Do you know what a kolache is? Sweetly Baked owner Christine Mathews is ready to teach you. About the size of a muffin, kolaches are handheld pastries with origins in Eastern Europe; Slovakia and the ...

HOUSTON – Morgan Weber grew up eating poppy-seed kolaches baked by his Czech grandmother, who honed her technique on a wood stove. Kolaches, soft pastries of yeasted dough with a divot in the center, ...

In the early 19th century, the first Czechs made their way to Texas, according to the website for the Texas State Historical Association. By the Civil War, there were 700 Czechs living in Texas, and ...

The kolache is a cosmopolitan pastry: well-traveled, adaptable. It was the Czechs who started stuffing fruit filling into folds of puffy, semisweet yeast dough, and they brought kolaches to Texas ...

The Village Bakery in West, Texas’ first Czech bakery and the home of the state’s original kolaches, has been sold and will reopen, the new owner said Wednesday. Shelly Miller, owner of the Village ...

There are more than a dozen flavors of kolache, from savory to sweet, at Barb's Kolache Bakery, 22354 W. 66th St. in Shawnee, which is owned by Barb Vratanina. SUSAN PFANNMULLER Special to the Star ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha woman has won third place in a national holiday kolache competition hosted by the Kolache Factory. If you’re part of the Czech or Slovak community, kolaches are nothing ...

Something new is on the rise in Midtown Fort Collins. Colorado Kolache Company — Fort Collins' first dedicated brick-and-mortar kolache bakery — is set to open at 1717 S. College Ave. late this month, ...

Autumn Stanford is taking over New York City one kolache at a time. The Austin native opened Brooklyn Kolache with her husband, Dennis Mendoza, in 2012, introducing the “Czech-Tex” treat to Bed-Stuy ...

It may not be the most popular pastry in the rest of the country — but in Cedar Rapids, the kolach is king. The popularity of kolaches — pronounced ko-LAH-chee — reaches its pinnacle in early June, ...