4,372 butter dream recipes

A French patisserie masterpiece: three crisp almond meringue layers sandwiched with silky hazelnut praline buttercream, finished with toasted almonds and powdered sugar.

Overnight yeasted pancakes with pure maple syrup and chopped walnuts. The fermented batter gives these a tangy, sourdough-like depth that regular pancakes can only dream about. Worth the wait.

Ice cream pie with a self-forming spice cake crust that collapses into a pie shell as it bakes. Filled with maple nut or cinnamon ice cream and frozen until firm.

A show-stopping heart-shaped cake for Valentine's Day made from one square and one round cake, frosted in pink vanilla buttercream and covered in tinted coconut. Decorated with gumdrop hearts and fruit roll bows.

Pineapple dream cake made with pineapple juice in the batter and topped with a whipped shortening frosting folded with cooked pineapple. A fluffy, tropical two-layer cake.

Fruited cream puffs: shortcut pate a choux made with pancake mix, filled with ice cream and topped with sweetened strawberries. Ten elegant frozen desserts from pantry staples.

Stacked New Mexico quesadillas layer flour tortillas with shredded chicken, zucchini, bell pepper, and Monterey Jack cheese. Baked until melty and served with red pepper sour cream sauce and fresh salsa.

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.

Oven-puffed peaches and cream pancake: a dramatic Dutch baby with sliced peaches, pecans, and cinnamon baked into the custardy batter. Finished with an almond-scented sour cream drizzle.

Cocoa thumbprint cookies rolled in sugar and filled with creamy peanut butter frosting. Loaded with chocolate chips and a sweet PB center. Makes 4 dozen irresistible little buttons.

Australian melting moments biscuits: cornstarch-tender shortbread cookies sandwiched around vanilla buttercream icing. Makes 30 sandwich biscuits in 2 hours.

Mississippi mud cake loaded with cocoa, butter, and pecans under a thick chocolate buttercream icing. Dense, fudgy, and unapologetically Southern.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies studded with mini chocolate chips and filled with a creamy peanut butter center. The chocolate-peanut butter combo makes these vanish from any cookie tray.

Jeanne's cake stacks a tender vanilla cake on a crisp shortbread base, all wrapped in silky old-fashioned ermine frosting, the cooked-flour kind that's fluffy and far less sweet than buttercream.

It tastes very good and gives a thicker consistency similar to buttercream.

Elegant French layer cake with genoise, fresh strawberries, buttercream, and crème fraîche whipped cream. This show-stopping dacquoise is soaked with Framboise liqueur.