Czech fruit-filled or savoury-filled yeasted pastry buns, the central Texas Sunday-morning bake. Sweet kolaches carry apricot or poppyseed; savoury klobasniky carry sausage and cheese.

Kolaches arrived in central Texas with Czech and Moravian immigrants who settled in towns like West, Caldwell and Round Rock from the 1850s onward. The sweet version uses a rich yeasted dough rounded with a thumbprint of fruit filling; the savoury klobasnek, a Texas innovation, wraps sausage in the same dough. Round Rock Donuts and the Round Rock and Caldwell area shops run the canonical Texas-Czech bakeries. The Austin city version threads into breakfast-taco and BBQ culture; kolaches and breakfast tacos are equally Texan morning options here.

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