Homemade Kolaches, this time recipe from southern Moravia, Czech Republic. You know how koláče taste good, so why not to try to make them !

Recipes

Sieve the flour into a bowl and make a hole in the middle to put in yeast. Pour in lukewarm milk and one teaspoon of sugar. Put on a warm place to let the yeast ferment. Add sugar, rest of the lukewarm milk, egg yolks, vanilla sugar, grated lemon zest and knead slightly. Finally, add melted butter and knead to prepare smooth, non-sticky dough. Let rise on a warm place for about an hour. Make two buns, put them on a floured baking tray and let rise for another 20 minutes. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough, making it into a thin layer. Brush the edges with egg and garnish the cake with poppy seed, plum and quark fillings. Finally add some raisins and almonds. Bake in preheated oven at 180 °C for about 30 minutes.

Poppy seed filling:
Mix milk with sugar and vanilla sugar and bring to the boil. Add finely ground poppy seed and farina wheat flour. Cook for about 2 minutes and let cool.
Quark filling:
Mix quark with sugar, vanilla sugar, egg, lemon zest and pudding powder.
Plum-jam filling:
Mix plum jam carefully with rum and cinnamon.

There are many recipe variations that evolved from region to region as well as from family to family. The video above will demonstrate how to make one of the various recipes for kolache.