411 sour dough recipes

Quick Native American fry bread: four-ingredient dough fried golden, served sweet with honey or savory as a taco base. Simple, fast, deeply traditional.

Chewy oatmeal cookie dough shaped into snowmen and decorated for the holidays. A fun winter baking project for kids that makes four big cookie snowmen.

Pepperoni and cheddar stuffed pizza bread baked from frozen bread dough. Four ingredients, golden crust, melty cheese center. Easy game-day or after-school snack.

Big batch homemade hamburger buns: a soft yeasted dough made with scalded milk and shortening. Yields four dozen buns, perfect for a backyard cookout crowd.

Family-sized calzone made with store-bought pizza dough filled with Italian deli meats, mozzarella, Parmesan, and Italian dressing. One big fold-over that feeds four in 30 minutes.

Garlic Parmesan bread sticks made from pizza dough, brushed with garlic butter and baked crispy at high heat. Four ingredients, no pan needed, ready in minutes.

Slice and bake chocolate chip cookies with a make-ahead freezer dough. Shape four logs, freeze for up to 6 months, and bake fresh cookies anytime in 10 minutes.

Old-fashioned shortening pie crust with just four ingredients. This no-fuss pastry dough cuts together fast, rolls out easy, and bakes up tender and flaky every time.

Teddy bear bread shaped from a basic yeast dough with raisin eyes and belly buttons. A fun baking project for kids that makes four adorable bear-shaped loaves.

Norwegian cookies (biscotti-style) with chocolate chips and a cinnamon sugar topping. Dough baked in long rolls, then sliced diagonally into crisp strips. One batch makes four dozen.

Rugelach four ways: a single cream cheese pastry dough turned into raspberry-almond crescents, layered chocolate-pecan squares, apricot pockets and honey-pecan triangles. Holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Super chunky cookies pack four kinds of chocolate plus pecans and English toffee bits into a brown sugar dough. Bakery-style chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and chewy centers.

Apple cinnamon chop bread made with frozen sweet dough, sliced Golden Delicious apples, and cinnamon sugar. Chopped and mounded into a rustic pull-apart loaf with just four ingredients.

Jam kolaches fold a cream cheese pastry dough around a dot of strawberry jam, then bake into tender pillows dusted with powdered sugar. The Czech-American Christmas cookie with a four-ingredient base.

Rough puff pastry is the home cook's shortcut to puff pastry, made by folding walnut-sized chunks of cold fat through a soft dough four to five times. Flaky enough for tart shells, vol-au-vents, and turnovers.

Homemade beet pasta dough with a stunning ruby-red color from fresh beet puree. Just four ingredients, no eggs, and endlessly versatile for any pasta shape you want to roll.