czech kolache pastries with a sweet filling made from cream cheese, and two fruit fillings from raspberry and apricot jam!