Recipes with vegetable shortening

I have made this pie several times, and everytime is a hit. The pineapple and coconut is a great combination. Very tasty pie.

Moist, buttery and chocolaty cake looks so appealing as well. A perfect dessert when you have company coming over.

Moist, buttery and chocolaty cake looks so appealing as well. A perfect dessert when you have company coming over.

Aunt Catherine's Italian Cookies: a heirloom cookie with almond extract, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, finished in pastel-colored powdered sugar icing. Stores for months in tins.

Large-format quiche baked in a 13x9 pan with a decorative pastry edge, three cheeses, and a creamy custard filling. Perfect for feeding a crowd at brunch.

Spicy oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins, nuts, and a bold mix of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and allspice. Chewy, warmly spiced, and packed with brown sugar flavor.

Soft rolled molasses cookies with gentle ginger and cinnamon, topped with a simple egg white icing. Kid-friendly spice level and great for cookie cutters.

Traditional New Mexican biscochitos with anise seed and cinnamon-sugar topping. These shortening-based cookies are crisp, fragrant, and cut into festive shapes.

Annie Mae Jones' cornmeal muffins: pure cornmeal Southern muffins with buttermilk, baking soda, and a splash of butter, baked in pre-heated greased pans for crispy bottoms and tender centers.

Deluxe chocolate chunk walnut cookies with semi-sweet chunks and milk chocolate morsels in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bakery-style thick cookies with two kinds of chocolate.

Soft homemade dinner rolls: pillowy yeast rolls made the old-fashioned way with milk, water, and active dry yeast. Pull-apart soft, golden-topped, and worth every minute of the rise.

Cornmeal buttermilk biscuits with a pinch of cayenne, cut butter, and an egg wash for golden tops. Gritty, tender, and puffed with a cornbread-meets-biscuit texture that's ready in under 15 minutes.

Easy drop biscuits with just 5 pantry ingredients ready in 30 minutes. No rolling, no cutting, no biscuit cutter needed. Just mix, scoop, bake, and serve hot with butter and jam.

Mom's apple cookies are soft, cake-like drop cookies with grated fresh apple, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and walnuts. Old-fashioned spiced bakery flavor from a lunchbox-friendly batch of three dozen.

Whole wheat pancakes made from scratch with just seven ingredients. Nutty, hearty griddle cakes with more fiber and flavor than white flour versions.

White cake mix studded with chopped Oreos and layered with homemade vanilla frosting. A two-layer cookies and cream celebration cake that comes together with minimal fuss.