3,548 buttery recipes

Pasta flora is a Greek lattice tart with cognac-spiked butter pastry filled with apricot marmalade and finished with a crisscross dough top. Sliced into bakery-style squares.

Quick sauteed salmon steaks pan-finished in butter with soy sauce and garlic powder, plated with lemon. Five ingredients, 15 minutes, weeknight-dinner heroics for under $10 a serving.

Flambed ice cream sauce of buttered green grapes, hot chiles, rum, honey, and warm spices. A sweet-heat dessert topping that takes 20 minutes and shocks the palate awake.

White chocolate brownies (blondies) with chunks of semisweet chocolate folded into a tender, butter-rich batter. Sweet, dense and dotted with dark chocolate pockets. Better than the box mix.

Impossible pumpkin pie that creates its own crust as it bakes, made by blending biscuit mix, pumpkin, eggs, and milk into one pie pan. Crustless pumpkin pie in 50 minutes with zero rolling pin required.

Boneless chicken breasts pan-seared in butter under a generous paprika and garlic crust, then finished in a quick Alouette cheese sauce. A modern shortcut version of classic chicken paprikash, ready in 30 minutes.

Ring-A-Ling Ringers are quick Bisquick shortcakes with a deep thumbprint filled with spiced prune filling, apricot, or raspberry jam. A retro biscuit pastry ready in under an hour.

Double crust apple pie pre-cooks the apple filling on the stovetop before baking. This smart technique prevents soggy bottom crust and delivers tender, perfectly shaped apple slices under a flaky sour cream dough.

Jewish rugelach with a flaky cottage cheese dough, apricot jam, cinnamon-sugar, walnuts, and currants rolled into golden crescents. A holiday cookie jar essential for Hanukkah or Christmas.

Chocolate walnut torte is a flourless-style European cake built on bittersweet chocolate, butter, ground walnuts, and whipped egg whites. Dense, fudgy center with just enough flour for structure, finished with a chocolate rum glaze.

Holiday master butter cookie dough combines flour, cornstarch, and creamed butter into a tender, rollable base for cut-outs, Linzers, thumbprints, and pinwheels. Chills up to 3 days or freezes up to 6 months.

Lamb rib chops broiled under a rosemary-garlic quince jelly glaze. A 15-minute dinner-party main with a sweet-savory lacquer that caramelizes under the broiler.

Roasted Cornish hens brushed with olive oil, parsley, and thyme, served with pan-gravy mushrooms, glazed carrots, and Brussels sprouts. A rustic Sunday dinner plate, scaled small.

Greek fish baked in grape leaves with lemon-thyme-fennel marinade and anchovy butter. Whole small fish wrapped and oven-baked for moist, herbed, Mediterranean-style flesh and dramatic presentation.

Deep-dish peach pie: a baking dish heaped with juicy peaches and brown sugar under a single flaky, golden top crust. A fruit-forward summer pie that lets the peaches shine.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with nutmeg, rolled and cut into rounds with a sugar-sprinkled top. Soft, tender, and lightly spiced with a big-batch yield of 60 cookies.