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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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  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

  maria P. in Rochester, NY  Dec 11, 2008
Would make this again.
My family loves them !I make these cookies with the walnut mixture. This recipe was brought to our family in 2007 from my husbands mothers new husband . His family
had this as a tradition for many years since he was little. Now I share these with all our friends and family! five stars

  Cheryl in New Jersey  Dec 4, 2008
Would make this again.
This recipe is the same as the one my
late Slovak Grandma made..only she did not measure anything!!! She taught me how to make these cookies when I was 9 or 10...and have made them every Christmas since! They melt in your mouth!

I have never rolled them in powdered suger..but I'm going to try it this year. Thanks for the tips....it can only make them better! Happy baking! five stars

  judy in north carolina  Sep 8, 2008
Would make this again.
same recipe as my grandmother! (except the egg whites...i've never had them come apart without the egg whites).

we never use an electric mixer, only mix by hand (more work, but yields a much more tender cookie) and when we roll out the dough we roll in in POWDERED SUGAR! makes for a slightly sweeter and a little bit crispier cookie. however, it makes a holy mess, but it is well worth it!

we also use the solo brand fillings and thank for the great tip of piping the filling, that should save some mess! five stars

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four point eight stars
95% would make this again


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