10,000 butter recipes

Traditional Appalachian stack cake with tender cookie-thin layers separated by spiced apple butter. Bake crisp golden rounds, then let them soften overnight as the apple butter melts into each bite.

Lemon butter wafers are thin, lacy butter cookies scented with fresh lemon zest and ground almonds. Perfect with tea or sandwiched with raspberry jam.

Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes) with finely chopped pecans, rolled in powdered sugar while warm. Christmas cookie tin staple, freezes beautifully.

Grilled swordfish steaks crowned with a compound butter made from Dijon mustard and fresh basil. Just 25 minutes and 5 ingredients for a smoky, herb-kissed seafood dinner.

Elegant shortbread-style cookies with ground toasted pecans and a splash of dry sherry. Pressed with decorative designs and ripened overnight for the best texture. Makes 90 cookies.

Peanut butter and jelly muffins hide a creamy PB and fruit preserve filling inside whole wheat breakfast muffins. The classic sandwich reimagined for the lunchbox or breakfast table.

This is an elegant cookie with a sweet almond flavor.

A simple and succulent beef dish that will have you hooked after the first bite!

Soft, chewy banana cookies loaded with chopped pecans and a hint of molasses and cinnamon. This drop cookie recipe makes 3 dozen and disappears even faster.

Mocha nut butter balls: tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies flavored with cocoa and instant coffee, packed with toasted walnuts or pecans, rolled in sugar.

Five-ingredient herb butter sauce with rosemary, tarragon, and lemon that doubles as a grilling baste and warm dipping sauce for shrimp, crab, lobster, and crawfish.

Lemon butter cookies with fresh lemon juice and zest in a crisp rolled-and-cut shortbread. A tender, citrusy classic dusted with sugar for a sparkly bakery-style top.

Noodles in fairy butter, a sweet historical pasta tossed in a rich sauce of hard-cooked egg yolks, butter, sugar, orange flower water, thyme, and basil.

Chocolate-tipped butter cookies shaped into sticks, fork-pressed, and dipped in melted chocolate chips then rolled in chopped pecans or almonds. Elegant and melt-in-your-mouth tender.

Homemade chicken soup simmered with celery, bay leaf, and peppercorns, finished with tiny butter dumplings dropped right into the broth. Old-fashioned comfort in every spoonful.

Smooth shrimp butter spread made with fresh shrimp, cream cheese, butter, and hard-boiled egg blended silky in a food processor. A rich, molded appetizer for crackers.