Same recipe as my previous strawberry + cream cheese kolaches, but rolled out and cut with a donut cutter, then 30min rise, then fried. It made 25 donuts and holes. Glaze is just a simple powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla one that I eyeballed. No recipe really. Everyone loved them 😊
Found at a HardOff in Japan yesterday. I don’t often find Voltron out here. Didn’t buy, but it was only about $15 + tax at the current conversion rate. Not sure if it’s anything worth going back for. No box and I think the text says it might be missing pieces.
I had a chance to try making fruit kolaches today and they turned out great! I made mini ones so I could share with some curious friends here. It made 24 minis, but I think this recipe would make 12-15 full sized kolaches.
There are a few things I’d do differently next time:
Add a little more sugar to both the dough and strawberry filling. Both were less sweet than I prefer, but still really good.
Biggest change - more filling / less dough for each kolache. Like double the amount of filling. I think that would have been easier to control with full sized kolaches so I’ll try that next time.
Make sure posypka is drier. I was in a bit of a hurry at the topping point of this adventure so I just tossed on what I made, but it was kind of moist instead of crumbly. I’ll work on that next time.
Overall, I’m very happy! Feel free to ask any questions. Here’s the recipe details:
Kolache Dough (similar to my previous posts but with slight alterations):
1 cup milk
1 egg
4 Tbsp butter
⅓ cup sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
3½ cups bread flour
6g instant yeast
Add all ingredients to the bread machine in the order shown. Run on dough setting (approximately 1.5hrs).
Roll into equal size balls and let rise for 30-45min. Makes approx 12 full size or 24 mini size kolaches.
After the dough balls rise, make a deep indentation in the center of each and fill with the following fillings, about equal amounts of each.
Strawberry Filling:
2 cups frozen strawberries
¼ cup sugar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Simmer all together for 10min, stirring occasionally and crushing up the strawberries then make a slurry with:
1½ Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp cold water
Stir in and cook for 2-3min. Let cool.
Cream Cheese Filling:
4 oz cream cheese, softened
2 Tbsp sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 egg yolk
Mix everything together and set aside.
After they’re filled, top with posypka. Then bake at 350f for 10min, rotate 180 degrees, bake another 5-10min until tops are golden brown. Brush with melted butter while still warm. Enjoy!
Posypka (streusel) Topping:
¼ cup flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp cold butter
First attempt letting the new bread machine make the dough, then shaping and frying donuts! Yet again I’m surprised by just how good they turned out, even with some technical issues. My wife, my son, and I each ate 2 fresh out of the oil and my daughter ate 1! It’s difficult to find something that everyone likes. My daughter even said “we don’t need to buy donuts anymore, daddy can make them!” 😂
If you saw my recent kolache / klobasniky post, I used pretty much the same recipe with just a few tweaks. Here’s what I did for these donuts:
1 cup milk
1 whole egg
4 Tbsp butter
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp salt
3¼ cups bread flour
6 g yeast
#9 (dough) setting on my machine for 1.5hrs. Then shape into rings and let rise for 30min more. Then fry in hot oil. Top with a simple glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1.5 Tbsp milk
Splash of vanilla
Pinch of salt
Things I would change for next time:
Increase the flour by another 1/4 cup to 3.5 cups total. This was less sticky than yesterday’s dough but still too sticky to roll out and cut clean donut rings. To simplify things, I just hand shaped them. That’s why they’re a little scraggly looking - but that didn’t impact the taste. The other thing would be make waaaay more icing 😂
Next experiment (hopefully this weekend) will probably be traditional fruit kolaches! I bought strawberries and cream cheese today in anticipation!
The dough was still pretty sticky after the bread machine cycle but I kneaded in another 1/4c or so of flour and everything worked out. I’m shocked by how well it worked!
My wife gave me this s!mplus Home Bakery bread machine for my birthday and I was finally able to test it out today. I used this recipe:
English Muffin Bread for the Bread Machine
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/english-muffin-bread-for-the-bread-machine-recipe
Super easy and everything turned out great! I made some minor adjustments to the recipe due to what ingredients are available here in Japan, but tried to keep fairly true to it and I’m quite happy, especially for a first attempt!
A couple of years ago, I posted here about my set of five consecutive Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar banknotes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Banknotes/s/0Jw9YcD2Zu
I decided to sell them, but then the deal fell through. I was planning to sell them again about a year ago, but they got lost in some of my filing. Finally found them again a few days ago, and I’m trying to decide if it’s worth trying to sell them again.
I’ve been doing some research, but it’s hard to get a good read on the current situation because of the amount of fakes that are out there and just lots of different places selling at lots of different prices.
What do you think a set like this would be worth currently? And also is eBay the best place to sell? Are there dealers that would buy them? Is a private sale better? I’m just trying to figure out what I want to do at this point, and I was hoping some of you people with more information might be able to point me in a decent direction.
This is not a sales post. I’m just looking for current information on what I should do with these banknotes. I hope it doesn’t violate the rules as I really am not trying to sell here, just get things squared away and decide what I want to do with this set.
Thanks!