5,096 butter cake recipes

Chocolate heart sandwich cookies with almond extract, pink buttercream frosting, and a peek-through cutout center. A Valentine's Day baking project with show-stopping results.

Apple streusel muffins with buttermilk, walnuts, cinnamon, and cloves topped with a brown sugar crumble. Warm, spiced, and bakery-worthy from a simple batter.

Classic rolled-and-cut Christmas sugar cookies sprinkled with colored sugar before baking. Crisp, buttery, and ready for stars, trees, and bells without any frosting required.

Chocolate vinegar cake with no eggs or milk, mixed in one bowl using the three-well method, topped with a mocha chocolate frosting made with hot coffee. A Depression-era classic.

Rhubarb and nut streusel cake with thickened tart rhubarb filling sandwiched between buttery cake layers and topped with crumbly streusel. A spring coffee cake that turns rhubarb season into dessert.

Surprise devil's food cake with hidden beets: a deeply rich, moist chocolate cake with cocoa, buttermilk, and grated beets stirred in for extra tenderness. Kids will never guess.

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

Flaky buttermilk biscuits with fresh parsley, chives, and oregano. Cold butter cut into flour creates tall, layered biscuits with an herb-flecked crumb.

Painted sugar cookies decorated before baking with egg yolk paint and food coloring. A fun, creative baking project for kids that skips messy icing entirely.

Freezer-friendly sour cream drop cookies with cardamom that bake straight from frozen. Make the dough ahead, freeze for up to 6 months, and bake fresh warm cookies whenever the craving hits.

Twice-baked Italian biscotti packed with chopped nuts, butter, and vanilla. A dunk-ready coffee cookie with a hard, crunchy snap and rich vanilla-nut flavor.

Pumpkin squares blend canned pumpkin with mincemeat, nutmeg, and allspice in a tender bar cookie, then frost with cream cheese icing. A holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Classic anise pizzelles made with a full ounce of anise extract, butter, and a touch of lemon. Thin, crisp Italian wafer cookies pressed in a pizzelle iron in 30 seconds each.

Scotch shortbread with just five ingredients: butter, flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. A classic, buttery, sandy-textured cookie that melts on the tongue.

Frosted spice fruit cookies are old-fashioned molasses-spice rolled cookies loaded with walnuts, golden raisins, and dates, finished with an orange juice glaze. Holiday cookie tin staple.

Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies made extra tender with sour cream. Brown sugar, cinnamon, chopped nuts, and plump raisins in every bite. Makes about 4 and a half dozen.