Break off pieces of dough to make 1½-ounce balls, weighing them on a kitchen scale covered with plastic wrap. For fruit kolaches : Shape the balls into smooth rounds with seams on the bottom.

Will Stapp grew up eating authentic, fruit- and cheese-filled kolaches from the Czech community of West, on Interstate 35 just north of Waco. Yes, that’s right, fruit, not meat.

It's hard to resist the allure of freshly baked kolaches. Still warm from the oven, the slightly sweet, pillowy dough cradles a generous portion of fruity filling to accompany your cup of coffee on a ...

Kolaches are a Czech pastry made of a yeasted dough, usually filled with fruit and sometimes a simple farmer’s cheese. Traditionally, the fillings include poppy seed, apricot, or prunes.

She modified a recipe for Parker House rolls to make her kolache dough. She offers a fruit version with cream cheese that changes daily for breakfast, which is served until 10 a.m.

The parish will return to making kolaches for its annual 2024 St. Ludmila’s Kolach Festival this Friday through Sunday. It hopes to make 120,000 of the pastries in a new commercial kitchen.