Bundle and SAVE! with our complete sourdough starter kit with paints value bundle!

Ever walk into a bakery or a market stall and smell the fresh sourdough bread and wish you could fill your house with that smell? You can! Our complete sourdough starter kit will have you baking your own delicious sourdough at home in no time — and now it comes with food-safe dough paints so you can get creative and turn every loaf into a colourful masterpiece.

Buy once - all you need is more flour to continue to make amazing bread!
Includes food-safe dough paints in white, red, blue and yellow so you can decorate or colour your dough
Active starter guarantee or we’ll replace it free
Great for both new and experienced home bakers
Has everything you need to bake delicious artisan sourdough bread from scratch
Bake your first loaf in as little as 2-3 days (no waiting weeks for an active starter!)
Quality Australian ingredients (supporting Australian farmers)
Free metro shipping, $10 flat rate for rest of Australia
Thousands of happy home baking customers

There is enough bread flour in the kit to make 3-4 loaves and activate/feed your sourdough starter. As an added bonus, the ongoing costs to continue your sourdough journey are extremely minimal; all you need is more flour!

What's Included:

Dough Paints

Unleash your inner Picasso with our food-safe dough paints. These quality food colouring gel paints are designed to transform your sourdough into a masterpiece! Add directly into your dough to change it's colour, paint the top of your loaves or use in other baking for icings, fondant and buttercream - the creative possibilities are endless. This dough paint pack comes with white, blue, red and yellow paints, so you can mix them together and create almost any colour.

Brush, Bake, Bite.

Prep Your Canvas. (your shaped sourdough loaf)
Mix Your Palette. Shake your dough paints well
Start Painting. No rules here, just doughy creativity!
Let it Rest. Allow your loaf to rest for a few minutes
Bake to Perfection. Bake as per your recipe's instructions

Ingredient list:

WHITE:
White Pigment: food additives (55% sorbitol 10%titanium dioxide, 3% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, 1.88% grycerin, 1.5% maltose syrup, 0.04% potassium sorbate) drinking water.

RED:
801 red food additives (48% sorbitol, 13.12% carmine, 3% sodium carboxymethylcelluose, 1.88% sunset yellow, 1.88% grycerin, 0.04% postssium sorbate) drinking water.

BLUE:
881 food additives (sorbitol solution 55%, brilliant blue 5.2%, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, 3%, carmine 2.8%, glycerin 1.88%, potassium sorbate 0.04%) drinking water.

YELLOW:
802 food additives (sorbitol liquid 55%, tartazine 7.98%, sodium carboxmethyl cellulose 3%, glycerin 1.88%, potassium sorbate 0.04%, sunset yellow 0.02%) drinking water.

Bread Flour

2 kilograms of high protein bread flour. The wheat is grown and milled by South Australian farmers Flinders Ranges Premium Grain. They have grown their own wheat in the Flinders Ranges for generations and the flour they produce has been recognised internationally for it's quality and consistency. The high protein content in the flour ensures a great loaf of sourdough bread that is always full of flavour, chewy and has a great crust. This will be enough for your first 3-4 loaves of sourdough and to replenish your sourdough starter.

Sourdough Starter

A packet of dried sourdough starter flakes. This is what makes sourdough, sourdough! The sourdough starter contains the wild yeast that produces bread with distinct sourdough flavours. Simply follow the instructions in the recipe provided or on the guide section of the website to begin your very own sourdough starter. As long as you keep feeding your starter it will live forever!

Oval Banneton with Cloth Liner

25cm long oval rattan banneton that you will proof your sourdough bread in. Rattan bannetons are extremely useful to the sourdough bread making process. It will let your dough breathe and will draw moisture from the surface of the dough, helping to give that extra crunch to your sourdough bread.

Danish Dough Whisk

Special shaped whisk to help incorporate the flour, water, sourdough starter and salt. Much easier and faster than a spoon!

Bread Lame

A lame (pronounced ‘Lahm’, a French word meaning blade) is a special tool that is used to score (cut) the dough before it goes into the oven so it can expand.

Dough/bench scraper

Pretty straight forward! As sourdough is quite a wet dough this scraper comes in handy to make sure you can get all of your dough off the bench. Also makes shaping the dough a breeze.

Sourdough Starter Instructions and Sourdough Bread Recipe

The sourdough starter kit has printed instructions explaining how to activate your dried sourdough starter flakes, as well as a sourdough bread recipe with detailed instructions (and when to use all of the equipment for your first loaf of sourdough bread). Plenty of useful video links in it as well for all the visual learners out there!

You can also find all this information on the guide section of the website (along with photos of the process).

What you need:

Equipment

Mixing bowl
Water
Salt
Oven
Baking paper
Paint Brushes

Optional (beneficial but not required)

Dutch oven - used to create steam to help the bread rise. Without this you can still create steam in your oven by pouring boiling water in a hot tray at the bottom of your oven.
Kitchen scales - to accurately weigh ingredients. You can use measuring cups however you'll get a more consistent result if you weigh everything.

Happiness Guarantee

Our #1 priority at You Knead Sourdough is your happiness. As a small business, we 100% stand by our product. If you have a problem, we will solve it! Send you out a new starter, troubleshoot with you over the phone, send you extra resources, refund it - whatever it takes! Just send us a message and we will do anything we can to help.

Shipping

Metro areas: Enjoy FREE standard shipping on all Complete Sourdough Starter Kits and Sourdough Kit Bundles.
Regional & remote areas: Standard shipping is a flat rate of $14.95.
Express shipping: Available for metro addresses only at $14.95.

Shipping costs for any additional items in your cart will be calculated automatically at checkout based on your delivery postcode.

To view shipping costs for your country, visit our shipping policy here.

Please double-check your shipping address before placing your order. Once an order has been dispatched, we’re unable to take responsibility for incorrect address details. If a parcel is returned to us, we’re happy to arrange a refund or re-send.

Need help?

We are here to help! We are very active on Facebook, Instagram, email and our store chat - if you have any questions, issues getting your starter active or baking your sourdough get in touch and we’ll help out any way we can. We also have a very active group on Facebook where people ask questions and post their sourdough creations to share with others. Come and join!

We also have comprehensive guides and FAQ’s right here on our website, so if you have a question you can be sure that it has been answered.

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