Cinnamon Roll Kolaches

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If you’re a fan of sweet and savory together, then this breakfast treat is for you! Cinnamon Roll Kolaches are not only delicious but also very easy, with only two ingredients.

Serving of a Cinnamon Roll Kolache on a pink plate with a baking sheet of kolaches in the background.

Perfect for a lazy Sunday morning, these Cinnamon Roll Kolaches are quick and easy and great to make with the kids. 

What Are Kolaches?

Kolaches were introduced to the United States by Czech immigrants. Their version typically featured a sweet, fruit, or cheese filling encased in yeasted dough. They were much like a Danish pastry.

Texas quickly adopted the idea of kolaches, but tweaked them to be more savory and fluffier. The fillings are often sausage, cheese, and jalapenos. They have become a state favorite, with several towns calling themselves “Kolache Kingdom,” and can be found in bakeries, gas stations, or roadside stands.

Our version uses breakfast sausage links and canned cinnamon roll dough with icing. My family adores them. I hope yours will as well.

Ingredients Needed

This may be the shortest ingredient list ever.

  • Breakfast sausage links – I used a maple-flavored sausage, but any type can be used.
  • Can of cinnamon roll dough with frosting – I used Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls.
top view of raw strips of cinnamon roll dough on a blue cutting board. Preparing to wrap tem around cooked maple breakfast sausage links to make Cinnamon Roll Kolaches.

Steps To Make This Recipe

A raw cinnamon roll strip rolled around a cooked breakfast sausage link on a silicone lined baking sheet. Ready to bake for Cinnamon Roll Kolaches.
A raw cinnamon roll strip rolled around a cooked breakfast sausage link on a silicone lined baking sheet. Ready to bake for Cinnamon Roll Kolaches.
  • Cook the sausage links and allow them to cool.
  • Open the cinnamon rolls and separate them into individual pieces. 
  • Unroll each piece and cut the strip in half.
  • Roll each sausage with a half piece of dough and arrange on a baking sheet.
  • Bake until golden brown.
  • While hot, ice the top of each roll and allow the icing to glaze the kolache.
Close up view of a Cinnamon Roll Kolache cut in half to show the breakfst sausage link inside a cinnamon roll pastry.

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Cinnamon Roll Kolaches

Serving of a Cinnamon Roll Kolache on a pink plate with a baking sheet of kolaches in the background.
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If you’re a fan of sweet and savory together, then this breakfast treat is for you! Cinnamon Roll Kolaches are not only delicious but also very easy, with only two ingredients.

  • Author: mbrinkley3717
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 12 pieces 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: Texan

Ingredients

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1 package sausage links (I used maple breakfast links)

1 package Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls with the frosting

Instructions

Cook the sausage until it is no longer pink on the inside and is nicely browned on the outside. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.

Remove the cinnamon rolls from the package and separate each roll.

Unroll the dough and slice each in half so you have 12 pieces.

Wrap each sausage link in the dough, overlapping each turn. Roll the kolache in any of the cinnamon filling that has fallen off, and place it on the prepared baking sheet.

Repeat with the remaining sausage and dough strips.

Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and the dough is cooked through.

Lightly ice the tops of the hot kolaches with the icing, then serve them hot.