10,000 butter recipes

Ginger-peach compound butter with fresh minced peach and ginger folded into sweetened butter. Spread for scones, biscuits, pancakes, or warm bread, ready in 10 minutes.

Peanut butter cream cheese pies frosted with chocolate pudding and topped with chopped peanuts. The recipe makes two 9-inch pies, with real whipped cream folded into the peanut butter base for serious lift.

Make buttery and delicious butter cookies with this baci butter cookie dough. It's easy to make and takes no time.

Peanut butter cookies made with sugar replacement for a lower-sugar treat. Classic creamed margarine and peanut butter base, criss-crossed with a floured glass and baked to tender-edged gold.

As every angler knows, skillet-size brook, brown, and rainbow trout are never more tasty than when prepared this way. Can there be any tastier dish than the one that comes from this happy marriage of fresh trout and butter?

Chocolate chip butter cake made with creamed butter, separated eggs, cake flour, and coarsely grated German sweet chocolate folded in and sprinkled on top. Light, tender, and rich.

Quinoa and butter beans simmered with sweet potato, butternut squash, and dried cranberries in orange juice and warm spices. A colorful vegetarian main packed with fall harvest flavors.

Butter in India is called makkhan. Clarified butter, instead of being called makkhan ghee, is called usli ghee (usli means "real" or "pure," which in this context refers to the real or original fat of the ancient Indians). Clarified butter or usli ghee is essentially French brown butter with the brown residue strained off. Usli ghee has a light caramel color and a heavenly aroma. Since there is no moisture present, it keeps well covered, at room temperature, for several months.

Golden butter cake loaves with toasted almond crust on the bottom and sweet almond glaze on top. Easy recipe using cake mix with impressive bakery results.

Oversized peanut butter pizza cookies topped with chocolate frosting, cashews, candy pieces, coconut, gumdrops, and a white chocolate drizzle. A fun decorating project for kids.

Double peanut butter sandwich cookies with peanut butter in the dough and between two slices. A slice-and-bake cookie with freezable dough for make-ahead baking.

Peanut butter brownies with crunchy peanut butter and a marbled chocolate chip top. Soft, chewy bars baked in a 13x9 pan, makes 24.

Chewy peanut butter cookies loaded with ground and whole sesame seeds, brown sugar, honey, and a warm ginger kick. Rolled in raw sesame seeds for a nutty, crackly coating.

No-bake peanut butter pie with cream cheese, real whipped heavy cream, and a hot fudge topping over a graham cracker crust. Richer than the whipped-topping versions, with a denser, fudgier cut.

Chewy peanut butter brownies made with melted semi-sweet chocolate, creamy peanut butter, and chopped walnuts. Dense, fudgy, and rich with a peanut butter flavor that deepens the chocolate.

Soft peanut butter cookies studded with toffee bits, topped with vanilla icing and a crunchy toffee chip crown. Three layers of flavor in every bite. Makes 2 dozen.