Czech cookies

These bar cookies are made with a not-too-sweet pecan shortbread spiced with cardamom, with a jam filling. They're perfect with coffee or tea.

Czechs typically bake these cookies around Christmas, but using a universal-shaped cookie cutter, you can make them any time of year. The texture of cookies made with heavy cream is incredibly tender right after baking and remains that way for days. ➜ What can you expect These shortbread cookies are made from a soft dough […]

Czech susenky are popular special occasion-cookies and at Christmas, they become vanocni cukrovi. This basic recipe can be transformed into several treats.

Let's make Bozi milosti, a crispy sweet treat from the old days of Bohemian grannies and aunties. Milosti cookies are most commonly associated with Czech Easter, but feel free to make them any time of year. Let's dive into the recipe!

Kolachkes (or kolaches) are traditional Czech cookies/pastries filled with fruit jam, cheese or nuts and dusted with powdered sugar. #thehungrybluebird #kolachke #kolache #czechkolache #bohemiankolache #fruitfilling #cheesefilling #traditional #czechcookies #christmascookies

Czech Christmas wouldn’t be complete without vanilla crescent cookies. They are the first type of Christmas cookies that disappears from the table! In Czech, we call them Vanilkové rohlíčky. ➜ What are Vanilkové rohlíčky Czech Vanilkove rohlicky crescents belong to the typical Christmas cookies. The base comprises a buttery dough with ground nuts. The pieces […]

This is a recipe for delicious, buttery Czech cookies, called povidlové (powidl) šátečky. Made from cheese pastry, stuffed with tangy plum butter, coated in powdered sugar. Authentic Czech recipe written in English. #czechrecipe #czechrecipes #czechcuisine #cheesepastry #powidl #plumbutter

Traditional no-bake Czech Christmas Beehive cookies recipe made with broken vanilla biscuits and filled with a cream with rum or egg nog.

These moist, no-bake coconut balls are a staple of Czech Christmas celebrations. Flavored with a hint of rum, they are easy to make and taste absolutely delicious! This is an old-fashioned recipe coming from the Czech Republic, where coconut balls belong among very popular Christmas cookies. Czechs call coconut balls "kokosove kulicky" (correctly spelled “kokosové […]

Melt-in-your-mouth Polish lemon sandwich cookies (cytrynowe ciasteczka) feature a lemon-cream filling and are perfect with tea or coffee.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. I made these - the swirly/pinwheel ones. Practice makes perfect, so I need to try again - mine aren't as pretty as these.

Thin and crispy Moravian Molasses cookies. Recipe slightly adapted from Martha Stewart's Christmas. Makes 7-8 dozen 2 1/2" cookies. (or more)

Vanilkové rohlíčky Recipe – Czech Crescent Cookies - Cook Like Czechs

These little linzer cookies are known as linecké koláčky in Czech Republic and they are among my most favourite cookies. When we lived in Prague we could

These Kolaczaki Cookies are the perfect holiday treat! Who can say no to flaky and buttery pastry dough filled with vibrant fruit fillings?

The huge group of traditional Czech Christmas cookies are united under the name vánoční cukroví. It consists of numerous varieties of traditional sweets that are made with various basic and additional ingredients, shaped into different forms, ornately decorated, and served during Christmastime. The most famous varieties are simple butter cookies, appearing in numerous versions such as wafer cookies, crescents, gingerbread cookies, and liquor-infused balls. The most common ingredients used in…

The holidays are among us and let the baking begin! According to Wikipedia: “Kolache (also spelled kolace, kolach, or kolacky, from the Czech and Slovak plural koláče, sg. koláč) is a type o…

These little beauties are called Czechoslovakian Cookie Bars. I can’t vouch on whether this is or is not an authentic Czech cookie, but I can vouch that they are completely addicting! Buttery shortbread crust layered with strawberry preserves, toasted walnuts, and a crumb topping. This recipe was shared by my dear friend Meredith. Soon I’ll...Read More