10,000 batter recipes

Homemade fondant: a soft, moldable butter-and-sugar candy center ready to flavor, shape, and dip in chocolate. Old-school candy-making in four ingredients, no thermometer needed.

Slow-cooked caramelized onions layered with oil-cured black olives and anchovy fillets in a buttery homemade crust. A rustic French-style open-faced savory pie.

Braided onion bread with three rolled strips filled with butter, finely chopped onions, garlic, paprika, sesame seeds, and grated cheese. A showstopping savory yeast loaf.

Paprika beef roll stuffs pounded round steak with mushrooms, onions, pimiento, bread crumbs, and stuffed olives, then roasts in red wine for two hours.

Lemon cookie sandwiches with bright lemon-zest filling pressed between crisp slice-and-bake butter rounds. The tops are brushed with egg white and chopped nuts for sparkle. A classic icebox cookie for the Christmas tray.

Mississippi mud cake loaded with cocoa, butter, and pecans under a thick chocolate buttercream icing. Dense, fudgy, and unapologetically Southern.

Vanilla sheet cake split and filled with a whipped butter-shortening cream made with evaporated milk. Cut into squares for individual cream-filled cakes that taste like homemade Twinkies.

Crumb-topped blueberry cake with a buttery cinnamon walnut streusel over fresh blueberries. A tender, lemony coffee cake best served warm from the oven.

Homemade Twinkle cake rolls with a fluffy vanilla cream filling made from butter, shortening, and evaporated milk. Bake in a sheet pan or potato tins, split, fill, and roll for a fun copycat treat.

Brown sugar cookie dough balls pressed onto pecan halves arranged like tiny turtle legs, then baked and topped with glossy chocolate frosting. Adorable, crunchy, and completely addictive holiday cookies.

Orange raisin bubble ring, a pull-apart yeast bread with buttered dough balls rolled in orange-zest sugar and layered in a tube pan with raisins. Served warm for breakfast or brunch.

Lemon cream and nut cookies, buttery shortbread ovals spread with homemade lemon curd and crowned with toasted almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, prunes, rum-soaked raisins, and candied orange. A jewel-box holiday cookie.

This cake is moist and tender and has a delightful frosting. I found this recipe in an old community cook book my Aunt gave me and it is very good. Great for a family dinner, picnic or potluck. One of my favorites!

Irish boiled dinner with feather dumplings: corned beef simmered low with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, and cabbage. Fluffy steamed dumplings cook right in the briny pot likker for the ultimate one-pot St. Patrick's Day spread.

Frosted pecan cuplets, bite-sized butter cookies rolled in chopped pecans with a tinted buttercream center. A festive thumbprint cookie for holiday cookie trays.

Parsley-stuffed Cornish game hens browned in butter, braised until fall-off-the-bone tender, and served with a silky whipping cream pan gravy. Simple ingredients, stunning results.