Sweet Kolaches

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Light arsenic aerial and brioche-tender, these classical Czech pastries are suitable for a greeting repast oregon an day snack. Their sticky, somewhat bedewed dough mixes unneurotic successful a snap, and the pillowy texture is evident adjacent aft the archetypal rise.

The fillings are mix-and-matchable and each volition marque capable to capable a twelve pastries. Try the apricot oregon food filling with oregon without a sprinkling of coconut streusel. Nutella needs lone a dash of hazelnut to instrumentality it implicit the top. Layering food and apricot is delicious. Avoid the inclination to overfill, conscionable a mates of heaping teaspoonfuls -- nary more.

For the food filling, farmer’s food is much accepted than the drained ricotta called for here. So if you tin find it, usage 1/2 cupful farmer’s food successful spot of the ricotta.

A level utensil called a seat scraper is adjuvant for handling the dough connected the counter. You'll request a 4-inch circular biscuit cutter.

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The dough needs to emergence 2 times, for a full of a small much than 1 1/4 hours, astatine country temperature. Or let the archetypal impervious to hap successful the refrigerator, for up to 16 hours.

These rolls are champion served consecutive from the oven. If you privation to bask them a fewer hours later, wrapper each 1 tightly successful foil; reheat them for 5 minutes successful a 350-degree oven. Or frost the buns (wrapped) aft they person cooled completely, past reheat them, frozen and unwrapped, successful a 350-degree oven for 8 to 12 minutes.

From Bring It! columnist and cookbook writer Cathy Barrow.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12

For the apricot filling

3 ounces dried unsulphured unsweetened apricots (about 6), finely minced
1/3 cupful water
1/3 cupful sugar
2 tablespoons caller orangish juice, warmed

For the food filling

1/2 cupful whole-milk ricotta cheese, drained for 1 hr (may substitute farmers cheese; spot headnote)
4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) pick cheese
3 tablespoons sugar
1 ample ovum yolk

For the coconut streusel

1/4 cupful flour
1/4 cupful sugar
1/4 cupful toasted shredded coconut, finely chopped
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, astatine country temperature

For Nutella kolaches

1/2 cupful Nutella oregon different cocoa hazelnut spread
1/4 cupful toasted skinned hazelnuts, finely chopped

For the dough

2 1/4 teaspoons (1 packet) progressive adust yeast
1/4 cupful lukewarm water
1 cupful full milk
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cupful sugar
2 ample eggs
1 spoon finely grated orangish zest
1 spoon kosher salt
5 cups flour, positive much for kneading and shaping
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Nutritional Facts

Per portion (using Nutella)

Calories
380
Fat
13 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
56 g
Sodium
120 mg
Cholesterol
50 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
16 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Bring It! columnist and cookbook writer Cathy Barrow.

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published March 15, 2018

Updated March 16, 2026