Kolache Creations

Love this place for local good kolaches! The breading is soft, fresh and delicious! The prices are really good. You can get a huge box to go and take to work, or breakfast gatherings or what not. This is a good find and is definitely my go to kolache place!

While I can’t attest to extensive field studies like some reviewers, I’ve had my fair share of kolaches, walking the earth up to this point. And although other reviewers have covered this ground, it bears repeating — this place is THE best in Austin. Sorta don’t wanna admit what my favorite kolache is, lest you wake up earlier & get your tail over there before I do, ganking them out from under me. But this place can easily take on your tried & true place in West, the one that occupies that sweet spot in your heart or belly. The owner may not chat ya up much anymore… he seems to skew towards brusque these days, but once you taste his lovely pastries, you’ll forget ALL about it.

This is your best bet for kolaches in Austin. They don’t have quite the selection of a place like Czech Stop, but unless you are willing to drive to West, this is a more than adequate substitute. My favorite, the sausage jalapeño cheese roll has the cheese and jalapeño integrated into the large sausage link rather than outside of it, but it is extremely flavorful and juicy. Their cinnamon twists are perfect for someone like me who prefers the spicy cinnamon kick instead of being drowned in icing. All their kolaches have the soft, sweet, but not too sweet buns that you want.
The service is friendly, and the product is a huge step up from the mediocre donut shop kolaches you see around Austin most of the time.

Best kolaches since back home! Enjoyed sitting and chatting while drinking coffee. Been eating his wares since the 1980s! A satisfied customer comes back again… and again.
The variety is broad. Over the years, I’ve eaten them all. But, my favorites are cream cheese, with apricot right behind. Then, the meat varieties are next. But, that’s just IMHO.

Meh. Unfriendly service. Kolaches given to you cold. Bottom of the barrel ingredients. The bread tastes like dinner roll dough.
If you go too late, most of their inventory is packed by fives into plastic bags, and they will not open one to sell it to you (even though most will likely be thrown out later). Since I like to try a little of everything, this was a huge turnoff. Also the plastic bags have the effect of making everything taste like artificial, grocery store bakery fare. No thanks.
The search for a good «big little city» kolache continues…

Love the Kolache’s here, consistently good! The cinnamon bread and rolls and twists are
the bomb. Favorite kolache’s are the meatball, the sausage and the bacon ones! Also
have lots of fruit flavored ones! Go see Robert, he will fix you up!

How am just finding this place! It’s the best kolache I’ve ever had! Minimum for a card is $ 5. The ham and cheese is amazing — tons of ham.

Very small, and hidden back off the road in a stucco strip mall. Sign says «Kolache Shoppe.» It is pretty much a bakery, carryout only, though there is a small table. Service was super friendly. They have other items besides kolache, which looked and smelled good. But I was on a mission, and ended up with a bacon and an apricot kolache, for breakfast. The bacon was very good, just right to start the day. The apricot reminded me of grandmother’s. They had a half dozen others. The dough was more of a sweet bread roll, not closer to grandmother’s or others’ which is more sweet and eggy.

Being a huge fan of kolaches of many varieties, this place has sadly showed me, there are terrible ones out there. After some pretty unfriendly service by the gentleman behind the counter, we shrug it off in anticipation of what is supposed to be (or maybe once was) some delicious bready filled goodness. We hurry home to dig into one of our favorite type of breakfasts only to grow increasingly disappointed.
We start with the egg, bacon and cheese. This extremely close to cheeseless morsel was surprisingly flavorless and it has bacon, how is this possible? I ask myself while moving on to the next of 3 kolache options.
We bite into the sausage, jalapeño, cheese. Mediocre at best, we couldn’t eat more than one bite before giving up on them.
Lastly was the highly anticipated ham and swiss, which we saw numerous pics of. Don’t be fooled peeps, they’re not the same! The ham was some cold cut folded over. The size is deceiving, large but mostly bread, which was ok but if I wanted to eat some rolls I would’ve stayed home and saved money.

Pretty disappointed. I got a ham and cheese and a sausage jalapeño, had two bites of both and threw them away. The breading was soggy, like so soggy it was bread flavored paste, and the fillings just tasted old. They clearly didn’t switch gloves or paper between touching the different items because the outside tasted like a cinnamon roll. So much so that after heating them up at home it smells more like cinnamon roll in here than kolache. That said, the cinnamon rolls did look pretty good and if the outside of my non-​cinnamon roll food was any indication they’re probably alright.

This whole kolaches/​klobasniki craze must be a Texan thing because I’m not understanding the magic. I expected something similar to piroshkis, but the dough is significantly less flaky and the fillings taste more Texan than European (so, processed and artificial). Which may not necessarily be a bad thing depending on what you like, but I prefer traditional piroshkis much more.
I hated how everything was given to us cold. And everything – sweet or savory, it didn’t matter – was all packed in the same bag! So my cinnamon roll smelled like sausage. Ugh. Out of all the klobasniki we tried, the Ham & Swiss was the clear winner (it’s also the most expensive). Their cream cheese kolache and cinnamon roll weren’t bad either and would probably be pretty tasty if they were heated up… but overall there was nothing amazing about our experience here that would make this a must-​have the next time I visit Austin.

Meh. I decided to check this place out after reading all of the positive reviews, and to put it politely the kolaches were gross. I had the ham and swiss kolache (if you can manage to call it a kolache). The dough had a great flavor but was not fully cooked and fluffy. The ham was not cooked evenly, which is not a difficult thing to get right seeing as how the ham was diced in tiny cubes. As a native Texan I’ve experienced lots of great kolaches all over the state, these are certainly at the bottom of the list.

I call this place Dallas Nightclub Kolaches. It’s the only way you’ll find it. Although it can now be «way across the parking lot from TacoDeli.» And you need to find it. Such tasty, fluffy kolaches and sweet rolls!
Only open mornings and early afternoons Monday — Saturday, closed on Sundays. My friend swears by the hamburger buns, so those are on the list for next time.
Today was all about the bacon-​cheese kolache, some cold milk, and the happiness of turning my hangry man loose to order whatever he wanted. $ 6 total. Crazy good.
As a Saturday bonus, you can pick up a few vegetables from Johnson’s Backyard Garden and others gathered for micro pop-​up farmer’s market. Tasty and healthy? Done. Next time I want those sweet rolls.

To start off, this place is not the easiest to find for your first trip. It’s in the reddish looking plaza and the sign on the store says «Kolache Shoppe» which really threw me off because I was looking for «Kolache creations.» But once you make it through the front door, it’s all downhill from there. Or should I say uphill?
The owner is so kind and sweet. It was our first time so he went through the menu with us. For savory kolaches, we got a jalapeño cheese sausage, a bacon and cheese, and a Swiss and ham. We also got some sweet stuff — cream cheese, peach, and a sticky bun.
Everything was delicious. The bread of the Kolache is ridiculously soft and sweet which I personally like, but others may not. The bacon Kolache was too salty, but I enjoyed the sausage one and the Swiss and ham. I don’t even like ham! I do wish the sausage was chopped up and not just a huge hunk of sausage, but my friend preferred the sausage whole so it depends! The sweet kolaches were decent but I feel like they fall into the very mediocre range of sweet, open kolaches. However, I LOVED the sticky bun! So delicious and sweet.
Everything was inhaled within about 30 minutes in the car because they don’t have seating and we couldn’t even wait until getting home… Lol.
Come check it out for yourself. I would come just to chat with the owner and grab some delicious breakfast on the go.

Oh dear. My already very plump waistline is expanding as I devour this beautiful, delicious, soft, moist, pecan filled cinnamon roll created and baked to perfection… Ahhhh…
OK… Make sure you understand this place is very much tucked in the brownish shopping strip on burnet Rd, you can see the strip, but not the shop from burnet Rd. It sits horizontal to burnet… k? You can enter 1 of 3 drives… just know they connect so you can cross over! Might miss it the first time. but its worth looking twice for k?
Alright. First of all I have to say this is my second time coming here, first time was in January 2014 and I have often thought about it since then. It was so freaking delicious… turns out today my friend wants something sweet. and was leaning to this type of «sweet» I immediately thought about kolache creations… oh yea. I have a REASON to go now… Wahooo!!!
We enter, damn it smells amazing in here. How could it not?
Owner is just as nice as ever… just like the last time I was here. I told him i Unilocaled and asked if he minded that i took a few pics and one of him… and he was more than pleased and did so willingly and even posed for a nice shot! Its a win win when you receive super service and super delicious food… Can’t go wrong.
So…
I remembered how my son enjoyed the kolache last time and my daughter the cookies! Hubs never had a chance, so this time I made sure to get enough for everyone at home.
I ordered:
3 chocolate chip cookies
3 pb cookies
2 oatmeal raisin cookies
1 pecan cinnamon roll
1 strawberry swirl cream cheese kolache
1 6pk of 2day old cherry kolaches.
That should last a couple days… I hope. Lol
My friend ordered:
Cinnamon twist
Strawberry swirl cream cheese kolache
1 pb cookie
1 chocolate chip cookie
She is devouring that twist right now… telling me how yummy and gooey it is inside and how the outside is so crisp and cinnamon-​y… She is SO happy we went there. You’re welcome dear!
I’m loving the cinnamon roll… Ahhh its sweet. Powerful. Delicious.
The cookies… I mean, you can tell… hell you can taste… the «handmade…» Homemade” difference that sets them aside from others. They are truly good. And they look perfect. :-)
The dough he makes is so flavorful, so soft, so flaky. Not like crisp flaky or croissant flaky… but layered… Ya, that’s it. Layered it’s a better descriptive way to put it. Its delicious. Its addictive. Its what baked goodness is all about.
We will definitely be back. Great baked goods… great friendly atmosphere.
And as for the person who made the remark regarding the presidents… Well, the way I see it is… We each have our own individual personalities, likes, dislikes etc… No sense in feeling as though we should be criticized for how we feel about something… or that someone should hide their personal side or pretend to be different just to please each passerby.
Just my opinion.
I don’t have to like it… I don’t have to dislike it.
Its not my place to pass judgment on others’ thoughts, beliefs, etc.
Austin’s is known for uniqueness, I happen to thrive on the diversity and opinionated locals. I love it. Even if I don’t agree. Lots of love to the locals. Always.

No more driving to West, TX for Czech stop.
Kolache Creations is a semi-​hard to find, tucked away little bakery, with a «kolache shoppe» sign up front. The staff is helpful, and the smell of fresh bread that hits you when you walk in is just amazing.
I highly recommend just going with the basics here — their sausage has a distinct «snap» to it, no unnecessary mushiness, — and the bread is buttery and satisfying! I haven’t been excited about kolaches since I was a little girl and had one for the first time — but the excitement is BACK!
Looking forward to becoming a regular. 5 stars!

I put this on Unilocal myself. To be honest you’ve never had a kolache better than what they make here. The smell when you walk in is intoxicating. Ham and Swiss is my favorite but honestly there is not a thing I’ve tried that I didn’t love.

Oh dear, I’ve finally tasted the mythical doughy pastry my beloved has waxed poetic about for over a year.
As good as the sweet cheese filled ones were I was surprised to find I favor the savory meat filled kolaches; however, I’m pretty sure there is no wrong way to go at Kolache Creations. I’m pretty sure you can smell the cinnamon at least a half mile away. The staff was friendly and eager to answer any questions.
Now I’m hooked on kolaches and must go learn how to make these fabulous pillows of happiness!

This is my favorite Kolache place in Austin. As others have pointed out, the dough here is awesome and yields an exceptionally soft, fresh taste and feel to it. Definitely much softer than your average kolache. The Jalapeño cheese sausage kolaches are my favorite with meat, and the cherry kolaches are possibly my favorite fruit one. On my last visit I picked up a cinnamon twist to try for the first time and they are awesome as well and probably better than any I’ve had from a dedicated donut shop. Tons of crusty cinnamon sugar coating on the exterior giving it a burst of spiced sweet flavor around their deliciously fresh dough. Great place to pick up breakfast to go.

This place is holy freaking unbelievable Batman!
I live maybe…2 minutes down the road on Burnet Road and I’ve been there 2 times. How… have I made it only 2 times… I have no idea but the place is amazing.
You walk into this nondescript plaza and you can tell… it’s gonna be good like all the places are when you walk into a nondescript plaza at the suggestion of Unilocalers. This place has the best baked breakfast goods. It’s amazing. You walk in and you can tell that it’s Mom and Pop, old school and nothing like it. There is a vast array of kolaches as far as the eye can see. Day old and few days old breakfast goods lining up the wall, cinnamon rolls the size of your face beckoning you, and if it’s Friday or Saturday… NUTTY STICKY BUNS! I love these! And let me tell you, they are worth every stinkin’ calorie. And yes, I know because I’ve run them off and I still would have eaten them anyway.
This place deserves your business. I hate going to HEB down the road for the sub bar, bare minimum, hardly enjoyable breakfast offerings when this place totally blows most places out the water by a longshot. They also have the most amazing cinnamon twists that are beautifully crispy and CRUSTED in cinnamon sugar. Makes my mouth water just thinking of it. The guy at the counter was so, so nice and I can’t wait to find my way back here for a sweet treat. It’s so hard to walk in here and not buy the whole entire store. You’ll definitely get your carbo-​load going here and deliciously so.
Also, might I add, I had a cinnamon roll next day that was still out of this world so I know their next day stuff is just as unbelievably good.