Anyone make cakes/sweet breads with sourdough?

[Koalamom]

What if I make sourdough bread and mix in during the last rising all the ingredients for something like banana bead- so knead in mashed bananas, maple syrup, melted butter, etc. Will this come out good? I want to make cranberry bread or zuchini bread but can't stand the texture of the NT sweet breads.

[FairyRae]

On the Cooking Traditional Foods forum they have a section dedicated to making non-tf recipes tf. I *know* I've seen soaked/sprouted cake/muffin recipes there--maybe even some using a sourdough starter. You can search the archives just like searching on MDC.

HTH!

[motherbirth]

I have used sourdough starter in carrot cake and chocolate cake. Try looking at King Arthur Flour's recipes; then take the sourdough cake recipe you like and try to make it more TF friendly.

[KristaDJ]

I make sourdough cinnamon raisin bread all the time and it's awesome. I just add a little honey, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla and tons of raisins to my regular sourdough recipe. Go for it

[lil_earthmomma]

Before I went grain free my sourdough seemed to bother me the least, so I used sourdough starter for EVERYTHING!!! I found recipes for chocolate cake, awesome cinnamon rolls, muffins, scones, cookies. You name it, the recipe is out there.

[Koalamom]

Originally Posted by lil_earthmomma

Before I went grain free my sourdough seemed to bother me the least, so I used sourdough starter for EVERYTHING!!! I found recipes for chocolate cake, awesome cinnamon rolls, muffins, scones, cookies. You name it, the recipe is out there.

Any you know are good and care to share?

[KristaDJ]

Ooooh I've also done sourdough chocolate pancakes! Just google what you want, I've found everything I've looked for.

[janinemh]

DH has been making sourdough dutch babies. I'm GF so I haven't tasted them but they look amazing and DS loves them. I made sourdough crepes for DH's birthday and he loved them. I poured about 1/2 to 1 cup sourdough started in with 4 eggs and a bit of creme, salt and vanilla. They made perfect looking crepes.

[425lisamarie]

I make EVERYTHING with sourdough. I make all sweet breads/muffins with sourdough.

Are you wanting to make a YEASTED type sweet bread? Not sure about bananas, but I don't see why not since I make pumpkin/sweet potato bread. IME it's better to make a no-kneed style if you are using a lot of fillers because it's just easier! I love doing pureed pumpkin or sweet potato, with cranberries and pumpkin seeds. Here's a quick recipe:

3 cups flour
1.5 cups water
1/4 starter
1 tsp-1.5 tsp salt
1/2 cup pureed pumpkin/squash or sweet potato, keep in mind the more you use the denser the loaf, but you can use up to a cup
spices if you wish, i use pumpkin pie spices
cup of cranberries and pumpkin seeds
sweetner if you want. I would not use too much, keep in mind sugar will brown your loaf faster and with the long ferment you'd be suprised how sweet a loaf can be with just a tblsp of sugar, which is why i MUCH prefer making yeasted types (so do my kids!)

If you want a softer better keeping loaf add a couple tablespoons melted butter or oil, and use half buttermilk

Have you ever made no knead type breads? It's really easy. The directions would be very elaborate to type out so I won't unless i'ts necessary.....or I can point you to a great video online.

The reason i suggest the no knead is that you can get all the add ins so nicely incorporated, and with very little effort. I mix it the night before, then in the am shape the loaf, let rise and bake!

English muffins are a favorite too and i use the same basic method