2,027 shortening recipes

Oatmeal cookies packed with chopped dates, sweetened coconut, and nuts in an orange juice-brown sugar dough. Three cups of oats for serious chew, plus cinnamon warmth in every bite.

Buttermilk bundt cake with a chocolate swirl baked in a fluted tube pan and finished with a chocolate chip drizzle. Tender crumb with a fudgy ribbon inside.

Chocolate jimmy cake studded with chocolate sprinkles, flavored with cold coffee, and topped with a creamy vanilla frosting. A nostalgic New England bakery-style cake baked in a springform pan.

Fruit tarts with a retro cheese pastry shell filled with orange and pineapple pastry cream, finished with sharp cheddar. Sweet meets savory in this cheddar-apple-pie-school classic.

Fruit tarts with cheddar cheese pastry shells filled with pineapple and orange curd. A vintage sweet-and-savory dessert where sharp cheddar meets tropical citrus.

Crispy pantry tuna patties with celery, scallions, and soft breadcrumbs, pan-fried golden and served with a quick lemon sour cream sauce. Pantry dinner that doubles as next-day cold lunch.

Soft yeasted cinnamon rolls with brown sugar filling and a vanilla glaze, baked together in a 13x9 pan. Pull-apart pastries that fill the kitchen with the smell of cinnamon and yeast.

Moist chocolate cake with hot coffee, cocoa, and vegetable oil for an extra-tender crumb. Topped with the old-fashioned cooked-flour buttercream that tastes like whipped cream.

Holly Cluster cookies: chewy brown-sugar chocolate chip cookies topped with green marzipan holly leaves and red cinnamon candy berries. Holiday cookie tray showpiece with old-school decorating charm.

Chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies with soft cake-like chocolate rounds and a fluffy marshmallow cream filling. Homemade whoopie pies for lunchboxes, bake sales, and after-school snacks.

Classic Southern red velvet cake with cocoa-tinted buttermilk batter and traditional cooked-milk ermine frosting. The original layer cake before cream cheese frosting became standard.

Shaker honey almond cake bakes a spice-warmed honey-sour cream batter under a crown of almonds, then ripens 2 days for deeper flavor. Heritage New England keeping cake.

A one-of-a-kind three-layer cake with cranberries, pecans, shredded wheat cereal, and orange zest, topped with orange cream cheese frosting. The name says sorry but every bite says wow.

Mandelbreit is a Jewish almond bread sliced twice-baked style with three fillings: cocoa, walnuts, and candied fruit. Aging the rolls in foil for a week deepens the flavor.

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.

Cookie dough brownies layered three ways: a fudgy cocoa brownie base, a thick egg-free cookie dough filling, and a glossy chocolate glaze finished with chopped walnuts. Bakery-style bars done at home.