How many calories are in a kolache?
One bakery kolache, the 4-1/4 inch round with a dimple of fruit in the middle, weighs 71 g and carries 263 calories. Per 100 g the pastry runs 371 calories. That puts a single sweet kolache in the same range as a glazed donut, and a 7-inch large at 527.
You'd need to walk about 53 minutes to burn the 263 calories in one pastry (71 g).
How long does it take to burn off a kolache?
One pastry (71 g) is 263 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
lb
| Activity | Time to burn 263 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 53 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 33 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 38 min |
| Jogging | 31 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 58 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (71 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Kolache quick facts
- US servings from one ounce to a 7-inch large
- Fruit cream cheese and sausage kolaches
- Cholesterol is the row to watch
- How does a kolache compare?
- Most popular kolache brands
- FAQ
Kolache quick facts
There is no USDA record called "kolache." The closest complete match for the sweet Czech-Texan pastry in the photo is SR Legacy 172755, "Danish pastry, fruit, enriched" — enriched sweet dough with a fruit center, and, usefully, a listed piece size of 71 g, which is what a bakery kolache actually weighs. It is the only row that carries the full set: sugars, cholesterol and potassium included.
So the numbers below describe a sweet fruit kolache made from enriched dough. A savory sausage or cheese kolache from a supermarket case is a different animal, and it gets its own section further down.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 pastry (71 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 371 | 263 | — |
| Total fat | 18.5 g | 13.1 g | 17% |
| Saturated fat | 4.86 g | 3.5 g | 17% |
| Carbohydrate | 47.8 g | 33.9 g | 12% |
| Dietary fiber | 1.9 g | 1.3 g | 5% |
| Total sugars | 27.53 g | 19.5 g | — |
| Protein | 5.4 g | 3.8 g | 8% |
| Sodium | 445 mg | 316 mg | 14% |
| Cholesterol | 114 mg | 81 mg | 27% |
| Potassium | 83 mg | 59 mg | 1% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two rows you would see on a bakery label are missing here: added sugars and trans fat. USDA does not publish either value for this record, so they are left out rather than guessed at. The FDA's Daily Value reference is what the percentage column is measured against.
The sodium number surprises people who file kolaches under dessert. 316 mg in one pastry is roughly a seventh of a teaspoon of table salt, baked into something that tastes only of fruit and sugar.
US servings from one ounce to a 7-inch large
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 105 kcal |
| One small or frozen kolache, about 3 in | 35 g | 130 kcal |
| One piece, 1/8 of a 15 oz ring | 53 g | 197 kcal |
| One bakery kolache, 4-1/4 in | 71 g | 263 kcal |
| One large, about 7 in | 142 g | 527 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 371 kcal |
Every one of those weights except the 100 g line is a household measure USDA lists on the record itself, so the piece sizes are not invented. The spread is the point. A 7-inch kolache from the case at a Texas bakery is exactly twice the dough of the standard round, and it lands at 527 calories — a third of a light day's eating, in one hand, with a napkin.
The frozen supermarket kind sits at the other end. At 35 g it is 130 calories, and two of them still come in under one bakery pastry. If you log by name rather than by weight, this is where the count goes wrong: "kolache" covers a 35 g puck and a 142 g slab in the same word.
Fruit cream cheese and sausage kolaches
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit kolache, bakery size | 371 kcal | 1 pastry, 71 g | 263 kcal |
| Fruit kolache, small | 371 kcal | 1 small, 56 g | 208 kcal |
| Frosted sweet roll with fruit | 379 kcal | 1 small, 54 g | 205 kcal |
| Unenriched fruit Danish | 371 kcal | 1 pastry, 71 g | 263 kcal |
| Cinnamon sweet roll with raisins | 372 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 105 kcal |
| Sausage kolache, store-made | 339 kcal | 1 kolache, 56 g | 190 kcal |
The 56 g and 54 g pieces are our own arithmetic from the USDA per-100-g figures, not USDA serving sizes; the 71 g and 28 g rows come straight off the records.
Frosting adds less than you would expect. The frosted sweet roll with fruit is 379 calories per 100 g against 371 for the plain kolache, an eight-calorie gap. What frosting really moves is sugar: 36.63 g per 100 g against 27.53 g, about 9 g more in every 100 g of pastry.
Savory kolaches — a klobasnek, if you want the correct Czech word for the sausage one — are lighter per gram and heavier in salt. Kroger's Original Kolaches are 339 calories per 100 g, or 190 for one 56 g piece, and Owens Smoked Sausage kolaches 298 per 100 g, 170 for a 57 g piece. H-E-B's cheese version matches Owens at 298, while Mitchell's cheese-and-sausage piece is bigger at 85 g and 260 calories, and Kolache Rolf's Sausage Bites 230 for 71 g. The lightest whole kolache anywhere on this page is Rolf's cream cheese kolache: 120 calories, because it weighs only 35 g.
Then the sodium flips. The sweet fruit kolache holds 316 mg in a 71 g pastry. A Kroger sausage kolache, 15 g lighter and 73 calories cheaper, carries about 430 mg. Choosing savory to "save calories" buys you 73 calories and costs you a third more salt.
One more record worth naming: the unenriched version of the same fruit Danish. Same 371 calories, same 18.5 g of fat, but USDA lists it at 354 mg of sodium and 2.83 g of saturated fat per 100 g instead of 445 mg and 4.86 g, and publishes no total sugars figure for it at all. Two records, one pastry, different laboratories and decades — a reminder that the second decimal place on any baked good is a fiction.
Cholesterol is the row to watch
Calories are not the interesting line here. Cholesterol is. One 71 g kolache carries 81 mg, which is 27% of the Daily Value, and it gets there because the dough is rich with egg and butter rather than because the pastry is large. Two kolaches with coffee and you have spent more than half the day's reference amount before 9 a.m.
Saturated fat behaves the same way: 3.5 g in one pastry, 17% of the DV, from a food most people would call a fruit item. Fiber, meanwhile, is 1.3 g, or 5%. That ratio — high saturated fat, low fiber — is the shape of an enriched-flour pastry, and it is why MyPlate counts refined grains separately from whole ones.
None of that makes a kolache a bad breakfast. It makes it a treat that eats like a meal. If you are watching saturated fat, the small 35 g version at 130 calories and roughly half the fat does the job of the flavor without the arithmetic.
How does a kolache compare?
| Pastry | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories | P / C / F per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolache, fruit | 371 kcal | one pastry, 71 g | 263 kcal | 5.4 / 47.8 / 18.5 |
| Cinnamon sweet roll with raisins | 372 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 105 kcal | 6.2 / 50.9 / 16.4 |
| Toaster pastry, brown sugar cinnamon | 370 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 105 kcal | 4.06 / 72.64 / 7.98 |
| Danish pastry, lemon | 371 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 105 kcal | 5.4 / 47.8 / 18.5 |
Our take: per gram these four are indistinguishable — 370, 371, 371 and 372 calories per 100 g, a two-calorie spread across the whole table. What separates them is what the calories are made of and how big a piece you get handed. The toaster pastry gets there mostly through carbohydrate, 72.64 g per 100 g with only 7.98 g of fat; the kolache gets there through fat, 18.5 g, more than double the toaster pastry's. For weight loss the deciding factor is portion, not pastry: a 35 g small kolache at 130 calories beats any of these in the size you are actually served. For staying full, none of them will do it — 5.4 g of protein per 100 g is not a breakfast, and pairing the kolache with eggs or yogurt does more for the morning than swapping it for a different pastry.
Most popular kolache brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Kolache Rolf's Kolache Sausage Bites | 324 cal |
| Kroger Original Kolaches | 339 cal |
| Owens Kolaches Smoked Sausage | 298 cal |
| H-E-B Cheese Kolaches | 298 cal |
| Mitchell's Kolaches Cheese Sausage | 306 cal |
| Kolache Rolf's Cream Cheese Kolaches | 343 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Kolache FAQs
How many calories are in a kolache?
A bakery fruit kolache of 71 g carries 263 calories, working out to 371 calories per 100 g. Store-made sausage kolaches sit lower per piece because they weigh less: a Kroger one is 190 calories for 56 g. A 7-inch large fruit kolache is 527.
How many calories are in a sausage kolache?
A store sausage kolache runs 170 to 260 calories depending on size: 170 for an Owens smoked sausage piece of 57 g, 190 for a Kroger kolache of 56 g, 230 for Rolf's sausage bites at 71 g and 260 for a Mitchell's cheese-and-sausage piece of 85 g. The dough is the same; the scale sets the number.
How many calories are in a fruit kolache?
263 calories for a bakery-size fruit kolache of 71 g, and 208 for a small one of 56 g. Per 100 g the pastry is 371 calories, with 19.5 g of sugars and 13.1 g of fat in the bakery size. A frosted sweet roll with fruit is close: 205 for 54 g.
How many calories are in a cream cheese kolache?
A cream cheese kolache is 343 calories per 100 g, and Kolache Rolf's sells a 35 g piece at 120 calories. That is the lightest kolache on this page per piece, but only because it weighs half what a bakery fruit kolache does, and that one is 263 calories.
Are kolaches healthy?
One kolache is 263 calories with 3.5 g of saturated fat, 17% of the Daily Value, and 81 mg of cholesterol, 27%. Fiber is 1.3 g, or 5%. It behaves like a treat rather than a grain serving, which is why MyPlate counts refined-flour pastries apart from whole grains.
How much protein is in a kolache?
3.8 g of protein in a 71 g fruit kolache, which is 8% of the Daily Value, or 5.4 g per 100 g. That is low for a breakfast of this size. A sausage kolache does better, since the meat brings protein that a spoonful of fruit filling cannot.
How many carbs are in a kolache?
33.9 g of carbohydrate in one 71 g kolache, 12% of the Daily Value, and 19.5 g of that is sugars. Per 100 g the pastry holds 47.8 g of carbohydrate against only 1.9 g of fiber, so nearly all of it is starch and sugar rather than anything filling.
Kolache vs klobasnek: which has more calories?
263 calories for the sweet fruit kolache of 71 g, against 190 for a store sausage version of 56 g. In Texas the savory one is properly a klobasnek, though almost every counter calls it a kolache. Per gram the sweet one is still heavier: 371 calories per 100 g against 339.
Similar foods
- Salami — 102 cal for 3 slices
- Summer Sausage — 203 cal for 4 slices
- Coconut — 283 cal per cup, shredded
- Torta — 215 cal per serving
- Prime Rib — 340 cal for 3 oz slice
- Brie — 95 cal per oz
Count it without the math
Point the camera at the plate and BodyPal counts the kolache for you, filling and all.
