10 Best Sourdough Breakfast Recipes
Your sourdough starter can do more than bread! Try these fun sourdough b breakfast recipes, from coffee cake and muffins to donuts and pastries!
Your sourdough starter can do so much more than make a loaf of bread!
From fluffy pancakes and tender muffins to chewy bagels and cozy coffee cake, there are so many delicious ways to turn sourdough starter or discard into breakfast.
Whether you have an active starter bubbling on your counter or a jar of discard hanging in the back of the fridge, these easy sourdough breakfast recipes are some of my favorite ways to put it to good use!
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Sourdough Discard Pancakes
Sourdough pancakes are fluffy, tender and just tangy enough to make them more interesting than your standard pancake mix. They're also one of my favorite low-stress ways to use discard because you mix the batter at night and then finish it off in the morning. Add berries or chocolate chips if desired!
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Sourdough Blueberry Bagels
Homemade bagels sound complicated but they are easier than you think! These sourdough blueberry bagels are chewy, lightly sweet and packed with blueberries. Prep the dough the day before and you'll be ready for a seriously good breakfast the best morning!
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Sourdough Peach Muffins
fresh peaches + discard + crumble topping? Do I even need to convince you further? These sourdough peach muffins are soft and tender and are a great choice when you want something that feels special but are easy to make.
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Sourdough Coffee Cake Recipe
Sourdough coffee cake is soft, cozy, and ridiculously good any time of day. This is an easy recipe to make because it doesn't need any fermentation time or complicated techniques. Mix, bake, and eat!
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Overnight Sourdough Discard Waffles
Crispy on the outside, fluffy on in the inside, and an excellent excuse to cover breakfast in maple syrup! Sourdough waffles are a great overnight way to turn discard into something the whole family will be excited to see in the morning. Make them rest for a weekend breakfast or freeze extras so future you has homemade waffles ready for busy mornings !
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Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
When you have more time and you want breakfast to feel like an event, make sourdough cinnamon rolls! This soft sourdough dough is wrapped around buttery cinnamon-sugar filling and topped with icing. Perfect for holidays, birthdays, lazy weekends or any breakfast that could benefit from cinnamon rolls! Which, is most mornings, really.
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Sourdough Banana Bread
Sourdough banana bread is most, tender, and an easy way to add discard to a family favorite. It's great for breakfast, after school snacks, or slicing directly from the loaf anytime you walk into the kitchen. You know how banana bread works!
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Sourdough Danish Pastries
These sourdough pastries are a fun weekend baking project! With flaky, buttery layers and plenty of room for your favorite fillings, sourdough Danish pastries are perfect when you want to see what your starter can really do. Fill them with fruit, cream cheese, or whatever sounds good and serve them for brunch, holidays, or a morning when regular toast simply won't cut it.
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Sourdough Poptarts
Homemade pop-tarts are already fun! Make them with sourdough discard and they are even better. These toaster pastries have a flaky homemade pastry crust wrapped around a sweet filling and finished with icing on top. They're nostalgic, completely customizable, and exactly the kind of recipe that make you look the jar of sourdough starter and think – wait, what else can I make with this thing?
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Old Fashioned Sourdough Donuts
Yes, your starter can make donuts, too! Sourdough donuts are soft, fluffy and such a fun way to turn your starter into something completely different from another loaf of bread. Glaze them, toss in cinnamon sugar, or pile on your favorite toppings for a weekend breakfast that will disappear very quickly.
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Sourdough doesn’t have to mean spending your entire weekend babysitting a loaf of bread. Sometimes it means pancakes. Sometimes it means donuts!
Try one of these sourdough breakfast recipes the next time you feed your starter and see what else your starter can do!
