Kołaczki

Kołaczki are delicious cookies shaped as an open envelope, generously filled with fruit jam (plum, cherry, apricot, raspberry) or almond, and poppyseeds and lightly sprinkled with powdered sugar. 

The flaky pastry is based on sour cream or cream cheese – in Polish, we call this type of pastry ‘ciasto półkruche’ (literally: ‘semi-shortcrust’).

‘Kołaczki’ are known internationally, and are often attributed to Poland. But in fact – they’re a very common cookie, popular across the whole Eastern and Central Europe.