465 shortening recipes

Fresh raspberry sour cream cake bakes whole berries and chopped walnuts into a tender tube cake. Topped with whipped cream and sugared raspberries for a summer dessert table centerpiece.

Braune Zucker Platzchen, traditional German brown sugar cookies with cinnamon, cloves, orange zest, raisins, and nuts. Spiced drop cookies that store well in airtight tins.

Peanut butter and jelly streusel bars with a brown sugar PB cookie base, strawberry jam middle, and oat-crumble topping. The lunchbox sandwich reinvented for the cookie tray.

Cape Cod blueberry cake folds fresh blueberries and bran flakes cereal into a lightly spiced one-bowl batter. A New England farmhouse cake with a tender, fiber-rich crumb served warm with whipped topping.

Whole wheat dinner rolls with oats, molasses, and honey for a dark, hearty crumb. Soft homemade yeast rolls with old-fashioned flavor, great for holidays and Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin empanadas fold brandy-tender pastry around cinnamon-spiced pumpkin filling, bake golden, and get dusted with cinnamon sugar. Mexican Thanksgiving and fall dessert hand pie.

Banana cake with peanut butter cream cheese icing and chopped peanuts. Tender buttermilk crumb, classic Elvis-style flavor pairing in sheet cake form. Refrigerate before serving.

Caramel nut thumbprint cookies combine cocoa dough rolled in pecans with gooey caramel centers. A holiday cookie-tray favorite with chocolate, nut, and caramel in one bite.

Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip cookies with rolled oats, shortening, and brown sugar. The famous 1992 cookie recipe that started the presidential bake-off tradition.

Double chocolate drops with cocoa powder dough and semi-sweet chocolate chips, using butter-flavor shortening for thick, chewy cookies loaded with walnuts. Big bakery-style cookies in 35 minutes.

Crispy-edged oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with pecans, made with shortening for that old-school chew. Three cups of oats, loads of brown sugar, and five dozen reasons to preheat your oven.

Soft, cake-like banana cookies with buttermilk and chopped nuts, topped with a thin vanilla confectioners' sugar icing. Chill the dough for puffier cookies. A vintage recipe with 18 reviews.

A spicy cookie with a mealy, rather unusual texture.

Moist date cake topped with brown sugar, pecans, and chocolate chips that melt into a crunchy, fudgy self-frosting as it bakes. One pan, no separate frosting needed.

Hearty homemade cracked wheat bread with whole wheat flour, molasses, and honey. Nutty, chewy, and deeply satisfying with a tender crumb and rustic crust.

Rich chocolate layer cake with cocoa, hot coffee, and a hint of almond extract. Colette's recipe bakes into two moist 9-inch layers that are begging for your favorite frosting.