Kolache

Some years ago, through a convoluted series of events, I was present at the baking of divine kolache with prune filling.  I can't remember a better smelling winter afternoon!  I ate more than my share.

I asked for the recipe and in time was given a carefully typed index card with Grandma Vitosh's historic family recipe.  I've never made them.  Recently I rediscovered this index card and now I can't seem to stop thinking about them.

I'm no great shakes as a baker.  I don't know if I'll be capable of making them on my own and I don't really have the free time.  But I'm determined to go out and get the ingredients and have a go.

Anybody else made these?  Eaten these?  Loved these?

LOVE them!!  Sighs...I'm on a diet, but I'm craving them now!

I love kolaches (especially the fruit ones!)  Haven't had them in ages though...but I'm going back to the States this week so I'm totally going to make a stop at our local Kolache Factory now!

This sounds interesting, can you elaborate on what they really are (and yes, I could google it but I would love to hear your descriptions!)
TIA!

OMG I lurve the Kolache Factory!!

Especially the ones with jalepeno's in them...yum...

The one in Houston we went to does one with sausage gravy in it and DH loved that one!!!

I had no idea what a kolache was until now. But I live near the "kolache capital of the world" lol. They call their summer fair Kolacky Days. I may just have to wander that way and try one this summer, they sound interesting 

So what are they?

They're small cookies made by taking dough, rolling it flat, cutting it into a small diamond or square, and then putting jam in the middle and pinching two corners together to close it.  They're a typical Czech/Polish/Lithuanian cookie, I think.  I would spell it kolacky (sounds more like koh-lahch-key).

Modified to add - I think maybe you guys are referring to what I would think of as a danish more than a cookie?  I didn't know they called those kolache!

What I know of as kolaches (I pronounce it koh-lah-chee) and buy from the Kolache Factory in Houston  (yum!) are pastries with fruit in the center (kind of like a danish, but they're different) or in the case of meat kolaches, are these bread-y things with whatever kind of meat inside.  They're definitely not cookies, the ones I've eaten anyway.

Yeah, the cookie ones are kolaczky, which are different.  I wasn't sure which you guys were talking about at first!

They look like these!

Wow! Those look yummy!  I've never heard of the factory.

I've only had them the one time.  They were pronounced ko-lah-chee.  They were similar in some ways to a danish, but with more bread-like rather than pastry-like dough.  They had prune filling, and the recipe I've got is for the same.

I was present when they were being baked and the smell was so memorable.  Kind of like bread baking only different.

They were were not as sweet or as greasy as a danish.  They were just wonderful.  I somehow doubt mine will be as good...

I think what you are thinking of are Kolaczkis (kolachky, Kolaches). I dunno the correct spelling but here is a picture/recipe:
http://www.bakespace.com/index.php?mode=listing&act=show&lst_id=27260


My family makes these traditional cookies for every Christmas and sometimes Easter! We are German/Slovenian background but my husbands family of Polish background make them as well. My favorites are the prune filling and the apricot filling. My mom has made them before with berry and apple type fillings but we didn't like them as much. Of course she sprinkles them with powdered sugar! They are a lot smaller and flakier than a danish. YUM!