10,000 buttery recipes

Hungarian tarts with a cream cheese pastry shell and five filling options: almond, pecan, walnut, coconut, and farmer's cheese. A traditional holiday baking project.

Moist butter pecan banana cake built on yellow cake mix with butter pecan pudding, mashed banana, and toasted pecans baked in a tube pan. A doctored-mix cake that tastes like it took all day.

Egg yolk shortbread bakes a richer-than-classic Scottish biscuit with butter, sugar, flour, and a single yolk for extra tenderness and golden color. Fork-marked, two-stage baked for delicate crisp edges.

It's easy to make, and it tastes a lot better than store-bought crust.

Cinnamon sugar crusted sweet bread: a lightly sweet yeast bread flavored with anise and wrapped in a buttery cinnamon-sugar crust. Sliced thin and buttered for coffee time.

Easy Bisquick coffee cake with a buttery cinnamon brown sugar streusel and chopped nuts folded into a fluffy biscuit-mix base. One bowl, 25-minute bake, perfect for brunch or a fast breakfast.

Whole bananas baked in their skins until caramelized and tender, then split and loaded with butter, salt, and pepper. Three ingredients, 20 minutes, pure Brazilian comfort.

Browned smoked pork chops served over crisp-tender buttered cabbage and delicate carrot ribbons. A hearty, fuss-free weeknight dinner ready in 40 minutes for 4.

Buttery shortbread base topped with a honey-almond caramel, double-baked into golden bars and cut while still warm. Crisp underneath, chewy on top.

Upside-down rhubarb muffins with a caramelized brown sugar and butter rhubarb topping. Warm nutmeg-spiced muffins flipped to reveal a sticky, tart rhubarb crown.

Gulf Coast shrimp Mornay with scallops and oysters in a rich three-cheese sauce topped with buttery cracker crumbs. Named for Alabama's shrimping capital, this is Southern seafood luxury at its finest.

Greek-inspired lamb in phyllo parcels with seared lamb steaks, sautéed onions, fresh tomato, oregano, and feta wrapped in buttered phyllo and baked until shatteringly golden.

A nutty twist on classic Yorkshire pudding with wild rice folded into the egg batter. Puffs up golden and crispy with savory Worcestershire-beef bouillon flavor.

Walnut fudge cookies (British-style biscuit fingers): a buttery shortbread base studded with walnuts and topped with a quick brown sugar fudge. Tea-time treat that slices clean.

New England fish chowder with haddock, potatoes, and condensed milk creates a thick, creamy bowl with just six simple ingredients. A no-fuss family recipe that tastes like the coast.

Homemade Jos Louis cakes (gateaux Jos Louis): French Canadian chocolate sandwich cakes with fluffy marshmallow-style vanilla filling and a rich chocolate icing coat. A Quebec childhood classic.