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.

poppy seeds or sweet cheese known as koláče. The pastries became popular at local bakeries, and these towns still celebrate that heritage: West is considered the “Home of the Official Kolache ...

While klobasniky share the same tender, brioche-like breading as kolaches, they are filled with sausage and cheese rather than jam, cream cheese, and poppy seeds. And just to get ahead of this ...