Kolaches Recipe

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Homemade kolaches include a delicious, pillowy dough and your choice of filling. They'll be your new favorite breakfast and easy to cook than you think!

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Ingredient

– 4 & 1/2 cups (540g) all-purpose flour, divided – 4 & 1/2 teaspoons (two 0.25-ounce packages) instant yeast – 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar – 1 & 1/2 teaspoons salt – 1/2 cup (118ml) water – 1 cup (227g) sour cream – 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter – 2 large egg – pastry filling* – confectioners' sugar, for garnish (optional)

Kolaches Recipe

Mix 1 & 1/2 cups (180g) flour, yeast, sugar, and salt in a large basin or stand mixer. In a medium saucepan, combine water, sour cream, and butter.  

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Stovetop heat until extremely warm (120°–130°F). Add butter mixture to flour mixture slowly. Two minutes of medium-speed beating. Scrape bowl sides. 

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Add eggs and 120g flour. Beat fast for 2 minutes. Add the remaining 2 cups (240g) flour. Stiff dough. 

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Cover and chill 2–24 hours. Cover baking sheets with parchment or silicone. 

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Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. (Your kitchen scale makes this easier and more accurate.) Make balls from each half. 

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Leave 2 inches between dough balls on prepared pans. Cover and relax 15 minutes. Indent each dough ball deeply and widely. Leave a 1/2-inch border outside. 

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Fill each indentation with a heaping teaspoon pastry filling. Food-sprayed plastic wrap covers kolaches. Keep the kolaches warm and draft-free until they double in size, about an hour. 

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Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake kolaches till gently browned, 18–23 minutes. Cool pans on wire racks for 5 minutes. 

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Cool on a wire rack after removing from the pan. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar on each kolache if desired.

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