Sourdough Easter Recipes (Bread, Hot Cross Buns & More)

Sourdough Hot Cross Buns

Traditional spiced sourdough hot cross buns flavoured with orange zest and dried fruit, but with a sourdough twist. This recipe uses active sourdough starter and benefits from a long bulk fermentation process and a second rise. So if you want to enjoy them for Easter Breakfast, start on Good Friday!

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Sourdough Discard Hot Cross Buns

These Sourdough Discard Hot Cross Buns are perfect when you have less time, but still want that signature tang in your Easter buns. With a little help from commercial yeast to quickly rise the hot cross bun dough, enriched with butter, brown sugar and spices, you can have them ready within a single day!

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Sourdough Chocolate Hot Cross Buns With Cherries

These Sourdough Chocolate Buns are inspired by the flavours of Black Forest Gateau. The dough is made with bread flour and cocoa powder, and stuffed with dried cherries and chocolate chips. It takes a long time to rise (we rely solely on the active starter and no added yeast), so allow ample time before you want to serve them! 

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Sourdough Paska (Ukrainian Sourdough Easter Bread)

Enriched sourdough, generously studded with dried fruit and marzipan cubes, then topped with a braided crown! Doesn't get much better than that!

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Sourdough Easter Bread (Italian Pane Di Pasqua)

This Sourdough Easter Bread, or Italian Pane Di Pasqua, is a festive bread that beautifully combines tradition with a touch of sourdough magic. With its braided wreath shape, egg wash glaze, and a symbol of new life, it's perfect for Easter celebrations. Softened butter brings a rich texture, making this traditional bread an absolute showstopper on your holiday table!

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Blueberry Lemon Sourdough Bread

Here at Somebody Feed Seb, no Easter celebrations would be complete without this incredible bread - Lemon Blueberry Sourdough! It's zingy, fresh and everything an Easter sweet bread should have! 

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Sourdough Strawberry Babka

Strawberry Sourdough Babka might just be the Easter bake you didn't know you needed. Sweet, tangy and swirled with a creamy strawberry filling, it's basically a cross between cake and bread-and honestly, who's mad about that? Perfect with a cuppa, or eaten straight from the tin when no one's looking.

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Sourdough Cookies With Mini Eggs

These Sourdough Cookies with Mini Eggs are the kind of sweet treats that disappear faster than you can say "just one more." Made with sourdough discard and all-purpose flour, they've got chewy centres, crispy edges, and those colourful Cadbury Mini Eggs that make them perfect for Easter munching.

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Sourdough Cherry & White Chocolate Chip Scones

These Sourdough Cherry Scones are the best sweet treat - indulgent, fluffy, and just the right amount of crumbly. They're the kind of Easter bake that goes perfectly at Easter Brunch or afternoon tea. A little sourdough tang plus tart cherries? Yes please.

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Sourdough Blueberry Scones

These Sourdough Blueberry Scones are like spring wrapped up in buttery layers-bursting blueberries, a touch of sourdough tang, and golden crusty edges. They're easy to make and even easier to eat… especially warm, with a smear of butter (or clotted cream if we're going all out).

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Sourdough Discard Rhubarb Muffins

Super moist, studded with bits of tart rhubarb and fiery stem ginger, these rhubarb muffins are a perfect way to use up that sourdough discard.

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Sourdough Lemon Poppy Seed Scones

Deliciously zingy with pops of poppy seeds and citrusy glaze, this is another great Sourdough Scone recipe for Easter!

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Sourdough Carrot Cake

Nothing says Easter time quite like a spiced, nutty carrot cake-and this one's made even better with sourdough discard for extra flavour and a tender crumb. Packed with dried fruit, crunchy nuts and topped with a dreamy honey cream cheese frosting, it's spring in cake form.

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Sourdough Caneles

Sourdough Canelés are our little Easter tradition-crisp, golden brown shells with soft, custardy centres that are worth every step. Just make sure to let them cool to room temperature before enjoying - easier said than done!

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Sourdough Pain Aux Raisins

Sourdough Pain Aux Raisins might be a bit of a challenge, but sourdough bakers know it's one worth taking on-especially for Easter. With buttery layers, plump raisins and all those French pastry vibes, it's basically breakfast and dessert in one.

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Sourdough Rhubarb Cake

This Sourdough Rhubarb Cake is sweet, tangy and just the right amount of rustic-perfect for Easter baking when rhubarb starts showing up in the shops. 

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Sourdough Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

This Sourdough Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is like spring in loaf form-bright, zippy and impossible not to love. With lemon zest running through the batter and a tangy glaze on top, it's a proper Easter treat that uses up a bit of discard too. Alternatively, try this cake in a Sourdough Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin form. 

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Sourdough Lemon Muffins

These Sourdough Lemon Muffins are a must for your Easter brunch! With their light texture and zesty lemon punch, they come together easily with just a large mixing bowl and a hand mixer. Perfect for celebrating the season!

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