Recipes with vegetable shortening

Soft honey walnut drop cookies with sour cream, flaked coconut, and vanilla. Chewy, cakey, and lightly sweet with a walnut half pressed on top of each one.

Pinwheel pumpkin cookies are jelly-roll style spirals with a spiced pumpkin and nut filling rolled into cinnamon cookie dough, sliced thin, baked golden, and finished with vanilla icing.

Pumpkin pecan crumble pie with a from-scratch pastry crust, classic spiced pumpkin custard, and a buttery brown sugar pecan streusel baked on top for crunch.

Cinnamon roll-style biscuits baked upside-down in an orange juice, butter, and orange zest syrup. Flip onto a platter for a sticky, citrusy breakfast treat.

Slow cooker sloppy joes with ground beef, ketchup, tomato paste, Worcestershire, and vinegar. Brown the meat, dump everything in the crock pot, and come home to thick, tangy sandwich filling.

Cream cheese chocolate cake with unsweetened baking chocolate and a built-in frosting. The same chocolate-cream cheese base makes both the batter and the rich confectioners sugar frosting.

Cream cheese chocolate cake with unsweetened baking chocolate and a built-in frosting. The same chocolate-cream cheese base makes both the batter and the rich confectioners sugar frosting.

Frosted chocolate pound cake with cocoa in both the batter and icing, baked in a tube pan. Dense, velvety, and loaded with butter and five eggs for richness.

Small-batch walnut brownies baked in a loaf pan with cocoa powder, one egg, and vegetable shortening. Dense, fudgy, and scaled for two to four people instead of a crowd.

Toasted nut spice cake with brown sugar meringue baked right on top. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a moist sour milk batter, crowned with a crispy-chewy nut meringue layer that bakes alongside the cake.

Try this scrumptious pudding made with cake flour, cornstarch and a pinch of nutmeg.

Slice and bake gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon. Make the dough, freeze in logs, and bake fresh cookies anytime for up to six months.

Milk and honey casserole bread with whole wheat flour baked in a round dish instead of a loaf pan. A no-knead yeast bread with a soft, tender crumb sweetened with honey.

Holiday molasses crinkles are spiced sugar-coated cookies with cracked, snowy tops. The water-droplet trick guarantees that signature crinkled surface every time. Soft inside, slightly crisp at the edges.

Beginner-friendly no-fail pie crust with just four ingredients: flour, shortening, salt, and cold water. A flaky, tender single 9-inch crust ready in 20 minutes for any pie, sweet or savory.

Ice Box Cookies: Ice box cookies are a boon for the busy person because they can be prepared in advance and stored in the freezer until needed. Just slice and bake when desired, and you have a great home made cookie.