Kolaczki


For the dough:
1 pound cream cheese, softened
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 pound butter or margarine (softened)
2 egg whites

For the filling (choose one or more of the following):
raspberry jam
strawberry jam
apricot jam
nut filling (recipe below)

Combine cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add flour gradually, until a soft dough ball has formed. Cover and chill overnight. Preheat oven to 350 F. Roll out small sections of dough. (Keep remaining dough chilled.) Cut dough into rectangles roughly 1 1/2 x 2 inches. Place filling on one corner of the pastry and roll it up. Seal the edge with egg white. Alternately, cut dough into squares, place filling in center and bring opposite corners together in the center of the filling. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Nut Filling
1 pound ground walnuts
2 cups sugar
water

Combine nuts and sugar. Gradually add water until mixture forms a stiff paste.

Note: In English, these are sometimes also spelled Kolaches.


Reviews of Kolaczki:

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  A cookie baker in Kansas  Nov 10, 2011
Would make this again.
This is a Czech recipe.

  michelle pueblo,co in new jersey  Oct 6, 2011
Would make this again.
These cookies have been a family tradition since i was a little kid we loved making these at christmas , my son looks forward to these every year it is a tradition.. Now this year i have to make 4 batches since i am sending them to my son in the Marines ... Have fun making and baking these with your kids ... Start a new tradition... five stars

   Dec 27, 2009
Would make this again.
I have made these every year with out the egg white. It is a family tradition, and was one when I was a child growing up. My kids expect them!! Instead of rolling in powder sugar, trying sprinkling it on right out of the oven. five stars

  ed in New York City  Nov 19, 2009
Would make this again.
My grandmother and mother made these every year for Christmas. Butter and flour (both from Poland) along with cream cheese. I made a batch of the pastry yesterday and froze them. Will make the kolaczki in early Dec after returning from Poland.

Fillings: prune (lekvar), poppy seed (Solo) and ground walnut.

Always popular at Christmas. five stars

  deb  Dec 22, 2008
Would make this again.
This a great receipe, my family were eating them as soon as they popped out of the oven. The only thing is that it
was very hard to keep the filling in them. It could have been me as I am no baker. Otherwise very good. five stars

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