Best Sourdough Christmas Recipes
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There's no doubt that if you're a sourdough baker, you want to share the sourdough love with everyone! And it goes without saying that you'd want to share your love of all things sourdough at Christmas time.
For this reason, I've put together the best sourdough Christmas recipes for every festive celebration. Wherever you are celebrating Christmas, there is sure to be a sourdough Christmas recipe to bring joy to your festive table.
To make sure your sourdough starter is up to the challenge this Christmas, make sure you check out these 5 tips for strengthening your starter!
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Sourdough Christmas Recipes For Every Celebration
Whether you're looking for a Christmas themed pull apart loaf made with the goodness of sourdough, a special breakfast to share with your family once Santa has been or the softest sourdough dinner rolls to adorn your festive table, you're sure to find something among these sourdough Christmas recipes.
I've created sections in this post for:
Tear & Share Christmas Sourdough Recipes
Sourdough Christmas Desserts
Sourdough Christmas Cookies
Sourdough Dinner Rolls for Your Festive Table
Sourdough Crackers & Bread Sticks
You might also like this collection of the best sourdough recipes to bake and gift this Christmas.
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Tear & Share Sourdough Christmas Recipes
Sourdough Christmas Tree Pull Apart Bread
This delicious pull apart bread is loaded with cheese and garlic. Serve alongside a bowl of Marinara sauce for the ultimate sourdough sharing platter!
This recipe is super easy to put together and can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge til you need to bake it.
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It's best served warm so the cheese is stretchy and gooey when you bite into the rolls.
![Sourdough Christmas Tree Pull Apart Loaf with Cheese and Garlic](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SOURDOUGH-CHRISTMAS-TREE-PULL-APART-BREAD-5-150x150.jpg)
Christmas Tree Pull Apart made with Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
This beautiful Christmas Tree is made using fluffy sourdough cinnamon rolls and studded with stars of vanilla cream cheese frosting. Perfect for feeding a crowd, everyone will be impressed with this gorgeous Christmassy sourdough dessert!
![This sourdough Christmas Tree made with sourdough cinnamon rolls is one of the prettiest Christmas recipes. Cinnamon roll Christmas tree studded with vanilla cream cheese icing which has been piped on and decorated with red and green chocolate buttons.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BEST-SOURDOUGH-CHRISTMAS-RECIPES-2-1-683x1024.jpg)
![SOURDOUGH CINNAMON ROLLS CHRISTMAS TREE PULL APART - RECIPE FEATURE IMAGE](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CHRISTMAS-SOURDOUGH-CINNAMON-ROLLS-PULL-APART-TREE-1-150x150.jpg)
Sourdough Chocolate Star Bread
This impressive looking tear and share sourdough dessert bread is one of the loveliest sourdough recipes around. It has been tried and tested by thousands of home sourdough bakers in my Facebook group and gets rave reviews!
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Not only does it look incredible - it's super easy to make. You can choose to make it with discard and yeast for a faster version, or active starter for a true sourdough star bread.
I've included a baking timeline so you can stay on track with your bake.
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Sourdough Brioche Braided Wreath
This beautiful sourdough brioche braided wreath is filled with sweet and fragrant orange zest and raspberries and drizzled in orange glaze and flaked almonds. It's a showstopper that will loved by all that try it.
![A sourdough brioche braided wreath drizzled in orange glaze and topped with fresh raspberries and flaked almonds. You can see 3 glasses of champagne in the background, evoking a festive ocassion.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FESTIVE-SOURDOUGH-BRAIDED-BRIOCHE-WREATH-1-683x1024.jpg)
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Sourdough Christmas Desserts
Sourdough Gingerbread Rolls
Is it even Christmas if there's no ginger? These sourdough gingerbread rolls are a fun festive take on traditional cinnamon rolls.
With the warming flavors of sourdough gingerbread, these rolls are sure to warm the hearts of whoever tries them.
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Sourdough Pumpkin Pie
A classic dessert that uses sourdough starter in both the flaky pastry and the velvety pumpkin filling.
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Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
Perhaps these sourdough cinnamon rolls are the epitome of the festive season. They are most definitely one of the most popular choices for Christmas morning breakfast, filled with delicious brown sugar and cinnamon goodness!
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Sourdough Stollen
This traditional German sourdough bread is said to the be bread of the kings. Leavened with your sourdough starter, this delicious sourdough stollen recipe is sure to be the shining star of your Christmas celebrations.
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Sourdough Pie Crust
This versatile sourdough pie crust recipe can be used for a variety of sourdough desserts! You can blind bake the crust if you need to, or just fill it with your favorite fruits for a classic dessert everyone is sure to remember! You might also enjoy this sourdough apple pie.
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Sourdough Christmas Cookies
Sourdough Fruit Mince Cookies
Delightful sourdough thumbprint cookies filled with sweet fruit mince and dusted with icing sugar.
![A red Christmas tin of sourdough thumbprint cookies filled with sweet fruit mince.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SOURDOUGH-CHRISTMAS-THUMBPRINT-COOKIE-1-1024x538.jpg)
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Sourdough Gingerbread Cookies
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Sourdough Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I love baking these sourdough raisin and oatmeal cookies with my boys in the week leading up to Christmas. They are the perfect cookie to leave out with a glass of milk for Santa!
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Sourdough Sugar Cookies
Sourdough Sugar Cookies are the perfect sourdough cookies to cut out and decorate for the festive season. Whether you keep it super simple with some white fondant, or go full speed with piped decorations, these sourdough sugar cookies are a wonderful addition to your sourdough Christmas recipe collection.
![Sourdough sugar cookies decorated with white fondant stars and sprinkled with gold star sprinkles.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SOURDOUGH-SUGAR-COOKIES-MAKE-PERFECT-CHRISTMAS-GIFTS-1-683x1024.jpg)
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Sourdough Thumbprint Cookies
These sourdough thumbprint cookies just look like Christmas with their cheerful red jam centres and buttery shortbread biscuits. They are the perfect Christmas cookie to share with family and friends this holiday season.
![Sourdough thumbprint cookies sitting in front of a bowl of raspberry jam. There is a red and white dish cloth in the background and a wooden box.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SOURDOUGH-THUMBPRINT-COOKIES-2-683x1024.jpg)
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Sourdough Ginger Crinkle Cookies
These sourdough ginger crinkle cookies are something a little less traditional than sourdough gingerbread, but will be loved just as much by all that try them!
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Sourdough Pfeffernusse Cookies
These remind me of Christmas as a little girl! But these homemade sourdough pfeffernusse cookies taste so much better than store bought cookies! Promise me you'll try them this Christmas!
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Sourdough Dinner Rolls for Your Christmas Table
Soft Sourdough Dinner Rolls
These are the softest, most loveliest sourdough dinner rolls there ever were. You can use them for pretty much any occasion and as such they will be right at home on your Christmas dinner table.
![Soft Sourdough Dinner Rolls sitting on a wooden board. There is a blue dish towel sitting to the right.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SOFT-SOURDOUGH-DINNER-ROLLS-4-683x1024.jpg)
![SOURDOUGH DINNER ROLLS ARRANGED WITH A BLUE DISH TOWEL. ONE HAS BEEN TURNED ON ITS SIDE SO YOU CAN SEE THE SOFT CRUMB.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SOURDOUGH-DINNER-ROLLS-RECIPE-1-150x150.jpg)
Sourdough Discard Rolls
These are one of the most popular recipes on The Pantry Mama website - and with good reason! Soft, squishy and oh so quick and easy ... just what you want when you're busy at Christmas!
![A photo showing a sourdough skillet roll that has been pulled apart from the rest to reveal the fluffy interior texture.](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SOURDOUGH-SKILLET-ROLLS-11-1-683x1024.jpg)
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Sourdough Crackers & Bread Sticks
Gourmet Sourdough Crackers
These stunning gourmet sourdough crackers are studded with dried fruits, nuts and seeds to create a truly beautiful cracker, worth of the best charcuterie boards this festive season.
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Sourdough Grissini
![Whole Wheat Sourdough Grissini](https://www.pantrymama.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SOURDOUGH-GRISSINI-2-683x1024.jpg)
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