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Ms. Jerabek's Kolaches
Ingredients
- Dough:
- 1 package dry yeast
- 1/8 cup lukewarm water
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoons salt
- 1 small can evaporated milk plus enough hot water to equal 1 cup
- 3 cups flour
- melted butter for brushing
- Sausage and Cheese Filling:
- 1 package Lil Smokies
- American cheese sandwich slices
- Cream Cheese Filling:
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/4 c sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- dash of salt
- dash of lemon juice
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Directions
- Dissolve yeast in water and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon sugar.
- In large bowl or mixer, cream sugar and butter together.
- Add yolk and salt and mix well.
- Add the dissolved yeast and about 1/2 a cup of the flour.
- Mix slowly with mixer.
- Add all the milk and continue adding the remaining flour, using mixer or stirring with a wooden spoon until dough becomes glossy.
- Cover; let rise in a warm place until double in bulk, about one hour.
Sausage/cheese instructions:
- After the dough has risen, pull off small portions of dough about the size of an egg.
- Wrap the dough around a Lil Smokie (or 2) and half a slice of American cheese.
- Place on a greased pan about 1 inch apart.
- Brush with melted butter to improve flavor.
- Cover loosely and let rise until light, about another half hour.
Cream cheese instructions:
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
- After the dough has risen, pull off small portions of dough about the size of an egg.
- Brush with melted butter to improve flavor, cover loosely and let rise until light, about another half hour.
- Make a small indentation in each piece and place filling there.
- Spoon cream cheese mixture into the indention of the kolache and bake as instructed.
- Sprinkle with fancy sugar when the kolaches come out of the oven.
- Bake on the bottom rack of a preheated 400-degree oven for 15 minutes.
- Brush the kolaches with melted butter when they come out of the oven and cool on wire racks.
- Kolaches are best the day they are made.
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