These sourdough discard desserts are the perfect way to satisfy a sweet tooth and use up discard. From cake to cookies to everything in between, discover the magic of sourdough in everything you bake.
Whether you are just starting your sourdough starter or have had one for years, these dessert recipes are for you.
Sourdough discard adds a delicious flavor and texture to your favorite desserts. Think everything from baked sourdough donuts to sourdough chocolate cake.
There is never a reason to simply throw out your discard when there are so many recipes to try! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do at the farmhouse.
Sourdough Discard Desserts
Sourdough brownies have a rich chocolate flavor, fudgy texture, and a signature sourdough kick. Whip them up in an afternoon or long ferment them overnight.
Sourdough Brownies
These easy baked sourdough donuts are a delicious cake-like donut with a vanilla icing. The perfect special treat for a birthday or just a fun weekend. This recipe is super easy and fast to make, or you can do a long fermented version for more health benefits.
Sourdough Donuts
Rich and decadent, sourdough bread pudding is the ultimate comforting dessert. A creamy custard spiced with cinnamon is poured over homemade sourdough brioche and topped with raisins before baking. Drizzled with a sweet bread pudding sauce to serve.
Sourdough Bread Pudding
With rich cream cheese icing and a cinnamon-sugar filling, these fluffy sourdough cinnamon rolls deliver tangy flavor, a tender texture, and warm, gooey sweetness.
Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
This sourdough chocolate cake recipe is rich, delicious, healthier, and a more nutritious take on your classic dessert. Start the night before to ferment the grains, develop the flavors, and make the cake easier to digest.
Sourdough Chocolate Cake
This irresistible sourdough peanut butter cookie recipe is soft, sweet, and full of peanut butter flavor. This is the perfect way to use up extra sourdough starter discard.
Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies
These soft and chewy sourdough oatmeal cookies are a super yummy treat packed with plump raisins and a hint of cinnamon. Whip them up for a quick dessert or long ferment them for better digestibility.
Sourdough Oatmeal Cookies
Buttery, crunchy, and delicious, you’ll be making these sourdough shortbread cookies on repeat! Made with pantry staples and sourdough discard, it’s a simple, sweet treat that is great all year round!
Sourdough Shortbread Cookies
Sourdough coffee cake is a sweet, vanilla cake with hints of sourdough, a cinnamon sugar filling, and a buttery crumb topping. An easy favorite, this delicious cake serves well as dessert or an exceptional breakfast treat.
Sourdough Coffee Cake
With layers of fresh whipped cream and juicy strawberries sandwiched between rustic, sweetened sourdough biscuits, this delicious sourdough strawberry shortcake is the perfect summer dessert.
Sourdough Strawberry Shortcake
Sourdough peach cobbler is a delicious summertime dessert made with fresh peaches and topped with lightly-sweetened tender sourdough biscuits.
Sourdough Peach Cobbler
A sweet, tastefully tart cherry filling topped with tangy, sourdough topping makes this sourdough cherry cobbler completely irresistible. Topped with ice cream or whipped cream, this dessert is extra special and perfect for holidays.
Sourdough Cherry Cobbler
Strawberry cream cheese cobbler tastes like summer. A buttery and sweet sourdough crust is topped with ripe strawberries and cream cheese, a mouthwatering blend of creamy strawberry goodness.
Sourdough Strawberry Cobbler
Sourdough blueberry cobbler combines fresh or frozen blueberries with butter and a hint of sweetness, topped with sourdough biscuits and baked until golden brown. This irresistible dessert is a family favorite.
Sourdough Blueberry Cobbler
Sourdough pumpkin cobbler is the perfect fall dessert or breakfast. Warm, spiced, organic pumpkin filling is topped with sweet sourdough biscuits. Top with ice cream to make this pumpkin dessert irresistible.
Sourdough Pumpkin Cobbler
Made from scratch, this sourdough carrot cake is quick and easy, moist and delicious. Topped with a decadent cream cheese frosting, it’s easily one of our favorite cakes.
Sourdough Carrot Cake
Light, sweet, and buttery, this sourdough vanilla cake is a great way to use up extra sourdough discard. Topped with homemade buttercream frosting, this makes the best birthday cake.
Sourdough Vanilla Cake
Sourdough discard cinnamon bread completes a delicious breakfast and is also wonderful served to guests with a cup of coffee. With options for a quick or long-fermented loaf, you’ll enjoy tangy notes in each bite of this cinnamon-flavored sweet bread.
Sourdough Cinnamon Bread
This sourdough blueberry bread is the perfect combination of sweet blueberries and sour lemon flavor. Topped with a butter and sugar crumble and made with sourdough discard, it’s an easy and quick recipe to whip up for brunch or as a mid afternoon sweet treat.
Sourdough Blueberry Bread
Sourdough blondies combine the richness of butter, sweet brown sugar, tangy sourdough, and other simple ingredients to make the perfect dessert.
Sourdough Blondies
Sourdough Chocolate Chip Bread is a tender and tangy sliceable loaf, full of buttery flavor and dotted with sweet, melty chocolate.
Sourdough Chocolate Chip Bread
A mouth-watering sourdough lemon bread made with tangy discard and lots of vibrant lemon flavor enveloped in a thick, soft layer of sweet lemony glaze.
Sourdough Lemon Bread
Fermented sourdough chocolate cupcakes are a decadent and deliciously rich chocolate cake topped with cream cheese buttercream frosting. Great for a birthday celebration or a fun weekend dessert, the slight sourdough tang makes this recipe especially delicious.
Sourdough Chocolate Cupcakes
A classic treat with a sourdough spin, these sourdough oatmeal cream pies are decadent with a fluffy vanilla butter cream filling.
Sourdough Oatmeal Cream Pies
This sourdough pumpkin roll pairs fluffy, sweet, spiced sourdough cake with a delicious, cream cheese filling. Literally, the best fall treat.
Sourdough Pumpkin Roll
This pumpkin coffee cake is an autumn version of my favorite sourdough coffee cake. It takes the sweet vanilla batter and incorporates warm spices and creamy pumpkin purée. A buttery cinnamon crumb tops the cake and is generously spread between the layers of batter for a delicious burst of flavor with each bite.
Sourdough Pumpkin Coffee Cake
A classic cake with a sourdough twist, this moist and tender sourdough Bundt cake boasts a rich, buttery vanilla flavor with the subtle tang of sourdough.
Sourdough Bundt Cake
Sourdough Biscotti is a delicious, twice-baked Italian cookie that is delightfully crunchy and perfectly sweet. Made with sourdough starter or discard, this almond biscotti pairs perfectly with your favorite latte.
Sourdough Biscotti
Sourdough monster cookies are perfectly sweet with added depth of flavor from sourdough discard. They are easy to make and oh so delicious.
Sourdough Monster Cookies
This sourdough apple cobbler is the perfect healthy apple treat for fall. With no white sugar, fermented grains, and whole ingredients, it can be served for both breakfast and dessert.
Sourdough Apple Cobbler
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How do you feed the discard every 7-10 days? How much water and flour?
I love your recipes. The discard coffee cake is my favorite! I recently found out I can’t have gluten anymore, and saw that you have tips for making a gluten free sourdough starter. I was wondering, once it is established, can you use the gluten free starter the same way in all of your recipes? Thanks!
Yes, you can!
Can I still preorder the sourdough cook book?
Yes. Here’s the link to preorder.
Can I have link too!
Hey Lisa,
I recently tried a sweet bread with herbs de Providence in it. I can’t remember if lime or lemon was in it. But it was delicious!
Have you tried something like this with the sourdough starter? I was hoping to try it, but I was wondering your thoughts.
Thanks and have a blessed day! God bless you in all your efforts!
I have a few different quick breads that I make. I have a lemon one. Here’s the link!
Do you have any more ebooks
These look so yummy! Thank you for sharing your list. Do you have a recipe for sourdough chocolate cobbler? It’s also called brownie pudding or chocolate fudge cake.
I don’t, but that sounds delicious!
Years ago I had a recipe for sour dough prune cake that was the best cake ever but I have lost the recipe. Do you have a recipe for a prune cake?
I don’t, but that would be a good recipe!