WILBER — Thousands of kolache fill the U.S. Czech Capital’s deep freezes today. More of the pastries are baking in ovens, or cooling on wire racks, and a few, in all likelihood, are being ...

If you've ever heard of or enjoyed a kolache, there's a good chance it was a Danish-like, fruit-filled pastry, perhaps in a Czech or generally European bakery. As it turns out, Texans happen to ...

So how’d this originally Czech pastry, now the perfect breakfast for an on-the-go Texan, become so popular? Let’s dive in. Kolaches arrived in Texas in the late 1800s and early 1900s as waves ...

Kolaches are a Czech pastry made of a yeasted dough, usually filled with fruit and sometimes a simple farmer’s cheese. Traditionally, the fillings include poppy seed, apricot, or prunes.

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 ...