5,226 butter cake recipes

Maple macadamia quick bread with whole wheat flour, buttermilk, and a warm maple-cinnamon glaze. Rich, nutty, and sweetened entirely with real maple syrup.

A simple lemon-scented butter cake split in half, layered with vanilla pudding, fresh berries, and clouds of whipped cream. Old-school German Erdbeertorte energy with minimal effort.

Original red velvet cake with old-school ermine frosting: tender buttermilk crumb tinted deep red, finished with the cooked-flour boiled milk icing that came before cream cheese took over.

Old-fashioned Nantucket molasses cookies with brown sugar, butter, and a soft, cake-like texture. Six pantry ingredients and no eggs, just like the New England whaling-era originals.

A classic Baltimore sheet cake with a soft, simple batter topped with rows of fresh peach slices, cinnamon sugar, and melted butter. This old-school Mid-Atlantic bakery favorite is summer in every bite.

Southern spoon bread made with stone-ground white cornmeal, eggs, butter, and milk. Custardy and soft enough to scoop with a spoon, with a golden crust on top.

Mrs. Fields $250 cookie recipe with ground oatmeal, double chocolate (chips and grated bar), two cups of butter, and chopped nuts. Makes 8 dozen legendary cookies.

Grasmere gingerbread: the famous Lake District gingerbread biscuit made with oatmeal, butter, ginger and golden syrup. Cross between a flapjack and a gingerbread, with origins in 1850s Cumbria.

Mexican delight is a stovetop praline-style candy made with caramelized sugar, milk, butter, and nuts cooked to soft-ball stage. Old-fashioned Southern fudge with a deep caramel backbone.

Individual pineapple upside-down cakes baked in small Pyrex dishes with a homemade cinnamon-pineapple syrup and a pineapple ring in each. Buttery, caramelized, and portion-perfect.

Moist Zucchini Parmesan Bread: a savory quick bread with shredded zucchini, sharp Parmesan, grated onion, and buttermilk for tang. Hearty enough to stand in for dinner rolls.

Mo Cookies are a big-batch chocolate chip and nut cookie that yields 60 generous, chewy rounds from a pound of butter and 6 cups of flour. Bake-sale and bake-along ready.

Kentucky bourbon cake with raisins soaked in whiskey, toasted pecans, and a bourbon brush after baking. A make-ahead Southern Bundt that gets better as it ages, wrapped in a bourbon-soaked cheesecloth.

Bette's coconut cake is a buttermilk tube cake soaked in hot coconut syrup for a moist, sticky-sweet finish. Loaded with flaked coconut and chopped nuts in every slice.

Tender buttermilk scones with wholesome bran flakes, lightly sweetened and golden-baked. From mixing bowl to breakfast table in 30 minutes.

Tender drop cookies with slivered almonds and almond extract, baked at low temperature until lightly golden. Classic sandies that melt in your mouth.