Recipes with vegetable shortening
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Deli Corn Rye
A deli-style corn rye bread with rye flour, cornmeal, mashed potatoes, and caraway seeds. Finished with a glossy cornstarch glaze for that authentic bakery look. Worth the rise time.
Apple-Apricot Bread
Moist quick bread studded with apples, apricots, and walnuts spiced with allspice and cinnamon for a fruity breakfast loaf perfect with coffee or tea.
Cherry Berry Pie
A showstopper lattice pie with three layers: almond cream cheese, fresh raspberries, and glazed cherries, all in a flaky homemade vinegar crust. Bake-sale worthy.
Cherry Berry Pie
A showstopper lattice pie with three layers: almond cream cheese, fresh raspberries, and glazed cherries, all in a flaky homemade vinegar crust. Bake-sale worthy.
Fish in a Fish
Fish in a fish: a fish-shaped pastry wrapped around flaked salmon and parsley-rice filling, served with creamy shrimp-dill sauce. An impressive Russian-inspired kulebiaka style showpiece for special occasions.
Very Special Chocolate Cake
Three-layer cake with two chocolate buttermilk layers and a yellow layer, sandwiched with caramel filling and topped with rich chocolate frosting. Show-stopper celebration cake.
Banana Spicecake
Old-fashioned Banana Spicecake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves baked into two 8-inch layers. Triple-sifted flour and the alternating technique give this layer cake an exceptionally light, tender crumb.
Dutch Dandruff
A hilariously gross Halloween cake decorated to look like a head with frosting 'hair,' cherry eyes, and a fruit roll-up tongue. Kids go absolutely wild for this one. Easy box cake base.
Brownie Pudding Cake
A self-saucing brownie pudding cake that creates its own hot chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with brown sugar and hot water transforms into cake on top, gooey pudding underneath. Serve warm with ice cream.
Hilary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip cookies with rolled oats, shortening, and brown sugar. The famous 1992 cookie recipe that started the presidential bake-off tradition.
Chocolate Thumbprints #2
Chocolate thumbprint cookies studded with mini chocolate chips and filled with a creamy peanut butter center. The chocolate-peanut butter combo makes these vanish from any cookie tray.
Chocolate Thumbprints #2
Chocolate thumbprint cookies studded with mini chocolate chips and filled with a creamy peanut butter center. The chocolate-peanut butter combo makes these vanish from any cookie tray.
Dalke's Chocolate Cake
Old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake with a boiled cocoa frosting that goes on while everything's still hot. Buttermilk keeps it moist, chopped nuts add crunch. Ready in under an hour.
Shredded Chocolate Banana Cake
Moist banana loaf cake studded with grated bittersweet chocolate, dusted with powdered sugar. Uses ripe bananas, half-and-half, and real butter for a rich, tender crumb.
Fluffy Gold Cake
Fluffy gold cake bakes up tender, golden, and rich with four egg yolks and silky cake flour. A vintage layer cake ready for any frosting and any birthday.
Peek-A-Bows
Peek-A-Bows are lace cookies made with corn syrup, brown sugar, and finely chopped nuts, rolled into cylinders while warm and tied with ribbon for a festive gift cookie.
A deli-style corn rye bread with rye flour, cornmeal, mashed potatoes, and caraway seeds. Finished with a glossy cornstarch glaze for that authentic bakery look. Worth the rise time.
Moist quick bread studded with apples, apricots, and walnuts spiced with allspice and cinnamon for a fruity breakfast loaf perfect with coffee or tea.
A showstopper lattice pie with three layers: almond cream cheese, fresh raspberries, and glazed cherries, all in a flaky homemade vinegar crust. Bake-sale worthy.
A showstopper lattice pie with three layers: almond cream cheese, fresh raspberries, and glazed cherries, all in a flaky homemade vinegar crust. Bake-sale worthy.
Fish in a fish: a fish-shaped pastry wrapped around flaked salmon and parsley-rice filling, served with creamy shrimp-dill sauce. An impressive Russian-inspired kulebiaka style showpiece for special occasions.
Three-layer cake with two chocolate buttermilk layers and a yellow layer, sandwiched with caramel filling and topped with rich chocolate frosting. Show-stopper celebration cake.
Old-fashioned Banana Spicecake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves baked into two 8-inch layers. Triple-sifted flour and the alternating technique give this layer cake an exceptionally light, tender crumb.
A hilariously gross Halloween cake decorated to look like a head with frosting 'hair,' cherry eyes, and a fruit roll-up tongue. Kids go absolutely wild for this one. Easy box cake base.
A self-saucing brownie pudding cake that creates its own hot chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with brown sugar and hot water transforms into cake on top, gooey pudding underneath. Serve warm with ice cream.
Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip cookies with rolled oats, shortening, and brown sugar. The famous 1992 cookie recipe that started the presidential bake-off tradition.
Chocolate thumbprint cookies studded with mini chocolate chips and filled with a creamy peanut butter center. The chocolate-peanut butter combo makes these vanish from any cookie tray.
Chocolate thumbprint cookies studded with mini chocolate chips and filled with a creamy peanut butter center. The chocolate-peanut butter combo makes these vanish from any cookie tray.
Old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake with a boiled cocoa frosting that goes on while everything's still hot. Buttermilk keeps it moist, chopped nuts add crunch. Ready in under an hour.
Moist banana loaf cake studded with grated bittersweet chocolate, dusted with powdered sugar. Uses ripe bananas, half-and-half, and real butter for a rich, tender crumb.
Fluffy gold cake bakes up tender, golden, and rich with four egg yolks and silky cake flour. A vintage layer cake ready for any frosting and any birthday.
Peek-A-Bows are lace cookies made with corn syrup, brown sugar, and finely chopped nuts, rolled into cylinders while warm and tied with ribbon for a festive gift cookie.
