45+ Christmas Sourdough Recipes (Festive Holiday Bakes)
Nov 09, 2026
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There’s something so special about Christmas baking, especially when it’s something you get to share with family and friends! From homemade sourdough baked goods for gifting and festive Christmas cookie boxes to delicious recipes for your holiday table, there are so many ways to bring sourdough into the season. I’ve rounded up all my favorite sourdough Christmas recipes to make your holiday baking a little easier and a lot more delicious!
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If your sourdough starter could make a Christmas wish list, I think these recipes would be at the top! From festive Sourdough Sugar Cookies and Gingerbread Sourdough Scones to fluffy Sourdough Dinner Rolls and beautiful holiday Sourdough Star Bread, there are so many delicious ways to put your starter to work this holiday season.
Festive Christmas Bread Recipes
Sourdough Cinnamon Star Bread
This Sourdough Cinnamon Star Bread features a soft, fluffy dough layered with a buttery cinnamon sugar filling. Top with sweet cream cheese icing for a festive and irresistible treat.
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Sourdough Discard Nutella Star Bread
This Sourdough Discard Nutella Star Bread has soft layers of dough filled with sweet Nutella twisted together to create a beautiful star shape. With just one rise and a quick timeline, it’s an easy holiday bake that never fails to impress.
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Cheesy Sourdough Star Bread
This Cheesy Sourdough Star Bread is made with a soft dough layered with roasted garlic butter and melty mozzarella. Twisted into a beautiful star shape, it makes the perfect savory centerpiece for any holiday gathering.
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Sourdough Pizza Wreath
This Sourdough Pizza Wreath is a festive holiday appetizer filled with pizza flavor and mozzarella cheese that is sure to impress.
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Small Sourdough Loaf Recipe
Learn how to make mini sourdough bread loaves to try out multiple add-in flavor combinations or bake these mini loaves to give as a gift!
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Sourdough Monkey bread
Sweet and fluffy sourdough monkey bread coated in cinnamon sugar and baked until golden. A cozy breakfast or brunch favorite.
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Hot Chocolate Sourdough Focaccia
This decadent Hot Chocolate Sourdough Focaccia has a rich chocolate dough that is topped with a gooey toasted marshmallow layer and a sprinkle of crushed peppermint.
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Sourdough Gingerbread Cinnamon Roll Focaccia
This Sourdough Gingerbread Cinnamon Roll Focaccia is filled with warm spices, a swirl of cinnamon sugar, and topped with a tangy vanilla cream cheese icing.
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Cranberry Orange Sourdough Focaccia
This incredible Cranberry Orange Sourdough Focaccia features tart cranberries and tangy orange juice, topped with a buttery brown sugar streusel and white chocolate drizzle. The sweetness from the toppings combine with the tartness of the cranberries to create a mouth watering dessert bread.
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Stuffing Sourdough Focaccia
This Stuffing Sourdough Focaccia is so delicious stuffed with herbs, cranberries, onions, celery, and parmesan cheese. Reminiscent of the classic Thanksgiving side dish stuffing, this focaccia is packed full of herbs like rosemary, sage, and thyme.
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Sourdough Discard Dinner Rolls
Light, soft, and super fluffy, these Sourdough Discard Dinner Rolls deliver big buttery flavor in under 2 hours. With just one rise and a super quick prep, they’re the ideal recipe for busy nights or holiday meals.
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Sourdough Hawaiian Rolls Recipe
These Sourdough Hawaiian Rolls are sweet, fluffy, and super soft. They are filled with sweet, pineapple flavor and are made with sourdough discard and yeast so they can be made in just a few hours.
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Same Day Sourdough Dinner Rolls
These Sourdough Dinner Rolls are super soft, fluffy, and full of buttery flavor. They can be made in one day, making them a quick and easy sourdough recipe! Made with just 7 simple ingredients these rolls are sure to become your new go-to dinner roll.
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Sourdough Garlic Knots
These Sourdough Garlic Knots are soft, buttery and fluffy. Serve warm with marinara sauce for a perfect side dish for any occasion.
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Sourdough Christmas Cookies Recipes
Sourdough Discard Sugar Cookies
These Sourdough Discard Sugar Cookies are super soft and have a melt in your mouth texture that is so irresistible! This no-chill recipe is going to be your new holiday favorite.
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Sourdough Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe
These thick Sourdough Sugar Cookie Bars melt in your mouth. There’s no need to roll or cut out these; just press the dough into a pan and bake. Finish with buttercream frosting and sprinkles for a delicious, easy treat.
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White Chocolate Peppermint Sourdough Cookies
These White Chocolate Peppermint Sourdough Cookies taste like Christmas in every bite! They are soft and chewy and filled with white chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and crushed peppermint.
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Sourdough Chocolate Orange Cookies
These Sourdough Chocolate Orange Cookies are irresistibly soft and chewy, filled with melty chocolate chips and bright orange in every bite. Topped with a Terry’s Chocolate Orange slice, they deliver indulgent Christmas cookie flavor.
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Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
These Sourdough Peanut Butter Cookies are thick and chewy with the perfect amount of peanut butter flavor. The addition of brown butter takes them to the next level, adding a rich, nutty depth that makes every bite irresistible.
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Cookie Butter Sourdough Cookies
Spiced flavored cookies stuffed with Biscoff® cookies and white chocolate chips and topped with a cookie butter drizzle.
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Sourdough Snickerdoodles
These Sourdough Snickerdoodle Cookies have crisp edges, soft centers, and a sweet cinnamon sugar coating that’s impossible to resist. The sourdough discard adds the slightest tang and keeps them extra soft, making them even better than the classic cookie you grew up with.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Sourdough Cookies
These peanut butter chocolate sourdough cookies are incredibly chewy and fudgy, featuring a rich, brownie-like texture that makes them absolutely irresistible!
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Sourdough Cinnamon Roll Cookies
These sourdough cinnamon roll cookies are thick, chewy, and loaded with cinnamon flavor. Made with brown butter for a rich, nutty base, they come together easily without a mixer, then get swirled with cinnamon sugar and finished with a classic cream cheese icing.
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Sourdough Discard Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best ever sourdough chocolate chip cookie recipe! So soft, easy to make and addicting. Once you have these you'll be hooked!
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Sourdough Sprinkle Cookies
Soft, chewy and festive these vanilla-flavored sprinkle cookies are a delicious treat the whole family will enjoy.
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Christmas Morning Sourdough Recipes
French Toast Bake Recipe (Sourdough French Toast Bake)
If you want French Toast without all the mess, this recipe is for you! Cubes of Cinnamon Swirl Sourdough Bread covered in a sweet custard mixture, and then baked to perfection, creates the easiest and most indulgent breakfast.
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Sourdough Coffee Cake Recipe
This Sourdough Coffee Cake made in a bundt pan is a delicious sour cream breakfast cake with a thick ribbon of cinnamon sugar and walnuts swirled in the middle.
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Sourdough Sticky Buns
These Sourdough Sticky Buns have soft and fluffy buns that are filled with a sweet cinnamon filling and topped with a rich caramelized glaze with crunchy pecans. They are sweet, gooey, and irresistibly decadent!
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Sourdough Breakfast Casserole
If you’re looking for a healthy and nutritious breakfast casserole made with sourdough bread, eggs, vegetables, and cheese look no further. This hearty overnight egg bake is a crowd pleaser! Easy to customize with your favorite veggies, and can be made meatless or add in bacon, sausage, or ham for extra protein. This sourdough breakfast casserole is quick and easy to put together and makes for a filling and delicious breakfast.
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Cinnamon Roll Focaccia Recipe with Sourdough Starter
This Cinnamon Roll Sourdough Focaccia is soft and chewy with a sweet cinnamon sugar filling and a tangy cream cheese frosting.
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Sourdough Ham and Cheese Rolls
These Sourdough Ham and Cheese Rolls are soft and fluffy, stuffed with ham and melty Gruyère cheese, and topped with a savory sauce. They’re warm, cheesy, and packed with flavor.
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Sourdough Discard Waffles Recipe
Crisp on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside, these Sourdough Waffles are the perfect way to start your morning. Made with sourdough discard, they come together quickly and cook up golden in the waffle iron for an easy breakfast everyone will love.
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Sourdough Gingerbread Scones
Perfectly spiced with ginger and cinnamon, these Sourdough Gingerbread Scones taste just like Christmas. The warm spices and rich molasses give them that classic, comforting gingerbread flavor, and the maple glaze on top makes them extra special.
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Cranberry Orange Sourdough Scones
These Cranberry Orange Sourdough Scones are bursting with tart fresh cranberries, bright orange zest, and a sweet orange glaze. They’re soft, tender, and have a cake-like texture. It's everything you want in a festive holiday treat!
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Cranberry Orange Sourdough Muffins
These Cranberry Orange Sourdough Muffins are loaded with tart cranberries and fresh orange flavor. Drizzled with a sweet orange glaze that makes these muffins so delicious!
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Sourdough Starter Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls with a gooey cinnamon filling and topped with a cream cheese frosting. This recipe is the classic cinnamon roll you know and love naturally leavened with sourdough starter.
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Sourdough Discard Cinnamon Roll Recipe
These Sourdough Discard Cinnamon Rolls are soft and fluffy and quick and easy to make. They are filled with swirls of a sweet cinnamon sugar filling and topped with a tangy cream cheese frosting for decadent, gooey cinnamon rolls in under 2 hours.
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Sourdough Gingerbread Pancakes
These Sourdough Gingerbread Pancakes are soft, fluffy, and filled with warm gingerbread spices and rich molasses. They’re the kind of cozy Christmas morning breakfast that will quickly become a holiday tradition.
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Christmas Dinner Sourdough Sides
Sourdough Stuffing Recipe
This Sourdough Stuffing is incredibly flavorful and the perfect balance of textures. The top is crispy with a soft, tender middle without being mushy. It will be a go-to Thanksgiving recipe year after year.
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Sourdough Sweet Potato Casserole
This Sourdough Sweet Potato Casserole is made with a layer of creamy mashed sweet potatoes topped with a candied brown sugar pecan topping, just like mom made it growing up but with a sourdough twist.
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Sourdough Mac and Cheese
This Sourdough Mac and Cheese is super creamy, loaded with three different cheeses, and topped with a golden cheesy crust. This recipe is packed with flavor and will be your new go-to comfort food.
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Sourdough Corn Casserole
This rich and creamy corn casserole combines buttery creamed corn with a savory sourdough cornbread for a delicious side dish.
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