10,000 butter recipes

Garden herb bread baked in the bread machine: white bread loaf infused with chives, marjoram, thyme, and basil for a fragrant sandwich or dinner bread. Hands-off, ready in about an hour.

Homemade barbecue sauce simmered with butter-softened onions, garlic, chili sauce, brown sugar, lemon, Worcestershire, and a full can of beer. The malty grilling sauce ready in the time it takes to fire up the coals.

Cola cake: a Southern chocolate sheet cake made with real cola, melted marshmallows, cocoa, and tangy buttermilk. Fudgy, fizzy, and a one-bowl Saturday afternoon project.

Butterscotch monkey bread: frozen dinner rolls layered with nuts, butterscotch pudding, and cinnamon-sugar butter, left to rise overnight, then baked into a gooey caramel pull-apart. An easy brunch treat.

This popular chocolate and hazelnut sauce or spread, almost everybody loves it, but do you know it is actually so easy to make, and the flavor is just absolutely delicious!

Oyster corn chowder simmers briny oysters and sweet corn with leeks, prosciutto, and cream, then folds in cooked orzo for a hearty seafood chowder. Coastal comfort in a single pot.

Honey brownies sweetened with honey instead of sugar, made with melted semi-sweet chocolate, butter, and chopped walnuts. Fudgy, dense, and naturally moist.

Sauteed pork chops with a rich pan sauce of shallots, white wine, Dijon mustard, and julienned sour pickles. A French-inspired weeknight dinner for two.

Taffy apple cookies are buttery bite-sized cookies on toothpicks, dipped in melted caramel and rolled in chopped nuts. Holiday party trick that looks like mini caramel apples.

Chocolate pumpkin layer cake with a warm brown-sugar frosting that sets to a fudgy crust. Cocoa and pumpkin pie spice make this two-layer cake rich, moist, and irresistible for fall baking.

Christmas kedgeree is a British Boxing Day brunch classic: flaked smoked fish folded with cooked rice, curry powder, cream, and hard-boiled eggs. An Anglo-Indian tradition from the Raj that holds up as holiday comfort food.

Glazed fresh fruit pie with bananas, strawberries, pineapple, and kiwi in a pineapple-gelatin glaze on a gingersnap-graham cracker crust. A stunning no-bake dessert.

These pretty little peppermint-flavored cookies are a tasty, colorful addition to any holiday cookie box.

Two-egg layer cake with seven-minute frosting: a classic butter-and-milk yellow cake paired with the legendary cloud-like boiled egg-white frosting. Retro Americana baking at its finest.

Bread machine semolina bread with buttermilk and durum semolina flour. Pale gold, fine-textured Italian-style sandwich loaf with a tender tangy crumb.

This is a great accompaniment or serve as a main course with some grilled halloumi cheese.