5,226 butter cake recipes

Chocolate potato cake made with hot mashed potatoes for an incredibly moist crumb, cocoa, cinnamon, and folded egg whites. Finished with tangy cream cheese frosting.

Aeblekage: a traditional Danish apple cake with cinnamon-dusted apples baked under a buttery cake batter. Equal-weight flour-sugar-butter ratio for tender, golden-topped slices.

Delicious! And simple to make in a large batch for appetizers. As made in Thrace, the soft-dough may be spread into a sheet and cut in squares before baking, or each shaped individually into daintly "bastounakia" (little canes or sticks). The word "trifti" identifies the texture - crisp and crumbly in the mouth.

Rustic wholemeal scones sweetened with honey and ready in 25 minutes. Just 6 ingredients, no mixer needed. Split them warm and slather with butter and jam.

These reduced-fat cheese biscuits are a bit of a healthier alternative to traditional cheese biscuits. They are made with minimal butter yet still cheesy and delicious.

Quick Southern spoon bread using whole beaten eggs and baking powder for easy prep. Creamy cornmeal pudding-bread hybrid ready in an hour.

Savannah crispy wafers made with butter, yogurt, and flour, rolled paper-thin and baked until golden. Top with sugar for sweet or Parmesan for savory. Just 6 ingredients.

Old-fashioned feather muffins made with just six pantry staples for a light, tender crumb. A simple vintage recipe that bakes up in minutes.

Browned butter cookies with a nutty, toasted flavor baked into every bite. Simple thumbprint-style cookies made with just five ingredients and ready in under an hour.

Blaeberry singin-hinnies are traditional Northumbrian griddle scones studded with blueberries and made with buttermilk. Golden, buttery, and cooked on a hot griddle instead of baked.

Big-batch oatmeal cookies with brown sugar and butter, no eggs, no chips. Mash flat with a sugar-dipped glass for crisp-edged, chewy-centered classics. Makes 10 dozen.

Honey drops candy boils pure honey with butter and a splash of lemon to hard ball stage, then pulls into chewy white taffy with a porous, melt-on-the-tongue texture.

Scotch shortbread is a 5-ingredient buttery Christmas cookie cut into festive shapes. Powdered sugar gives a melt-in-the-mouth crumb; tender, sandy, and made for sprinkling with colored sugar.

Rum raisin cake with mashed bananas, dark rum, allspice, and walnuts baked in a Bundt pan. Moist, boozy, and dusted with confectioners sugar.

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.

Mincemeat muffins with brandied fruit filling, chopped walnuts, and apple juice. Warmly spiced, fruity holiday muffins that bake up tender and studded with nuts.