Recipes with butter

Crispy toasted mushroom rolls with a creamy duxelles filling of sauteed mushrooms, cream, chives, and marjoram wrapped in flattened white bread. A freezer-friendly party appetizer.

Painted sugar cookies decorated with vibrant egg-yolk paint before baking, set on a no-leavening rolled cookie that holds its shape and color. A craft-and-bake project for kids and holidays.

This is excellent served as a spread over fresh French bread or roasted potatoes.

Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

Traditional water-based sourdough starter fermented 3-4 days, then baked into classic tangy loaves. Simple ingredients create authentic sourdough flavor.

Old-fashioned corn chowder made from fresh ears of corn, potatoes, and milk with no cream or flour. The corn cobs cook first to build a sweet corn broth, then everything simmers until thick and rich.

Pecan coffee cake with a thick brown sugar-cinnamon crumb topping loaded with pecans. Egg whites keep the cake tender and light under that crunchy crust.

Fish fillets pan-cooked in garlic butter with scallions and a squeeze of lemon. Five ingredients, six minutes of cooking, and dinner is on the table.

Moist pumpkin spice bundt cake with tangy cream cheese frosting. Easy one-bowl recipe uses canned pumpkin and oil for tender crumb. Perfect fall dessert in 90 minutes.

Country apple pie layers six cups of fresh apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a flaky double crust, baked in two stages for a golden top and tender filling. The American classic done right.

Savory pumpkin casserole gratin with farmer's cheese, eggs, and onion. Fresh pumpkin slices baked under a golden custard topping. A side dish for roast pork.

No-bake fudge cookies with cocoa, oats, and shredded coconut. Boil, stir, drop, and done in minutes with no oven required. The coconut adds chewy texture to every fudgy bite.

Buttery lemon drop cookies glazed with fresh citrus. Tender melt-in-your-mouth texture from egg yolk dough, rolled in sugar and baked until barely golden.

Chocolate sandwich cookies filled with melted Andes mint candies. Crisp chocolate wafers rolled in sugar with a creamy mint center, perfect for holiday cookie tins and gift platters.

This co-winner in the filled-cookie category from Gerry Cofta of Milwaukee has a great, rich flavor in the filling.

Quick sauteed salmon steaks pan-finished in butter with soy sauce and garlic powder, plated with lemon. Five ingredients, 15 minutes, weeknight-dinner heroics for under $10 a serving.