Fall is here, and to celebrate one beautiful season with sourdough bread, I tried a new technique, coupling air-brushing with leaf shapes. You can use any recipe you like, these were flavored with either Za’atar, Smoked Paprika, or Herbes de Provence.

AUTUMN LEAVES SOURDOUGH
VERSION #1

I started air-brushing a mixture of three colors, red, orange and green…

However, the green was totally lost during baking, so in my second attempt I skipped that color and went with red, orange and yellow instead….

AUTUMN LEAVES SOURDOUGH
VERSION #2

I also got a little more assertive with the gold painting of the edges, which happens after baking.

For my last version, I changed things around and used real leaves to mask parts of the dough. Spray-painted black all over, then came back with the air-brush to highlight the leaves with red and yellow.

AUTUMN LEAVES SOURDOUGH
VERSION #3

It is by far the most dramatic, and what I like about air-brushing is that contrary to charcoal or cocoa powder, the black color won’t run on your fingers as you touch the bread to slice it.

Stay tuned for more adventures with air-brushing and bread, so many possibilities! A lot of inspiration available on Instagram and Pinterest, it is hard to decide what to try next…

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