The Sweet Side of Sourdough: 50 Irresistible Recipes for Pastries, Buns, Cakes, Cookies and More

by Caroline Schiff

Overview

Transform Your Idea of What Sourdough Baking Can Be

You’ve mastered a basic boule and perhaps ventured into a savory sourdough focaccia, but have you tried your hand at a scrumptious Peach and Ricotta Focaccia or decadent Orange-Pistachio Caramel Sticky Buns? Pastry Chef extraordinaire Caroline Schiff is here to show you all the creative (and delicious!) ways you can put your sourdough starter—both active starter and discard—to good use in recipes sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Add a unique layer of flavor to mouthwatering pies and tarts like Apple- Maple Crumble Pie, Malted Milk and Dark Chocolate Tart and Blueberry– Lemon Thyme Cobbler. Transform your favorite breakfast pastries into the things of your sourdough dreams with recipes like Salted Dark Chocolate Chunk Scones, Caramelized Blueberry-Basil Blintzes and Lemon Sugar Crêpes. And enhance your next celebration with showstopping cakes like Tangerine Dream Cake, Apple–Sour Cream Crumb Cake and Olive Oil, Cherry and Almond Torte.

With all of Caroline’s tips and tricks for building and maintaining a sourdough starter as well as a host of crowd-pleasing desserts, sweet breads and naturally leavened pastries, this book is sure to open your eyes to new, exciting sourdough recipes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645674221
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	80,651
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Caroline Schiff is the Executive Pastry Chef at Gage & Tollner in Brooklyn and the creator of the Instagram account Pastry Schiff. She has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, New York Magazine and more. Caroline lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Making a Starter and Building a Levain 11

Sweet Breads, Buns and Loaves 19

Honey-Glazed Pull-Apart Bread 20

Dark Chocolate-Walnut Boule 23

Lemon-Poppy Cream Cheese Babka 26

Cinnamon-Caramel Challah Knots 29

Orange-Pistachio Caramel Sticky Buns 32

Earl Grey Brown Butter Buns 35

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Glazed Buns 38

Sesame Honey Boule 41

Peach and Ricotta Focaccia 44

Salted Honey Focaccia 47

Toasted Hazelnut-Coffee Banana Bread 50

Biscuits, Scones and Morning Sweets 53

Sourdough Doughnuts 55

Caramelized Blueberry-Basil Blintzes 57

Sweet Cream Biscuits 61

Jammy Ricotta Drops 62

Lemon-Almond Crème Fraîche Scones 65

Lemon Sugar Crepes 67

Salted Dark Chocolate Chunk Scones 71

Sweet and Sour Cherry Dutch Baby 72

Fluffy Sunday Pancakes 75

Pumpkin Muffins 76

Jane's Morning Glory Muffins 79

Pies, Tarts, Cobblers and Crumbles 81

Blueberry-Lemon Thyme Cobbler 83

Malted Milk and Dark Chocolate Tart 84

Spiced Pear, Crème Fraîche and Almond Galette 87

Walnut-Maple Black Cocoa Tart 90

Apple-Maple Crumble Pie 93

Summer Fruit Marzipan Crumble 96

Blackberry-Pistachio Frangipane Tart 99

Baked or Fried Apple-Ginger Hand Pies 100

Honey-Nut Halvah Tart 105

Cookies, Bars and Sweet Little Bites 107

Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies 109

Salted Rye-Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies 111

Cardamom and Lemon Oatmeal Lace Cookies 115

Hazelnut, White Chocolate and Rosemary Shortbread 116

Millionaire Rye Shortbread Bars with Whiskey Toffee 119

Chewy Coconut-Cashew Bars 122

Lemon Meringue Oat Bars 124

Fig-Dark Chocolate Brownies 127

Clever Cakes 129

Apple-Sour Cream Crumb Cake 131

Espresso-Chocolate Bundt Cake with Salted Caramel Glaze 133

Blood Orange-Hazelnut Crumb Cake 137

Walnut-Coconut Carrot Cake 139

Caramelized Grapefruit Brown Sugar Cake 143

Milk Chocolate-Caramel Gateau Breton 145

Tangerine Dream Cake 149

Apricot, Chèvre, Rye and Almond Upside-Down Cake 152

Raspberry-Coconut Cake with Lime Glaze 155

Olive Oil, Cherry and Almond Torte 158

Honeyed Persimmon, Buckwheat and Pecan Upside-Down Cake 161

Acknowledgments 162

About the Author 163

Index 164

Editorial Reviews

Caroline Schiff has let her pastry chef brain run wild inventing creative uses for sourdough starter. I particularly love the way she uses this tangy, living ferment to add texture and flavor to cakes, cookies and pies.”
—Dana Cowin, founder of Giving Broadly and former longtime editor in chief of Food & Wine

“The recipes in this book will expand any sourdough baker’s repertoire in ways they didn’t know they needed.”
—Erin Jeanne McDowell, author of The Book on Pie

“In this collection of tempting recipes, Caroline will make you see sourdough in a whole new light. I can’t wait to bake my way through these recipes.”
—Yossy Arefi, author of Snacking Cakes and Sweeter off the Vine

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