I wish I had some though :(. This year, I made a cream cheese roll as part of the batch. Thank you for this lovely recipe. I do have a question, baked on a sheet pan and they spread out during baking. Ours were about 4-5 wide. Cream together thoroughly the butter and cream cheese. It tastes just like my Babas. Thank you for sharing. My question is that I have used this same recipe & just substituted apricot filling instead of the nuts. You cant go wrong with nut roll, whatever you call it! Cant wait to make it. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes under low heat. In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt. I saw your recipe and shared the memory with my 18 year old son. Thanks! Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. I double the recipe, we like a lot of poppyseed on our rolls. Using a heavy mixer, add flour until all has been used. Slovak Kolache (Nut Rolls) : 5 Steps (with , Web Assembling the Kolaches: Pre-heat the oven to 375F. Its always interesting to read reviews and how results vary. Move the oven rack one setting higher than the center. One of my siblings apparently ,while at play, stepped on it. I came across your recipe and thought Id try it out during Covid, when I knew we wouldnt be seeing his family. Prepare the Dough: Whisk the flour and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. Hi Lori, Mine do crack a little bit too, I just accept it as part of their rustic nature :). Stir in the apricots. I made your nut roll last year for the first time. This bread and filling sounds and looks the same but she baked it flat, not rolled, and cut it into squares. I have not been able to find a recipe either! Great tip! Additionally, I appreciated how the author made note of how to tell that the dough is not too dry, so as to eliminate the problem of the loaves splitting open during baking. Great recipe girl! It made my family and I so happy to have a taste of home and remember my grandmother. My mother in law has been making Kolache for years, and its the only Christmas sweet my husband will eat. I lightly buttered two sheets of waxed paper. I made it again for Christmas. Will make these soon and come back with review. In that time, however, Ive received a lot of questions about two very specific components of this recipe: (1) the use of cake yeast; and (2) some issues with the dough splitting open and filling oozing out during the baking process. bar. Thanks as always! We all loved the rolls and I have been trying to find a suitable recipe for years. Try a family run marker, they usually carry this for the holidays. For fruit filling, some of our favorites are apricot, pineapple, raspberry and cherry. This dough was so easy to work with. Thank you! Recipe was given to my mom from my fathers Romanian family. Roll Cookies. Mix the powidl and the rum. In fact, I had never heard of them until I met my Irish husband (he comes from eastern PA). I really dont know what happened, but I will be looking for a different nut roll recipe. I froze mine and how do you defrost! Really good recipe. Scald milk and add butter. Thanks for an awesome, easy to follow and DELICIOUS recipe!!! Roll out into a 12 x 18" rectangle. And now its what I use! I have a way that has been working but I wanted ur version cuz its probably better then mine. The parents had died and the oldest sister basically was raising all of them. The key to the soft dough is the sour cream, which that part of Europe is infamous for using in a lot of their baking (and even savory sauces). Terrific! Nut rolls remind me of any holiday and my Buba whose birthday just happens to be today, even though she is celebrating from heaven. Brenda Vacula Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing just until combined. wonderful issues altogether, you just received a new reader. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I made the nutrolls and they were wonderful. My grandma started off with the nut roll, orechovnk. Beat on high for 3 minutes. Cover with hot sterilized lids and rings. Under instruction #4 it says to let dough rise for 3 hours. I have a different recipe from you for nut rolls that I had issues with everytime. This is very close, in fact, it looks like the Nut Roll Recipe for the dough. If you poke the roll with a fork all the way along the top and few pokes on the sides it will help keep your rolls a more uniform shape as the steam created inside the loaf will have somewhere to vent. they rose beautiful and then spread out in the pan. They were delicious and everyone asked for a roll this year. The net sells in bulk. Wow! This recipe is THE BEST recipe. Its a lot easier to measure one fourth the amount onto a roll! 2. A yearly Christmas tradition. Roll into an 18-in. Mix together walnuts, 1 cup sugar, and 1/ 8 teaspoon cinnamon. 1/2 cup evaporated milk 1 teaspoon butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup powdered sugar This recipe makes 4 large kolache or about 8 dozen small 2-inch square rolls. When I can across this recipe for 8 long rolls I went for it. Anyway, my nut rolls always cracked and I think I finally figured out why. I would like to try these but wanted to double check on the timing of the dough rising. I tried this recipe and just substituted greek yogurt for the sour cream and the dough was perfect. P. S..just dont turn the oven on until ready to pre heat and bake. So I want to tell you a funny story about Pittsburgh nut rolls. Also, if you make 1/2 of your recipe do you still use the 3 packets of dry yeast or a whole cake? It is an excellent recipe and Ive used it for 3 years now and I get very good results with it. Im wondering if its a bit too much flour and its making the dough too dry and more prone to cracking/splitting. Overall good. Combine flour, sugar and salt. I now live in Arkansas and make these each year for the holidays. You want the dough to be just not too sticky. My wifes grandma used to make a Kolache like this recipe. I appreciate any help and advise anyone can offer Thanx and Happy Holidays. I made my dough yesterday but got tired and stuck it in the fridge overnight . Im from Uniontown 50 miles south. I made these for the first time today and they are delicious! Form dough into 7 or 8 balls. I also make about 125 cabbage rolls (saramas) at a time using beef, pork & ham with rice, etc in the filling & use sour heads to wrap them in, which can be purchased up in our neck of the woods (Northern MN). Everytime I tried them, the roll would bust open in places and the filling would ooze out. Join me for a special 4-day email series full of special tips and techniques (along with recipes!) Our recipe also uses 10 cups of flour (about=like you said, flour amounts vary) and I get 7-10 loaves every year from the same recipe. Its the same reason why we score bread before baking the steam needs somewhere to go or it will find the weakest spot and bust its way through. You want to stop when it isnt real sticky. Amount is based on available nutrient data. I have posted my mothers walnut roll recipe on my blog, which is the recipe form Transylvania region, very similar to yours. Invest in a food scale. Thank you for the updates! The rolls are filled with lekvar, a thick, soft fruit spread. This Saturday is all about nut roll baking and I cant wait!! Either way, Ive never come across these on any holiday tables before. As I look over the recipe and the pictures it appears to be very close to what I remember as a kid. Kolache, or nut rolls, have been a Christmas and Easter favorite in my family for at least 5 generations. For glaze, in a bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, cold milk and remaining fruit spread. Let butter melt, when cool, add beaten egg yolks, sugar, salt and crumbled yeast and vanilla till dissolved. No one has made it since she passed away. Thank you again for a fabulous recipe! Do the same with the other roll. My mom makes these with pecans instead of walnuts every year for Christmas and they are always a huge hit with our south Louisiana family. My dad said it tasted better than my great grandmas. I remember eating nut roll as a child and this recipe is even better than what I used to have when I was little. They have passed away. All of the family look forward to them around the holidays-not just Christmas but Easter, too! Grease two nut roll tins and preheat oven to 190C. And, if you have a stand mixer with a dough hook, making this is easy. We will be making 2 batches today, rest tomorrow. Bleached or unbleached.Gold Medal? This recipe is rocks!. Taste delicious but sure doesnt look pretty. Why use unsalted butter and then add salt. I havent had it since I left Pa over 40 years ago. years ago, and SO MANY OF YOU have made it year after year for the holidays, which just makes me so ridiculously happy. Web Dissolve yeast in warm milk. Let rise while you preheat your oven the 400F. I think my kitchen was too warm that day from doing other things. The texture and the nut feeling is fabulous oh and the last one I rolled up Blend in the flour. Remove from heat and stir in, until well blended, 3 tablespoons butter, 5 tablespoons sugar, baking soda, and salt. My current hurdle is how thin to roll the dough. My question is after I make the nut rolls should I let them rise for 3 hours. Cookies Recipes Christmas. Merry Christmas to you! Enjoy! I cant wait to make these! . This recipe does NOT dissapoint. We also use sour cream in the dough, which is refrigerated overnight. Over the course of the next year I slowly eat them all up, and then its time to bake again! Yield 7 or 8 loaves. ground walnuts . This was delicious. Hi Sherry, So glad you enjoyed them! Does anyone have a good recipe for the poppy seed filling or apricot filling used in these rolls instead of nuts. Thank you so much, Michelle, for a fail proof nutroll recipe. My husband and I are originally from the Pittsburgh area, now living in WI. As Mom got older she began making them at Easter instead of Christmas. Yesterday being cold in Ohio my dough was struggling to riseso I heated water to boiling, poured it in a glass and set it and my dough in the microwave (since my microwave is a big oneit fitted my large bowl with 10 cups-of-flour-dough oklol) you may have to do this twice as the water cools downmy dough didnt bloom like it would in summer but I could tell it rose someI turned out great! Once you roll the filled nut roll on a clean surface, how do you move to the baking sheet? I would say yes but again just want to clarify. My question: is there any reason the dough isnt kneaded? Thankyou soo much for your help. We make about 16 rolls at a time for the holidays. Veal, pork and rice filling. Your recipe is THE BEST nutroll ever, but I have the issue of splitting. Ive been making Potica for 50 years. Let them raise 3 hours She would make it for Easter and Christmas, besides the using the nuts she would make poppyseed, and apricot. 3 key items1. 1/2 cup sugar It was a huge hit. I have 4 rolls rising right now! So we always have them kinda horseshoe shaped (not quite the wreathe shape you mention.). I froze them at Christmas time and just grab one out of the freezer anytime that I need a fix. Im so glad I found yours! Can you use fat free milk? I use only salted butter, and so just give a quick shake more to make up for the salt in the butter perfect! Pinterest. Take was good, think I need a better yeast mone never bubbled. I dont think Ive ever had nut rolls before. Im slightly allergic to walnuts, and always pay for it when I eat my mothers nut roll. Good Morning. Looking at the pictures brings back so many memories my eyes filled with tears. Ive been making nutroll since I was a little girl and Im 59. I was dreaming of my grandmothers biscotti recipe which used butternut flavoring, and I found it here as well! Wonderful nut rolls, made them for Christmas. Oh, my, gosh. I have a friend who cannot have walnuts so I make the filing with pecans instead. Mix together walnuts, 1 cup sugar, and 1/ 8 teaspoon cinnamon. This recipe is the only one I could find with exact ingredients and clear cut instructions. Yields 1 dozen. I had always liked the recipes on this site, so I decided to try to make them again. It was the only nut roll (kolachi) I ever really liked because it wasnt dry like so many are. I made this over the weekend and it reminded me of those times being at their house for the holidays. I have yetto find a recipe that almost mirrors her fabulous poppyseed rolls. You might not need all the flour. Transfer the cooked fruit to a food processor and pulse 3 to 4 times until desired consistency is reached. When rolling up the nut roll, try to roll it gently and not too snugly, if you know what I mean. You can always add more but you cant take it out. One question: do you roll the nutroll before rising or do they rise flat? My first nut roll success ever! Absolutely delish!!!!! I grew up in West Texas and Mother always had one of these rolls bought from Safeway (market) Dont know what company made them, but Ive been looking for them ever since. I remember my grandmother making them with Nuts, Apricots, Prunes, poppy seed and I vaguely remember a Raspberry version as well, but she was pretty inventive. Ive never made an apricot filling so unfortunately I cant say if you need to add anything else to thicken it. Maybe like 10 cups? When I found this receipe it sounded so very close to my mothers but with one very big difference. :), OMG Here researching the filling for nut rolls. https://www.instructables.com/contest. (typo in the last paragraph above): It should say I used 5 1/2 cups (not 5 1/5), yes I made this and we loved it, was so afraid it would not turn out or stick to the counter, after I got the nuts on rolled up beautifully, printed and keeping recipe, made 4 nut rolls,and we loved them. My question, after 1 hr. Hi Kassidee, The dough is, indeed, very soft and easy to work with, but it really shouldnt have the consistency of a biscuit. After 25 minutes I removed them from the oven , a medium brown, none of them were cooked through. Now that I have a proof phase in my oven I can make pizza dough other things from scratch. Very yummy. I have not made it with a hand mixer; if you try it, Id love to hear how it goes! I come from a Croatian family and this is authentic! I have yet to try them. These look kind of like baklava! This is one Ill be making for years to come! I would like to try this but only 1/2. I followed the directions and the only mistake I made was rolling from the bottom up instead if side to side. No milk was used in her recipe in the filling. I know it was a great comfort food for family and neighbors and the treats we received were delicious. Just made 4 they are rising now I have made your rolls for years and my mom says better than her mothers thats amazing. Can you help. In oven they went sorta flat Take one of the disks of dough from the refrigerator and lightly flour both , Web Repeat with all eight pieces of dough. I like the fact that you can freeze the rolls and pop em out whenever you need them. butter (2 sticks) 1/3 c. sugar 1 c. milk 2 pkg. It was a huge recipe, and it had sour cream in the dough. Then I remembered after rolling up the nut roll on the second 2, I pulled the edge around the finished roll to make sure nut filling was encased and then pinched the dough together. Dad would visit his mom in Germany and return with 4 or more nut and poppy seed rolls in his suitcase. This year I made apricot rolls, too, because my mother shouldnt eat nuts. square. Brings out the walnut flavor and makes a world of difference! My first taste came by way of my Hungarian great-grandmother. You will give me a wonderful Xmas. The flour left over from the bag of flour is perfect for the cream cheese cookies Horns. The dough is perfect every time and rolls out very smoothly. Not so with this recipe. Today had rain and high humidity. These will not be that way will they? Needless to say, I didnt know where to start! THIS recipe is what I remember getting at my grammas house. The only suggestions I would offer is 1) to grind the nuts as step #1, 2) make the filling as step #2 while the yeast is combined and rests, and 3) to prepare the dough last, as the dough can tend to crust easily even while covered with a moist cloth (cold weather had me operating the heater at 74 to keep the kitchen warm during dough rise, and since this was my third baking project today, the home air was dryer than usual and my dough suffered just a bit for it. So I sliced it and put the slices back on the tray and baked them for another 15 minutes on each side. Merry Christmas ).Glad to see someone share this, they are indeed good with milk, for breakfast or so. She left the recipe in her cookbook but my brother lost it. I have been baking these for the last 4 years and the flavor is outstanding. If the recipe calls for 1/2 cup water, I use a candy thermometer to get the right temp. Add to dry ingredients; beat until moistened. They do take up a whole day to make, but they are worth it. Every single time my rolls split open when baking. Try this a few times and youll get to know just when the dough feels right. I have used this dough with poppyseed, apricot and lekvar filling also. Hi Denny, Ahh thats so frustrating! Crazythese look amazing! I hope a reader who has made them has a suggestion! Let rise. Where did you find cake yeast? I enjoy imagining her doing the things you post about Joseph a year from now.)? Kolaches are the little cookies that are folded with a prune or apricot filling. I could eat it from dawn till dusk with, or without, milk! Also, I have to confess, when I saw the title Nut Roll and hadnt seen the photo yet, I expected to see something more like a PayDay candy bar! This is officially my go to recipe. Did you do anything different when using the dry least (like letting the dough rise for shorter or longer than the recipe calls for)? Would it make a difference if I used 2% percent milk rather than whole milk in the filling? Soak a cup of white raisins while preparing nutsadd to nut filling. Your recipe is very similar but my moms calls for the dough to rise, then punch down and roll out into rectangles and then fill and bake. I was also left with a tremendous amount of leftover dough and made the best cinnamon rolls on the planet too. Definitely a European traditional treat. Its delicious. Ive never had a nut roll! What change does this make to the nut rolls? My mom grew up with this kind of nut roll and the recipe she gave me was a bit sketchy and limited. Steps to Make It. Has it been attempted ? You might try piercing the rolls fully through with a fork six times before baking. Now they seem dry. Im glad youre enjoying the nut rolls! She always used a wine glass as her measuring cup LOL. When cooled and cut you cant even see that it is a roll with layers just looks like lots of nut filling in the middle with an outside crust. Im wondering if perhaps they didnt get puffy enough. Because of the apricot filling, I thought I would need the dough around the filling to be a bit thicker to hold it. I just mixed it until it came together and pulled away from the sides, let it rest while I got the filling together and rolled it. This recipe sounds like the one my grandmother used to make, but I didnt really want to make 8. Im a seasoned baker and have a few questions to clarify. For the longest time I tried to reclaim memories from long ago to bake nut rolls like my moms and this recipe is as close as it comes since she baked from memory. Place on greased pans, and let stand for approximately 4 hours to raise before baking. May I ask if you have a recipe you can share for the poppyseed roll? I am making these for the third time since Christmas (halved the recipe each time) and they are delicious and just as I remember the way my moms nut rolls tasted. Ty for sharing this recipe years ago!! I cant wait to bake them! How do I defrost them your way? Well first time making them. I think the apricot filling can be found in the baking aisle in small cans. But when she baked them she put them in round cake pans. Which oven rack is the best to bake these nut roll? thank you. I grew up in Northeatern Pa and my moms family is Slovak/Polish and they would always make kolachi at Christmas and Easter. That is another difference between your recipe and ours. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!!! I am either putting too much filling or making dough too thin.
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