No wonder I have never heard of this stuff. If you ask me, it still sounds more like a leather shoe rather than a pastry!
RED= NEVER BEEN THERE!
Kolache (also spelled kolace, kolach, or kolacky, from the
Czech and
Slovak plural koláče) is a type of pastry consisting of fillings ranging from fruits (including poppy seed, raspberry, and apricot) to cheeses and/or meats inside a bread roll. Originally only a sweet dessert from
Central Europe, they have become popular in parts of the United States. Several cities, including
Prague,
Oklahoma;
Caldwell, Texas; and
East Bernard, Texas, hold annual Kolache Festival celebrations, while
Montgomery, Minnesota, claims to be the "Kolacky capital of the world"[1] and holds an annual festival known as Kolacky Days.
Verdigre, Nebraska, stakes the same claim with a similarly-named festival.[1]
Prague, Nebraska, is commonly known as the home of the world's largest kolache.
West, Texas, claims the title of "Kolache capital of Texas."
Crosby, TX, also has a yearly Czech festival. St. Ludmila's Catholic Church in
Cedar Rapids, IA, hosts it annual Kolache Festival the second weekend in June every year and makes over 6000 dozen kolaches to sell at its annual event.
Ennis, Texas has the National Polka Festival every year on the first full weekend in May which serves many koláče and klobásniky.
It was the sweet chosen to represent the
Czech Republic in the Café Europe initiative of the
Austrian presidency of the
European Union, on Europe Day 2006.
In
Texas and
Oklahoma, many restaurants and bakeries specialize in kolaches. In
central Texas the kolache is particularly widespread among
Czech Americans as well as their respective local communities[2] and
Caldwell, the seat of
Burleson County, which holds an annual Kolache Festival the second weekend of September.[3][4] Many other communities known for kolaches such as
Weimar and Schulenburg, Texas, and
Wilber, Nebraska, have a considerable
Czech ethnic population.[5] The official "
Czech Capital of the United States,"
Wilber, NE holds the annual
Wilber Czech days, during which several thousand kolaches are sold by various town groups and businesses.
