Sourdough Coffee Cake #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

This month's Fantastical Food Fight theme is SOURDOUGH. I had this on my list of potential themes for a long time because I wasn't using my sourdough starter. I ended up starting a new starter and have high hopes that this one will go a little better. I think mine went south due to not using it and it needed to be cut down and fed instead of just fed alone. When I have sourdough on hand, it is used almost exclusively for the family recipe for sourdough coffee cake. I have found that it is actually quite similar to many recipes online, so I decided to make and share one that is similar, but not the same. To keep the family secret...well, secret.

This is definitely the very best coffee cake there is. Nothing to date has lived up to how good sourdough coffee cake is. I highly highly recommend trying it out for yourself, you will not be disappointed!

Sourdough Waffles

You ain't had crazy good breakfast until you've tried these buttermilk waffles made with sourdough!

I've been trying to use my sourdough more often because it just sits in my fridge and gets its 10 day feedings and that's it. I decided to whip up these sourdough waffles because I have had the recipe saved for like 6 years or something crazy like that. If you don't know how to make sourdough, please scroll to the bottom of the post and make yourself a starter. It's easier than you'd think and most times, they are very forgiving. I personally really enjoyed the flavor of these waffles and absolutely adore that they contain buttermilk as well. Buttermilk pancakes/waffles are my favorite style/kind. I also really like that this recipe has two parts, but neither are very labor intensive. You stir a few ingredients together the night prior and then stir a couple more ingredients into that and boom! Waffles for breakfast!

Sourdough Starter

Four ingredients and a little patience and you will have a sourdough starter that adds an unbelievable flavor profile to so many recipes!

I have had a sourdough starter for almost 2 years and kept forgetting that I could share it. And, in fact, I hadn't taken the picture of my starter until a week prior to this post going live. It's highly unusual that I have a recipe on my posting schedule without a picture for the post. I combined a starter recipe (ingredients) with a method that was in a sourdough starter recipe that was in my husband's dad's side of the family for generations. I most often use my starter for sourdough coffee cake, but that is a treasured family recipe that I won't be sharing. I do hope to make many more sourdough recipes with my starter to share though :)

I have heard of people naming their sourdough because it is "living", so mine's name is Big Bertha. I don't remember if someone else had that name, but I thought it was so funny and that's what mine is called.