Amazing Cream Cheese Kolache
Amazing Cream Cheese Kolache Recipe. The kolache is buttery and flakey dough filled with sweet cream cheese. Easy dessert, or breakfast.
- Prep Time: 2 hrs for prep and rising
- Cook Time: 25 min
- Total Time: 2 hrs 25 min
- Yield: 12
- Category: Desserts, snack
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
1. 3 1/3 Cup of flour
2. 2 tsp of instant yeast
3. 1/2 tsp of Salt
4. 1/3 cup of sugar
5. 1 cup of milk
6. 5 oz of melted butter
7. 2 large eggs
Cream Cheese Filling
1. 7.5 oz of cream cheese filling (room temperature)
2. 2 Tbsp of sugar
3. 1 Tbsp of flour
4. 1 Cup of milk
Kolache Streusel
1. 5 Tbsp of flour
2. 2 Tbsp of sugar
3. 0.5 oz of butter(cold and cut into cubes)
Egg wash
1. 1 egg, Beaten
2. 1 Tbsp of milk
Instructions
- Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl of stand mixer fitted with dough hook.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk all wet ingredients together. Make sure melted butter is warm or at room temperature. If you whisk hot butter into egg and milk mixture, they will solidify.
- On slow speed, gradually add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until the dough starts to come together, approximately 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of mixing bowl if necessary.
- Increase the speed to medium and knead until the dough is smooth and pull away from the mixing dough. The dough is supposed to be a little bit wet.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead with your hands.
- Use your fingertips and gently lift and fold edge of the dough that’s farthest away from you toward the middle. Turn the dough 90 degrees and fold again.
- Repeat the process of turning and folding the dough until the it forms a smooth round ball, approximately 1 to 2 minutes
- Turn the dough seam side down in a lightly greased or lined with plastic wrap, large mixing bowl.
- Cover tightly and let it proof until the size increases at least by almost half, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.
- Press down the dough and deflate. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough into 12 equal pieces (approximately about 2.5 oz each).
- Work with 1 piece of dough at a time. Stretch the dough by using your fingers and pinch the edges together at the bottom to form a smooth dough.
- Place the dough seam side down on a lightly floured surface. Use your hand (with the thumb wrap around 1 side of the ball, while the other fingers wrap the other side) drag it in small circles until the dough is round and almost smooth.
- Place the round dough seam side down on a rimmed baking pan lined with parchment paper at least 1 inch apart from each other.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let them rise until increase by half, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.
- For filling
- Combine cream cheese, flour, sugar in a mixing bowl of stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment.<br>On low speed, mix the mixture together until smooth, approximately 1 minute.
- Add milk and continue to mix until everything combined. Set aside for later use.
- For streusel egg wash
- In a small mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and use your fingers to rub everything together until the mixture comes together like wet sand. Set aside for later use.<br>In another small mixing bowl, whisk together beaten egg and milk.
- For baking kolache
- Pre heat oven to 350F
- Lightly grease the bottom of 1/4 measuring cup with flour or melted butter.<br>Press the cup firmly onto each dough to form a deep hole in the middle of it.
- Scoop filling onto each kolache. Then gently brush the edges with egg wash mixture.
- Carefully sprinkle streusel on the edges, don’t let them get into the cream cheese filling. Bake until the edges turn golden brown color, approximately 20 – 25 minutes, remember to rotate the baking pan half way of the process.
- When kolache done baking, let them cool down for 5 to 10 minutes. Serve warm.
Notes
- You can garnish this kolache with fruit of your preference.
Find it online: https://www.fillmyrecipebook.com/amazing-cream-cheese-kolache/