Learn everything you need to know about making, maintaining and using sourdough starters so that you can bake the best bread of your life, consistently.

What You'll Learn

Sourdough starter ratios and flour types

Sourdough Starter, Demystified

Learn in simple terms how to make and maintain a sourdough starter – from feeding ratios, flour types, time & temperature, to building a levain for baking, troubleshooting and storage.

How to make a sweet stiff starter

A Starter for Sweet Applications

Learn to make a sweet stiff starter that will allow you to use your sourdough starter to naturally leaven products without any sourdough tang. Think cinnamon rolls, brioche, milk bread, etc.

Laila O'Boyle Sourdough Starter Class

Learning with Laila

As a self-taught sourdough enthusiast & cottage baker turned baking consultant & educator, Laila's teaching style is approachable, welcoming and accessible to beginning bakers.

Laila OBoyle @theearyrisebaker

About Your Teacher

You may know Laila from social media under the handle @theearlyrisebaker. If so, you know she loves explaining things in a simple and straightforward way, cutting through the sourdough baking jargon, de-mystifying it and making it less intimidating – especially for beginners.

She's been baking for as long as she can remember and discovered a passion for naturally leavened, sourdough bread in 2019. Since then, she's become officially obsessed with sourdough – devouring books, taking classes, watching videos, meeting with other bakers – eventually starting her own cottage bakery in 2022.

Today, along with educating her social media followers through short-form content, she finds great joy consulting with up-and-coming bakers as well as teaching more formal classes in-person and online. 

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