Comments on: Authentic Czech Kolache Recipe

By: Christina Lane

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:09:46 +0000

By: Jenn

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:25:54 +0000

In reply to Maruška.

I’ve made these twice — such a hit in my home! Rather than using the sweet fillings, I go for more savory like sausage, jalapeño, and cheese. Omg. So good!
I do have a question about the sugar — since I’m doing savory, is the sugar needed? I wondered if the sugar is necessary for the dough composition, or if it is just for sweetness.

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By: Amanda Johnston

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:56:06 +0000

My 11 yo daughter sent me this recipe and asked me to buy the ingredients. Tonight she made them all by herself, her first time using yeast. The end result was delicious, and the recipe is obviously not complicated or hard to follow.

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By: Kathy

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:17:22 +0000

By: Linda Pizzuti

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:16:52 +0000

Can this be kneaded using the dough hook of my kitchenaid mixer?

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By: Maruška

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:01:32 +0000

Hello :)
The recipes looks really nice!! I’m Czech and I’m used to cooking and baking in enormous quantities and have troubles reducing recipes down, which poses a bit of an issue now that I live abroad and only live with my partner. However, I think you might have mixed up two recipes: ‘buchty’ and ‘koláče’. Buchty are sweet rolls with plum/curd/poppy filling on the inside of them but sort of shaped like your kolache here. Koláče on the other hand are flat and round like pies and they can either be big or small. They can have all sorts of toppings but the more traditional ones again are plum/curd/poppy. They can also be topped with almonds or other nuts or as you said posypka/žmolenka/drobenka (butter, sugar and a type of flour that is impossible to find abroad).
Your recipe looks very good and delicious, I think they might have evolved this way out of necessity from not having access to the correct ingredients abroad. Happy baking :)

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By: CC

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:48:51 +0000

Can’t wait to try them! Grew up in Texas and now in NC I’m really missing kolaches (and sausage kolaches but that’s a much harder recipe to replicate because you gotta have the right sausage)!

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By: Emmi

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:37:41 +0000

By: KKV

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:42:34 +0000

I think these need a smidge more sugar in the dough and I’d flatten them more so they’d feel more traditional.

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By: Christina Lane

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:01:16 +0000

By: Shelley

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:55:00 +0000

Yum, you’re taking me back to my childhood. My Czech great grandmother would always have some of her homemade kolaches waiting for us everytime we came to visit. While my grandmother would make rolls, the kolache tradition stopped with my great grandmother. Looking forward to trying this recipe.

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By: Alena

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:58:01 +0000

In reply to Granny’s boy Chris.

What you are presenting here are not Czech kolaches, but some weird American dough products.
Alena from the Czech Republic

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By: suzy

Sun, 28 May 2023 02:27:52 +0000

my Grandma Polly’s kolaches (kohl la chees) looked a little like yours, but they were about an inch or so thick. She was Bohemian, preferred that to Czech. I’m 88 now and still remember watching her make them, in Denmark, Wisconsin. loved it.

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By: Angela

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 22:24:34 +0000

do 2 eggs get added to the dough or is it one egg for the dough and 1 egg for the wash?

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By: Sharon Berry

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:01:48 +0000

I grew up in a small Oklahoma town with many Czech families. Kolaches were our doughnuts. My first attempt was good. Your directions were easy to follow. I currently live at 8,000 ft in Colorado where baking can be tricky. These came out well.

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