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Koláče

Name: Koláče
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Czech Republic
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 60g Butter; 60g Sugar; 2 Egg Yolk; A pinch Salt; A pinch Lemon zest; 200g Cottage Cheese; 100g Plum Jam (or blueberry jam); To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Round sweet buns with cheese, plum jam, or poppy seed filling in the center — a traditional Czech pastry.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Koláče are Czech sweet buns made by pressing a well into round yeast dough and filling it with sweet cheese, plum jam (povidla), poppy seeds, and more before baking. In Moravia especially, they're essential at weddings, and the families of the bride and groom bake hundreds to give to guests and neighbors.

🌆 Where it's eaten: The day before a wedding in a Moravian village, women spoon colorful fillings onto koláče on big baking trays and slide them into the oven one after another.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 200ml
Butter 60g
Sugar 60g
Egg Yolk 2
Salt A pinch
Lemon zest A pinch
Cottage Cheese 200g
Plum Jam (or blueberry jam) 100g
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and a little sugar in warm milk, add the bread flour, melted butter, remaining sugar, 1 egg yolk, salt, and lemon zest, knead, and let rise 1 hour.
Mix the cottage cheese with 1 egg yolk and a little sugar for the cheese filling.
Divide the dough into 12 balls, flatten on a baking sheet, and rest 15 minutes.
Press a large well in the center with your fingers and fill with cheese or jam.
Bake at 180°C for 15–18 minutes.
Dust with powdered sugar.

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