Sourdough Discard Recipes

This collection of sourdough discard recipes is your go-to for finding delicious ways to use your discard after feeding your sourdough starter. Don't throw it out! Instead, use it to make something delicious. For a morning meal to remember, make a batch of fluffy Sourdough Discard Pancakes or cinnamon pull-apart Monkey Bread.

Savory sourdough discard rolls in a parchment lined basket.

A blue casserole dish filled with sourdough bread pudding that is being scooped out with a silver spoon.

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Two sourdough chocolate chip scones drizzled with chocolate ganache. There is a plate of scones in the background, as well as a coffee in a white mug.

The Best Sourdough Chocolate Chip Scones Ever!

Black enamel Dutch Oven full of chicken soup with 12 sourdough dumplings floating on the top.

Easy Sourdough Dumplings [quick discard + overnight methods]

4 sourdough discard cowboy cookies on a blue stoneware plate. There is a glass of milk in the background and some cookie crumbs around the edges of the plate.

Sourdough Discard Cowboy Cookies [full of rolled oats, pecans + coconut]

Sourdough discard coffee cake with a cinnamon pecan streusel topping. The cake is shown photographed from above and served with whipped cream.

Simple Sourdough Discard Coffee Cake [with cinnamon pecan streusel topping]

How to add sourdough discard to any recipe - including this cinnamon coffee cake. The coffee cake has been cut up into pieces and is sitting with a bowl of double cream.

How To Add Sourdough Discard To Any Recipe

Sourdough discard mug cake served in a stoneware mug. The photo is taken above the mug so you can see the top of the mug cake with a fresh red raspberry on top.

Sourdough Discard Mug Cake [quick sourdough recipe]

Loaf of sourdough Irish soda bread sitting on a board. There are a few slices of bread with butter and jam and a blue dish towel in the background.

Irish Soda Bread Sourdough (quick sourdough recipe)

Sourdough thumbprint cookies sitting in front of a bowl of raspberry jam. There is a red and white dish cloth in the background and a wooden box.

Sourdough Thumbprint Cookies [with jam]

Sourdough apple pie displayed on a round wooden tray. A slice has been cut from the apple pie and there is a silver pie slice sitting in the dish. The dish is surrounded by 5 green granny smith apples, a bowl of whipped cream and a dish with a serve of apple pie and whipped cream.

Sourdough Apple Pie [with short crust sourdough pastry]

Sourdough pie crust shown unbaked, before it goes into the oven. Starts have been cut out of excess pastry and stuck to the top of the pie crust.

Sourdough Pie Crust [sweet or savory sourdough pastry]

Sourdough sugar cookies decorated with white fondant stars sitting on a black wire rack.

Sourdough Sugar Cookies [cut out + decorate]

Buttery and flaky sourdough biscuits displayed on a wooden paddle smothered in apricot jam and butter.

Sourdough Biscuits [buttery + flaky]

SOURDOUGH BANANA WAFFLES

Sourdough Banana Waffles or Pancakes

Sourdough Cornbread Muffins sitting in a muffin tray and served with whipped honey cinnamon butter

Sourdough Cornbread Muffins

Sourdough Elephant Ears dusted in cinnamon sugar. There is a dish of chocolate sauce and crushed walnuts in the picture too.

Sourdough Elephant Ears

A tray of orange cranberry sourdough muffins decorated with dehydrated orange slices and dusted with powdered sugar.

Orange Cranberry Sourdough Muffins

Baked cinnamon raisin sourdough bagels arranged on a black cooling rack.

Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bagels

A pile of sourdough rye bagels topped with ground oats.

Easy Sourdough Rye Bagels

SOURDOUGH PUMPKIN WAFFLES

Sourdough Pumpkin Waffles

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