We have a fabulous little doughnut shop in town, Spudos. In addition to delicious doughnuts, they have a whole host of breakfast yummies--including breakfast kolaches. (Technically the singular is kolach and the plural is kolache, according to Wikipedia, but it sounds weird so I do it this way.) Anywho, these are sweet bread on the outside and breakfast foods on the inside at Spudos--and they are fantastic.
I had wondered how I could make something similar at home without having to go through making my own dough. I don't mind making things from scratch, but I'm not in the mood to mess with dough making at a time when I managed to hoist myself from bed and now want all of the food everywhere to be in my belly. If you want to make your own dough, more power to you. I decided that refrigerated dough might be a good option, but only if I didn't have to pay full price. Full price is for desperate people--and I could wait it out for this experiment. Here is how I did it on a morning after a good sale on refrigerated biscuit dough. (Ten tubes for $10 and it was the brand name, too!)
Easy Mini Kolaches
Prep time: 5 minutes Bake time: 8-11 minutes
1 can Grands, Jr., biscuits (I used the flaky ones.)
5-6 slices of thinly sliced ham (or any other cooked and drained meat)
1/2 cheddar cheese (Again, choose your poison if cheddar isn't your thing.)
Preheat the oven to 400F. On an ungreased baking sheet, plop those biscuits on out of the tube. Spread them out and flatten them with your hand. Tear up the ham and place it on the dough, along with the cheese. (If adding scrambled eggs, put the cooked eggs in here now also.) This is also an ideal time to drop a couple nibbles of ham for cats who are clearly starving, no matter what their full food dish might suggest. But, I digress... After filling them, begin pinching them closed and smoothing out the pinched areas. This was easier to do in my hands than on the cookie sheet.
Because I want my food to look nice, I flipped those babies over so that the seams, even though smoothed, wouldn't look tacky.
Pop them in the oven to bake for 8-11 minutes.
Mine were ready right at the 8 minute mark. Watch for them to be a beautiful golden brown on the top.
As you can see, there was one oozer. I ate it first as punishment. (Or because I love slightly burned cheese. That is also a possibility.) That leads us to the final step, which is to devour it. This was a delicious experiment.
I am inclined to believe that you could fill these with just about anything you wanted to try with decent results, but it will be up to you to experiment. Peanut butter and jelly, Maid-Rite, sloppy joe, spinach and feta... Dang, I just ate and I'm drooling over the options already! If you try a different filling, comment with it and let us know how it turned out! Or maybe you want to try a different dough--go for it!
Enjoy! Guten Appetit!
