What is this round food that Krtek is eating in most books? Could anyone link an authentic recipe? Thank you!

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  1. that’s a pie, koláč

    that one looks like plum jam and sugar crumbs, or poppy seed and sugar crumbs

  2. Thank you everyone! My daughter loves Krtek (so did I when I was her age), it’s her birthday soon and I plan to prepare this for her as a surprise.

  3. Tvarohovo-povidlový koláč. A pie with “plum jam” (povidla aren’t exactly plum jam but it’s the closest translation) and curd.

  4. [There](https://www.cooklikeczechs.com/ceske-kolace-authentic-recipe-for-czech-kolache/) is a recipe and somewhere in the article is also a link to poppy seed and cream cheese fillings that are most likely on the picture. You can also make one big koláč instead of multiple small ones and then you could eat it as is shown on the picture. If it is plum jam “povidla” instead of poppy seed filling than there are many recipes, but the simplest and most traditional would be to cook plums (no sugar, no thickener, nothing) until it is in the consistency of quite thick jam.

  5. Everyone keeps saying this is Frgál / moravian koláč or Valachian koláč, but there is no reason to be specificly moravian thing here. This is simply a koláč. Might as well be Chodský koláč, or any other larger, flat type.

  6. Oh boy, I pitty anyone who has never had our frgál. I’d kill to have one right now – ideally the apricot one ♥

  7. Krtek is not a czech character in the first place. He is originally from Italy and he is obviously eating pizza. During 70s and 80s the communist government used him as a propaganda tool and he sort of rooted in the czech culture. But czechs will always steal something and then claim they made it up, look at “Rakosnicek” for example, originally Asian. They took him, painted him green a there you go. No shame.

  8. I love kolače but at the risk of being downvoted, I have heard allegations that the best kolaches are made in Texas in an enclave of Czech diaspora… I’m not American! But I am so curious.

  9. Frgál will give you the same taste and looks as kolác but is bigger so it looks the same size in human hands

  10. Krtek was first shown in 1956 Prague, and was created by a Czech animator. Not sure where him being Italian came from 😀 Although, Krteček DID premiere in 1957 at the Venice film festival, but he is Czech and was introduced to Czech Republic one year before he was ever shown in Italy 🙃

  11. I saw your second post first where you showed the kolac that you made. Once again you did well.

    I’ll see you for afternoon tea and kolac 😛

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