10,000 butter recipes

Baked seafood tortillas stuffed with crab, Monterey Jack, and parsley in a creamy white sauce with a hint of cayenne. Bubbly, cheesy, and ready in just over an hour.

This recipe is definitely worth the effort for the holidays and special company. Broiled stuffed tomatoes and a fresh green salad are perfect accompaniments with this meat dish.

Ugly Cake earns its name as the cream cheese topping bakes down into the yellow cake batter, leaving craggy peaks of sweetened cheese frosting on top. Looks rough, tastes like glory.

Peas, carrots, pimentos, and green pepper in a creamy chicken broth and mushroom soup sauce, topped with piped mashed potatoes and baked golden. Shepherd's pie vibes.

Soft orange juice cookies with fresh OJ in the batter and a tangy orange-glazed top. A vintage church-supper drop cookie with bright citrus flavor in every bite.

Traditional Irish dressed cabbage braised in butter and bacon stock with a hint of nutmeg. Simple, buttery, and ready in 40 minutes, this heritage side dish turns humble cabbage into something you'll actually crave.

Honey curry chicken wings: oven-baked, basted in a butter-honey-mustard-curry glaze that turns sticky and lacquered. A party platter staple with retro charm and serious flavor.

Butter toffee pecan bars with a shortbread base, boiled butter-sugar topping, and swirled milk chocolate on top. A three-layer cookie bar that yields 36 pieces.

Veal Marsala with provolone, pounded thin and pan-seared, topped with melted cheese, and finished with a butter-mounted Marsala mushroom sauce. Italian elegance in 35 minutes.

Pan-fried trout flambed with Grand Marnier and finished with a whisked butter sauce, lemon slices, and fresh parsley. A romantic dinner for two with real tableside drama.

Kumquat pecan crepes are filled with a frangipane-style pecan butter and chopped preserved kumquats, baked golden, then flambeed tableside with warm cognac. A grown-up dessert with theatrical presentation.

Bread machine naan: yogurt-enriched Indian flatbread baked in a screaming-hot oven for puffy, blistered rounds brushed with butter and topped with onion. The home-kitchen cheat for restaurant naan without a tandoor.

Rich, velvety crab soup with a splash of scotch whiskey, swimming in buttery cream sauce. Ready in 40 minutes, this elegant seafood bisque is pure comfort in a cup.

Cinnamon roll bread made in a bread machine: all the swirl, spice, and sugar of a classic cinnamon roll baked into a soft sliceable loaf. Dump, press start, done.

American coffee cake from a Miami County, Ohio Grange recipe: tender egg-white-leavened cake topped with cinnamon-sugar streusel. Two square cakes for a Sunday breakfast crowd.

Hand-shaped chocolate pretzel cookies made from a cocoa butter dough, baked until set, then frosted with a simple cocoa-powdered sugar icing. A playful baking project that yields about 2 dozen.