Got a Sourdough Lover on Your List? Build the Perfect Gift Basket with These Essentials!

This thoughtful DIY sourdough bread gift basket is full of our favorite baking supplies!

Give the gift of sourdough bread making! 🍞

A few of us here on the Hip2Save team started baking sourdough bread last year and are totally hooked. I made a cute DIY Christmas ornament that looks like a mini sourdough starter, and now I have a fun sourdough-themed gift basket gift idea! If you have a sourdough fan in your life consider gifting any or all of these helpful supplies.

Once you get the timing and process down, baking sourdough is easy to accomplish and becomes a little addicting! I mean who doesn’t love some warm homemade crusty bread with butter? YUM!

Here are some of my favorite sourdough baking supplies!

We are all brand new to sourdough and loosely follow the same Emile Raffa everyday sourdough recipe. Her book Artisan Sourdough Made Simple is fantastic; I love her bread and bagel recipes, which is why I have included in the gift basket.

I think the key to success is to have a strong sourdough starter. You can order sourdough starter online, get some from a friend, or make your own. I picked up a highly-rated glass sourdough starter kit with a nice breathable lid and scraper that will keep things nice and neat. It has instructions to make your own starter, or you can use it as storage for your starter, so it’s a great addition to the gift basket, even if your giftee is already baking.

Having a kitchen baking scale to measure ingredients is much faster and more accurate than using measuring cups. I have been using this one from Amazon and love it, so I’m suggesting to add that, too.

Fill your sourdough gift basket with these finds:

I grabbed a woven basket with a cute chalk label from Walmart.com to hold all the gifts and wrote sourdough on the tag with a marker. It’s a great size, and can become a helpful storage container for supplies too!

Then I layered in some Christmas tea towels for a practical item that adds a pop of holiday color.

Although Banneton baskets are not essential, they are nice to have for proofing bread. The silicone ones are easy to clean and make great lines in the bread. You can snag an affordable set on Amazon that also comes with helpful kitchen tools, like a Danish whisk, metal dough scraper, scoring blade, and stencils to decorate your loaf with flour.

Collin also loves the silicone slings to bake inside a Dutch oven instead of using parchment paper. You can see them in action (and follow along our team’s sourdough journey) with our Sourdough Highlights button on Instagram.