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12 Healthy Fall Baking Recipes with Sourdough

carrot cake, sourdough pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread —Whatever you’re craving, one of these healthy fall baking recipes with sourdough will hit the spot!

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12 Healthy Fall Baking Recipes with Sourdough

carrot cake, sourdough pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread —Whatever you’re craving, one of these healthy fall baking recipes with sourdough will hit the spot!

Healthy Fall Baking Recipes with Sourdough Starter

Sourdough Pumpkin Apple Bread with Cinnamon and Pecans

Want to warm up your house with the smells of fall and freshly baked bread? Then this rustic and slightly sweet sourdough pumpkin apple bread is for you!

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Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pumpkin and Pecans

The best sourdough cookies! These sourdough chocolate chip cookies are made with roasted pumpkin, pecans, and brown butter for fantastic texture and flavor.

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Honey Cinnamon Sourdough Graham Crackers Fermented Overnight

These honey cinnamon sourdough graham crackers are fermented overnight for easier digestion, using discard or active starter. Perfectly nutritious & delicious!

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Sweet Sourdough Pumpkin Bread With Cinnamon and Pecans

Sweet sourdough pumpkin bread is the most delicious pumpkin bread you will ever have. It’s a simple pumpkin sourdough bread with brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans.

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Sourdough Garlic Bread Dinner Rolls

Sourdough dinner rolls are the best way to make sourdough garlic bread! These pull-apart garlic bread rolls are ready to bake after 8 hours of fermentation.

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Sourdough Banana Bread with Sprouted Rye and Maple Syrup

I let my sourdough banana bread ferment and rise for hours. This is the best sourdough banana bread recipe, so flavorful and easy to digest!

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Fermented Sourdough Maple Pecan Granola

If you love maple and pecans, you’re going to enjoy this fermented sourdough maple pecan granola. Pair it with yogurt and fruit for a delicious breakfast.

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Buttery Flaky Sourdough Biscuits From Scratch

Use up some of that sourdough starter discard in these buttery, flaky, delicious sourdough biscuits! Packed with flavor from your tangy sourdough starter, these ultimate flaky buttermilk biscuits are the best you’ll ever have.

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The Best Maple Pecan and Cinnamon Sourdough Bread Recipe

This recipe is perfect for beginners and perfect for fall! I love making this nutty, spiced maple pecan and cinnamon sourdough bread all through autumn and winter. This recipe is for a slightly sweet, cinnamon pecan sourdough loaf baked in a dutch oven.

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Sourdough Carrot Cake Banana Bread

Bake some sourdough carrot cake banana bread this fall. My carrot cake banana bread incorporates shredded carrots & warm spices for the best autumn flavor.

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Freshly baked sourdough crackers with flaky sea salt pieces and rosemary, pile don a baking sheet. Zoomed in to show texture of the fully baked crackers

Buttery Rosemary Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers

These are the most buttery, flavorful, crisp sourdough crackers you will ever have! Once you try these crackers you’ll never want to do anything else with your sourdough starter discard. Enjoy these crunchy, flaky crackers with cheese and fruit for a perfect snack.

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Orange Cardamom Muffins with Sourdough Discard

These sourdough orange cardamom muffins are perfectly sweet and great for an easy breakfast. This recipe also has an option for apple cardamom muffins.

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Looking for More Recipes to Try this Fall?

  • Try our Eight Hearty and Healthy Fall Soup Recipes

Equipment and Ingredients to help you get started baking with sourdough:

  • Kitchen Scale
  • Parchment Paper
  • Weck Jars
  • Sea Salt
  • Organic Bread Flour
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And the knife stays in the box. GOOGLE “sourdoug And the knife stays in the box. 

GOOGLE “sourdough king cake” my recipe is the first one! 👑☂️💚✨

If you’re like me and prefer from scratch, homemade everything, you’ll definitely want to try this king cake for Mardi Gras! I used organic naturally dyed sprinkles and all that jazz too. 

If you just search “sourdough king cake” on google you’ll see my recipe, it’s usually the first one. 

My main tips for making this:
✨use a very active starter or throw in some instant yeast with your starter
✨make sure the dough is actually proofed before shaping it. If it’s cold in your house it will take longer. 
✨please follow directions! You can cold ferment the dough in the fridge after it doubles in size and BEFORE filling and shaping.

🎵Song is Casanova by Rebirth Brass Band
Fermentation is a gift from the microbes of this e Fermentation is a gift from the microbes of this earth.

When we had a food business, I could never shake the feeling that fermentation is not meant to be sold to you from a fluorescently lit grocery shelf in an endless cycle of waste. Fermentation is meant to be cultivated in your home, with your hands, with intention and love in a sustainable, grateful practice of reciprocity and nourishment. 

This is the story of how we got here. 

After so many lessons learned, our small fermentation business is now value aligned, peaceful, fulfilling, and happy.  It often seems like the gut feelings (the microbes within us) guided us in the right direction. To teach. 

You can learn for free on our blog, or you can enroll in our online courses (we extended our new year sale!) Either way, with me as your teacher, you’ll learn to adopt a holistic perspective on the microbial ecosystems that influence our food, lives, and the planet.
My favorite topic I teach in our online course is My favorite topic I teach in our online course is called Fermentation Variables. The whole lesson is centered around the fact that there are six main variables that influence the outcome of fermentation.

Here they are, in no particular order:

Sugar
Salt
Oxygen
Acidity
Temperature
Time

Temperature and time depend on each other most closely. 

that means, for all of our foods and drinks that ferment at room temp, things slow way down in the winter cold. 

The fermentation timeline is simply longer when it’s colder (and faster when it’s hotter). The microbes, kind of like us, make things happen slowly in the cold winter. 

I think this is yet another sign from nature that we’re supposed to rest and be gentle and gracious with deadlines, work, and not rush things this time of year. 

Let it be slow, it’ll still be great, it just takes a little more patience and time. 

If you’re looking to start fermentation as an analog hobby in the new year, our courses are 40% off right now! You can use code NEWYEARS at checkout. (Yes, you learn online, but it’s delicious, long form content + the skills are life long). What you learn empowers you to get off the computer/phone and go ferment some delicious foods and drinks. 

Touching cabbage and dough is just as good as “touching grass” lol 

Let me know if you have questions about our courses or just fermentation in general in the comments!

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Yes cooking kills the microbes, but idc. I mean, I Yes cooking kills the microbes, but idc. I mean, I care, but in a “thank you for your service microbes” kinda way. 🫡

Cider braised pork and sauerkraut is a perfect choice for New Year’s or any winter meal! I lovvveee pairing it with butternut squash polenta bc it’s full of vitamin C for cold and flu szn. 

Eating pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day is a tradition. And I really do think it brings good luck and prosperity.

Get the recipe on our blog, linked in my profile and in story highlights! 

I’m really looking forward to creating more recipes like this in the new year, to show you all the joys of incorporating ferments into meals and recipes 😌✨ stay tuned! 

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One Christmas I gifted everyone in my family the N One Christmas I gifted everyone in my family the New York style sourdough bagels and they were thrilled. (The bagels we’re actually way under proofed, but I still gifted them and everyone loved them lol)

You can get the full recipe on my blog! And these can be made with discard and instant yeast or with just active starter.

 All the details are in the 5-star rated recipe on my website. 

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This cookie dough is long-fermented overnight in t This cookie dough is long-fermented overnight in the fridge for the softest, most flavorful, melt-in your mouth sourdough gingerbread cookies.

For Christmas 2025, I tried something new with these cookies. I created a gingerbread sourdough starter to use in this recipe! I made it by feeding some of my established starter a mix that includes molasses and gingerbread spices. I just added the instructions for the gingerbread starter in the notes of my cookie recipe.

Get the full recipe and directions on my website! https://cultured.guru 

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