$5 for $10 Worth of Baked Goods, Coffee, and More at Kolache Kreations in Ellicott City

The first European explorers set sail with hopes of finding new, exotic spices to placate the palates of epicurious monarchs, but all they found were heaps of inedible gold. Pick up where they left off by broadening your mouth's horizons with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of baked goods, coffee, and more at Kolache Kreations in Ellicott City.

Kolache Kreations adapts generations-old eastern European recipes to bake up fresh, circular pastry bundles loaded with sweet and savory fillings complemented by a menu of coffee drinks and more. Kolache's Old World wizards start with slightly sweet dough and tuck the tender foundation around scrumptious stuffings of fresh fruit, meats, cheeses, or an infinite series of incrementally smaller kolaches.

Surprise unsuspecting taste buds with the portable palatability of the traditional cream-cheese or blueberry kolaches ($2 each), or mow down a cluster of italian-sausage-and-cheese kolaches ($2.25). The bakery also serves up more familiar snacks such as fresh cinnamon rolls ($2), cream-cheese crumb cake ($2), and chocolate-reverie inducing brownies ($2). Vanilla and mocha lattes ($3.15 for a small; $3.85 for a large) steam alongside loose-leaf teas at Kolache Kreations' coffee and espresso bar, and tapioca-pearled bubble teas allow patrons to complement a well-rounded meal with a sphere-enhanced beverage ($3.50 for a small; $4.25 for a medium).

Reviews

Ellicott City Patch, HowChow and Village Connector all positively reviewed Kolache Kreations:

• They make their dough daily from scratch, using the finest, freshest ingredients. – Tammy Bowers, Village Connector
• It's all yeast, and that flavor went great with the sausage stuffed in the savory kolache that I ordered. – HowChow