Dining
BY KAREN CHANEY
Frisco residents Jake and Courtney Poulsen opened Kolache Shoppe in January 2024.
A popular kolache on the menu is the sausage, egg and cheese ($4).
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Fruit kolaches ($2) are available in cherry, lemon, peach and strawberry.
sausage and gravy; sausage and cheese; bacon, egg and cheese; venison and Tender brisket. Sweet best sellers are cream cheese, Nutella and cinnamon rolls. The kitchen sta arrives at 3 a.m., to make the dough, prepare the llings and the kolaches. It takes six hours to make about 1,500 kolaches. Because all kolaches are made fresh daily, they o er a buy-one-get-one deal the last hour the store is open. “We don’t keep anything,” Courtney Poulsen said. “We partner with Neighbors Nourishing Neighbors, a food bank in Prosper, and donate our extras to them. They actually just had a re so we just did a fundraising e ort for them.”
Soon after Jake and Courtney Poulsen, along with Courtney’s parents, Cindy and Gary Mechler, opened a Kolache Shoppe franchise in Celina in January 2024, they started forging partnerships with Celina restaurants to source ingredients. Although the bakery is a franchise based in Houston, franchisees are given creative license to
ri on avors. On the menu
Some of the popular kolache specials featuring local avors have been the wagyu cheeseburger from The Forge 1912, brisket chili from Toasted Wal- nut, coconut cream pie from Lucy’s on the Square and bourbon pecan pie from Rollertown. Best selling non-special savory options include
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