Polish Cream Cheese Cookies (Kołaczki)

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 45mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    20
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    306

Kołaczki are delightful Polish pastries that are loved for their buttery, flaky texture, and delicious fillings. These bite-sized treats are typically made with a delicate cream cheese dough, rolled thin and cut into squares or circles. The dough is then filled with a variety of sweet fillings such as fruit preserves, sweet cheese, or even poppy seed paste. The edges of the dough are folded over to create a unique pinwheel or crescent shape, giving Kołaczki their distinctive appearance. Once baked to golden perfection, these pastries offer a delightful combination of flavours and textures, with the delicate dough complementing the sweet and tangy fillings. Kołaczki are often enjoyed during holidays, celebrations, or simply as a sweet treat to savour with a cup of tea or coffee. The dough can be frozen in batches and the cookies can be made ahead of time and baked from frozen.

recipe updated 11 Nov. 2025

Ingredients

  • Cream cheese icon
    Cream cheese
    220 g
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    340 g
  • Plain flour icon
    Plain flour
    375 g
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    50 g
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    50 g
  • Raspberry jam icon
    Raspberry jam
    300 g
  • Apricot jam icon
    Apricot jam
    300 g
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    as needed
  • Egg white icon
    Egg white
    1

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Prospero
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Baking tray - large

Step preview

  1. Fit the K-Beater
  2. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, fit the splashguard
  3. Mix – 2 minutes, speed 4
  4. Then add flour
  5. Mix – 30 seconds, speed 2
  6. Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap
  7. Chill in the fridge - 1 hour
  8. Preheat the oven - 175ºC
  9. Line the baking trays with parchment paper
  10. Mix the ingredients together and sprinkle onto a clean worksurface
  11. Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out until 0.5 cm thick
  12. Cut into 5 cm squares and place onto prepared baking tray
  13. Place 0.5 tsp of jam onto the centre of each square
  14. Fold one corner over, brush a small dot of egg white and fold the opposite corner over
  15. Press down gently to lightly seal the folded corners
  16. Bake until golden brown – 15 minutes, 175ºC
  17. Remove from the oven and let cool completely
  18. Dust with icing sugar
  19. Serve
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