1,364 butter cookie recipes

A diabetic-friendly Dutch apple pie with an oat-cinnamon crumble topping, sugar-free pudding mix, and frozen apple juice concentrate for natural sweetness. All the cozy flavors, less sugar.

Rhubarb pie sweetened with applesauce instead of additional sugar, thickened with quick-cooking tapioca, and warmed with cinnamon and nutmeg under a lattice crust. The applesauce mellows the tart rhubarb naturally.

Single-serving broccoli rice soup made with leftover rice, cooked broccoli, and a surprising hint of apple. Serve chunky or puree it smooth. Ready in about 10 minutes of active cooking.

No-bake chocolate peanut butter candy squares made with chocolate frosting, oats, and chopped peanuts. Just 4 ingredients, no cooking, and ready in 30 minutes.

Ground cherry pie with a golden, sweet-tart filling thickened with tapioca and lemon juice in a flaky double crust. A rare, old-fashioned treat worth growing your own husk tomatoes for.

Copycat Popeye's red beans and rice with canned kidney beans mashed into a creamy, buttery, peppery base seasoned with white pepper and garlic, served over garlic butter rice.

Red cabbage apple casserole braised with onions, butter, and white wine, then baked with nutmeg. A German-Polish style side dish for pork roast, sausages, or holiday roast goose.

Oatmeal banana cupcakes sweetened with honey and mashed banana. Quick-cooking oats add hearty texture to a soft, tender crumb. Simple one-bowl method, ready in under an hour.

Quail breasts braised in a lemon-butter sauce with mushrooms, nutmeg, sherry, and Angostura bitters. A Southern-style game bird dish served over egg noodles.

Creamy ham and mushroom casserole with cheddar bechamel, steamed broccoli, and tender ham cubes over rice. A leftover-ham rescue mission with a from-scratch cheese sauce.

Mrs Fields apple cobbler cookies loaded with chopped Granny Smith apples, apple butter, raisins, and pecans, rolled in a cinnamon-oat crumb coating. Fall baking at its finest.

Deep plum pie with halved plums baked under overlapping pastry rounds, sweetened with brown and white sugar, warmed with cloves or cardamom and thickened with quick tapioca.

Cookies in a jiffy use a box of yellow cake mix plus oats, butter and an egg for fast, chewy drop cookies you can load with chocolate chips, butterscotch or M&M's. Five ingredients, ready in about 20 minutes.

A cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a biscuit.

This recipe came about from a need to clean out my refrigerator, I had some fruit that need to be eaten and I used them this way, the result was tart, crispy and just plain good. There are a lot of combinations of fruit you could use but this one works well.

Pan-fried sea scallops with a crispy bread crumb crust, sauteed in butter with a quick white wine pan sauce. Served over rice for an elegant 30-minute dinner.