10,000 buttery recipes

A French-inspired breakfast clafoutis with butter-sauteed seasonal fruit baked in a lemony egg batter until puffed and golden. Use cherries, blueberries, peaches, or whatever fruit is in season.

Onion soup topped with Gorgonzola toast instead of the usual Gruyere. Deeply caramelized onions in rich beef stock with thyme and a hit of tomato paste.

Rich flourless chocolate cake laced with Grand Marnier orange liqueur, baked low and slow until dense, fudgy, and utterly silky. Just chocolate, butter, eggs, and a splash of citrus elegance. Dust with powdered sugar and serve with billowy whipped cream.

Mom's creamy chicken gravy with celery, green pepper, and pimentos ladled over warm buttermilk biscuits. Old-school comfort food ready in 20 minutes.

Homemade apple pie with a flaky vinegar-egg crust and spiced Granny Smith filling. Includes options for solid top or woven lattice crust with sugar-brushed finish.

Nusskipferl are Austrian yeast-leavened crescent cookies filled with sweet ground nut meringue. A traditional Viennese coffeehouse pastry rolled jelly-roll style and curved into delicate horns.

Fudgy brownies with crushed potato chips folded into the batter for salty crunch in every bite. The sweet-salty combo that sounds wild but absolutely works.

Mussels a la Portuguese steamed in white wine, shallots, garlic, thyme, and cream. Briny, aromatic, ready in 4 minutes of steaming. Serve with crusty bread to soak the broth.

Turtle pie deluxe, a no-bake frozen ice cream pie with chocolate cookie crust, fudge layer, pecan-praline ice cream, butterscotch sauce, and toasted pecans. A make-ahead dessert showpiece.

Haitian French toast soaked in fresh orange juice, cream, and warm spices, then pan-fried until deeply golden. Caribbean brunch with bright citrus depth.

Peach and sour cream tart with fresh-poached peaches arranged in a sweet pastry shell, filled with a sour cream custard, and topped with sliced almonds. A classic French-style summer fruit tart.

Victorian jewels, glistening mini fruitcakes: brandy-soaked candied fruit and raisins in a spiced walnut batter, baked as bite-size muffins and glazed with melted jelly so they shine. A jewel-like holiday gift.

White chocolate macadamia cookies with chunky white chocolate pieces and coarsely chopped unsalted macadamias in a brown sugar butter dough. Rolled, flattened, and baked golden.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies bake a cocoa-walnut shortbread base, then fill the wells with vanilla cream and ruby cherry pie filling. Holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Foil-wrapped round steak slow-baked with butter, Worcestershire, onions, red pepper, carrots, and celery. A hands-off one-pan dinner that steams the beef fork-tender in its own juices.

Hyde Park fudge cake is a rich chocolate Bundt made with unsweetened chocolate, sour milk, and a glossy double-boiler chocolate icing. An old-fashioned classic.