Cookies (Koláčiky)
Dough: 350g all-purpose flour, 1 packet yeast (30g), 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 mL milk
Filling: farmer’s cheese, raisins, sugar
Topping: 100g flour, 100g powdered sugar, 50g butter
And here is the last of the three recipes from Alena’s mom kitchen. This time, it’s for little round cookies or koláčiky. This treat shares the sweet dough with the apricot cake and the poppy seed rolls.
Roll the dough out and then use a floured drinking glass to cut out circles (like when making pirohy).
Then top each with the sweet farmer’s cheese (tvaroh) mixture mixed with raisins (hrozienka). Move everything onto a baking sheet, and top with the flour crust.
And bake at 350F. These are making me really hungry!
These look so good. I have a Kolache bakery by my house, but they aren’t quite like these. This recipe is more like what I remember my grandma making. Can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for all the wonderful recipes you share.
Yummy! Can you please tell me what farmers cheese you buy? The one I found in Whole foods was salty and I can not find any other farmer’s cheese in Charlottesville.
Many thanks
I bought it once in Giant, but haven’t seen it there since. So, what I usually do is buy regular plain cottage cheese, wrap it in a cheese cloth, and squeeze the liquid out. Because that’s what farmer’s cheese is: cottage cheese minus the liquid whey.
Try Rebecca’s Natural Food they have the best one their.
I make my own tvaroh. I boil buttermilk(they sell it in every grocery store, my Kroger sells 1/2 gallons) and then when it starts boiling I pour it over cheesecloth, hang over the sink, wait till liquid gets out and then use as regular tvaroh.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area I’ve seen it sold as “quark”. If you have a grocer with a big selection of cheeses, they probably have it. The containers look like the large yogurt containers.
Ricotta is an option for farmer’s cheese.
Ricotta is not a good substitute beacuase it is made from heated whey while tvaroh is made from heated milk.
can anyone tell me how long to cook for im gonna try make these for first time
Hi James, typically you bake stuff like this for about 15 minutes on 375F. Leave the oven door closed for the first 10 minutes so that dough rises nicely. After the crust formation begins (the outside starts turning pink), you can open the door periodically to monitor them. Bake till done, as a Slovak cookbook would say.
I’m looking for a recipe. My baba would bake these “cakes” for Easter and Christmas on a cookie sheet. There was a 1/4 inch cake bottom,the next layer would be pineapple, lekvar, or cottage cheese,a layer of light, not sweet icing and would sprinkle tiny pieces of walnuts or pecans on top. She would cut the entire cake and when she would put them on a plate, she arranged them so the small cakes looked liked diamonds.