Sourdough Dessert Recipes
Sweet ways to use up starter — lemon crinkle cookies, sourdough brownies, brown butter banana bread, cheese bread — for the jar in your fridge tonight.
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snackIngredients
- 1/2 cup sourdough discard
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- 1Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 2In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
- 3Add the egg, sourdough discard, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Mix until combined.
- 4In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until a soft dough forms.
- 5Scoop the dough into tablespoon-sized balls and roll each ball in powdered sugar until fully coated.
- 6Place the coated dough balls onto the prepared baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches apart.
- 7Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are set and the tops have a crinkled appearance.
- 8Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- 9Dust with extra powdered sugar if desired and enjoy!
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Open in Pepper →That Jar Of Discard Deserves Better
If you keep a starter going, you know the guilt of pouring good discard down the drain. It bakes into cookies and brownies with a little tang that plain batter never gets, and it costs you nothing extra.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on feeding day, when there's a cup of discard sitting in the fridge and about an hour before anybody starts asking what's for dessert.
Every recipe here uses that jar: Sourdough Discard Lemon Crinkle Cookies, Sourdough Brownies, brown butter chocolate chip sourdough cookies, Sourdough Banana Bread with brown butter, plus savory ones like Sourdough Discard Cheese Bread and pull-apart garlic bread.
Quick Tips
- 1
Bring discard to room temperature
Cold discard straight from the fridge seizes butter and makes lumpy batter. Set the jar out 30 to 45 minutes before you start.
- 2
Brown the butter slowly
Melt butter over medium-low for 5 to 7 minutes until it smells nutty and the bits turn golden, then cool it 10 minutes before mixing.
- 3
Chill the cookie dough
Discard doughs spread fast. Thirty minutes in the fridge keeps lemon crinkles thick and holds the powdered sugar cracks.
- 4
Underbake the brownies
Pull them at 25 to 30 minutes when the center still jiggles slightly, then cool at least 1 hour before cutting.
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