Sourdough Surprises - June

Oh my goodness, were you as blown away by those brownies (and blondies!) as we were? Who knew that your sourdough starter could make such delicious, ooey-gooey yumminess?? You guys are so impressive!

So for June, we want to go a little bit different, but definitely have some fun.  This month we challenge you to make sourdough crepes.


We plan to use this recipe as our inspiration, but feel free to use any recipe you choose, not to mention use your crepes for any dish or meal you would like. For more ideas, check out our inspiration board on Pinterest.

So what kind of crepes do you like? Sweet? Savory? Do you want your crepes for breakfast or for dinner? We can't wait to see where your creativity takes you!

How to participate this month:

1. Make some delicious brownies using your sourdough starter!
2. Take some pretty photos and blog about it on May 20, 2013.
3. Follow this link: http://www.inlinkz.com/script.php?id=275554&nojump=1&key=IL0YkmGbOusGM and choose the HTML code that works best for you and your blog. (Copy and paste it into the HTML section of your blog. You will know you have done it right if you see a blue frog face!)
4. Make sure your post links back to this site, www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com - for our international friends, make sure you check the link and it ends in ".com"
5. Make sure you enter your own blog post in the linky tool (after your post publishes) so that everyone can see what you have made!

Don't have a blog but want to join us anyway? Awesome! We would love for you to join us! Just make your crepes and email us a picture and your name and we will include it in our reveal post!

And don't forget to e-mail us a photo so we can include it in the slideshow right here on our blog!

Now who's ready for some crepes?

Sourdough Brownies and Blondies

Hello Sourdough Friends! We hope you loved creating a new and delicious brownie or blondie this month, and are so excited to see what you came up with! Did you go chocolate or not? Add ins? Frostings? The choices were endless!!

We loved how quick and easy these were, and definitely versatile! And definitely delicious!

Please check out all the other amazing and delicious brownies and blondies that were made this month! And link yours up!

Don't forget to stop by in a few days and see what we are doing next (we think its going to be awesome, but then again, we are kind of biased!)! 

Sourdough Surprises - May

Oh my gosh, how excellent was everyone's sourdough pasta? Thank you so much for helping us to celebrate our first full year of sourdough-ing together. What a fun and delicious year it has been!

Now that you have helped us to celebrate our anniversary, we want to make something extra tasty to celebrate you!

So what could be more fun and tasty than chocolate. And what chocolate-y treat could be more fun to bake this month than brownies??

We plan to use this recipe as our inspiration, but feel free to use any recipe you choose. For more ideas, check out our inspiration board on Pinterest.

And don't let the recipe(s) limit you! Add in your favorite mix-ins, swirl in extra flavor or create a new brownie or blondie all your own. As long as you're using your sourdough starter in your brownies (or blondies), the rest is completely up to you!


How to participate this month:

1. Make some delicious brownies using your sourdough starter!
2. Take some pretty photos and blog about it on May 20, 2013.
3. Follow this link: http://www.inlinkz.com/script.php?id=264390&nojump=1&key=IL0Zre9ZM.w5. and choose the HTML code that works best for you and your blog. (Copy and paste it into the HTML section of your blog. You will know you have done it right if you see a blue frog face!)
4. Make sure your post links back to this site, www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com - for our international friends, make sure you check the link and it ends in ".com"
5. Make sure you enter your own blog post in the linky tool (after your post publishes) so that everyone can see what you have made!

Don't have a blog but want to join us anyway? Awesome! We would love for you to join us! Just make your pasta and email us a picture and your name and we will include it in our reveal post!

And don't forget to e-mail us a photo so we can include it in the slideshow right here on our blog!

Now lets get to those brownies!!

Sourdough Pasta

Happy Birthday Sourdough Surprises!!! Thank you all so much for joining us for such a fun filled year! We have made so many delicious things with our starters, and we cannot wait to share even more with you in the next year!

This month we made homemade sourdough pasta (which is what started us on this journey in the first place). Homemade pasta is easy and delicious, versatile and oh so fun! What did you do with yours?

Sourdough Surprises - April

First, we want to say Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! You guys have made this a fantastic year, and we are so excited that there are so many of you who join us each month to create fun things with our starters!

Because this is our One Year Anniversary we wanted to share with you how it all began. Jenni and Shelley had been trading sourdough recipes. Jenni made pasta with her starter and told Shelley. Shelley made it and loved it.  She told Ruth, she mentioned it to Lisa, and soon we were having an awesome four-way phone call discussing what we were going to do next. That was how Sourdough Surprises came to be, and so we figured that this would be the perfect time to introduce you to what started it all. Pasta.

We recommend you use this recipe, which lends itself to all pasta shapes really well. Be creative - flavor it, top it, fill it - the possibilities are endless and we are so excited to see what you do with this! This pasta is a "rustic" type pasta, and because it has wild yeast in it, it will never be ultra paper thin. Please be aware of this as you are deciding what to make and how to use it. 

Want to join in on the fun? Awesome! All you have to do is follow these five simple steps:

How to participate this month:

1. Make some awesome pasta that includes your sourdough starter!

2. Take some pretty photos and blog about it on April 20, 2013.

3. Follow this link: http://www.inlinkz.com/script.php?id=254225&nojump=1&key=ILYtw/UiBfQXI and choose the HTML code that works best for you and your blog. (Copy and paste it into the HTML section of your blog. You will know you have done it right if you see a blue frog face!)

4. Make sure your post links back to this site, www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com - for our international friends, make sure you check the link and it ends in ".com"
5. Make sure you enter your own blog post in the linky tool (after your post publishes) so that everyone can see what you have made!

Don't have a blog but want to join us anyway? Awesome! We would love for you to join us! Just make your pasta and email us a picture and your name and we will include it in our reveal post!

If you need some more inspiration, please check out our Pinterest board, which is chock-full of good stuff for you to look at!

And don't forget to e-mail a picture to us so that we can add it to our slideshow! We can't wait to see all the delicious pasta you create!

Sourdough Cakes!

What better way to round out a fantastic year of sourdough adventures than with a big slice of cake?

And, man, did you guys deliver!  Seriously, you guys really know how to make a celebration special - and delicious!

The biggest surprise with sourdough cakes is quite how many choices there are!

No matter what shape, size or flavor, these cakes all have two things in common - they're all made with sourdough and they all look (and taste) absolutely amazing.

So what flavor did you make? How did you frost it? Link up and share the deliciousness!

And don't forget to check back in a couple of days to see what is coming your way for our First Anniversary month of April!

(Please note that we did not to share a recipe on this post this month, since there were so many varieties to choose from. Please click through to those amazing cakes linked below for the recipes, and give one (or more!) a try!)

Sourdough Surprises - March

Oh man, awesome job on the sourdough flatbreads, you guys! They all looked soo delicious! 

We are really excited to see what you guys make this month - because we are going to make CAKES! The possibilities here are virtually endless, so get as creative as you want!  Like always, you may use any recipe you would like, but don't forget to check out our pinterest board to see over 40 different sourdough cakes that we have been inspired by! 

So what will it be? Chocolate? Vanilla? Fruity? Spiced? Will you make a layer cake? A Bundt cake? Your sourdough starter can do any of those, and we can't wait to see the delicious desserts that you guys will create this month.

So who loves the new linky tool? It's pretty awesome, right? We are so happy with how it looks, but we know that we would like to do a little bit of fine-tuning with how it works this month. We noticed we got a lot of emails late the night before the reveal, and a lot more that morning, and we weren't around to answer them right away, which we feel bad about. So this month, we are going to make a slight change: 

How to participate this month:

1. Bake an awesome cake (you can do a layer cake, a sheet cake, a bundt, even cupcakes!) and make sure you use your sourdough starter!

2. Take some pretty photos and blog about it on March 20, 2013.

3. Follow this link: http://www.inlinkz.com/script.php?id=244227&nojump=1&key=ILpIbU/3fXyLw and choose the HTML code that works best for you and your blog. (Copy and paste it into the HTML section of your blog. You will know you have done it right if you see a blue frog face!)

4. Make sure your post links back to this site, www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com - for our international friends, make sure you check the link.
5. Make sure you enter your own blog post in the linky tool after it publishes so that everyone can see what you have made!

Don't have a blog but want to bake with us anyway? We would love for you to join us! Just bake your cake and email us a picture and your name and we will include it in our reveal post!

Happy Baking!