Kolossal Kolache Katastrophe! gahhhhh. almost all of them spread open.

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angak1

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I used the round cutter like in the directions because I have no square cutter and didn't want to hand cut. I strongly suggest going the square route since it gives more to fold over and try to secure. even though I wet the rounds on one side and pressed and smoothed the fold over, they still popped open. I tried to take them out of the oven when I noticed it, then tried to pinch the hot cookies once more. not pretty, but a massive dose of powdered sugar made them OK and I salvaged enough for 2 small packets to send out. They are also not sweet enough to me. the powdered sugar helps. I used my leftover dough as tassie cups and filled those with the leftover jam and some leftover ground pecans. I think these take practice.http://crackersonthecouch.blogspot.com/2011/12/12-days-of-christmas-cookies-day-2.html

 
hmm, I'd have thought your leftover dough would work too.

The recipes are almost identical, except for 1/4 C more flour in the kolaches.

Don't you just hate when a recipe that works in your head doesn't work out here in the real world?

That's why I live inside my head so much.

 
I think you're right about the square shape giving you more to adhere to, but I also wonder

if you let the cutouts rest a while in the fridge to relax, maybe they wouldn't contract as much in baking.

 
I set them on the back porch in the snow---maybe they got too cold? rested for only 1/2 hour

 
Half an hour should have done it.. I guess we've narrowed it down to cutting them square.

 
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