5,742 butter milk recipes

Bread machine pizza dough made with basic pantry ingredients. Let the machine knead, pull it before the bake cycle, and shape for homemade pizza night.

Buttery phyllo layers stuffed with a creamy semolina filling, baked golden and drenched in lemon-kissed syrup. This Turkish-style muhallebili baklava skips the nuts for a silky, custard-like center that melts on your tongue.

Raspberry nut cake: a tender buttermilk-cinnamon layer cake studded with fresh raspberries and chopped nuts, finished with pink raspberry-puree frosting. The most photogenic layer cake on the table.

Peanut fudge is old-school stovetop chocolate fudge made with milk, corn syrup, and unsweetened chocolate, beaten to the classic soft-ball stage and loaded with salted peanuts.

Bran molasses muffins made with All-Bran cereal, dark molasses, and plump raisins. A hearty, old-fashioned breakfast muffin with a dense, moist crumb and rich caramel sweetness.

Pineapple fudge cooked stovetop with crushed pineapple, marshmallows, and pecans, then beaten to a creamy, old-fashioned finish. Ready in 30 minutes and yields nearly 49 pieces.

Chocolate chip cookies made from yellow cake mix with just 5 extra ingredients. Soft, cakey cookies with walnuts that come together in minutes and bake in 12.

A savory asparagus soup that can be enjoyed plain or used as a base for stews and casseroles.

Chocolate lovers will adore this decadent cake made with almonds and served with vanilla ice cream.

Loaf leavened with yeast. Requires a bread machine. Here's one of my favorite breads to make. The trick here is to use stone ground cornmeal, not the powdered/bleached variety. It gives the bread a great flavor, and a really nice coarse texture. The combination of ingredients give it a very different flavor than standard banana/nut or pan-baked corn bread.

Challenge Winner, AJ Horst (Test Your Tastebuds, October 2011)

Chocolate walnut bar cookies cut into neat triangles with a smooth vanilla butter frosting. Fudgy, nutty, and cute enough for a cookie tray or bake sale.

Light, puffy Swiss cheese and mushroom souffle with a splash of sherry and a hint of nutmeg. A show-stopping vegetarian main dish that rises to the occasion every time.

Simple Irish soda-style bread with butter, raisins, and no yeast. Creamed butter and sugar give it a tender, cake-like crumb. Just mix and bake.

No-bake oatmeal fudge cookies with cocoa, evaporated milk, butter, and rolled oats. Drop-style cookies that set on waxed paper into chewy, chocolatey rounds. No oven required.

Hearty homemade yeast bread with bran, dark molasses, and sunflower seeds. Two rustic loaves with a chewy crust and soft, nutty crumb. Worth every minute of the rise.