1,052 butter cake recipes

Chocolate chip cake with a dense, moist sour cream crumb and a full bag of chocolate chips baked in a tube pan. Simple, buttery, and loaded with melted chocolate in every slice.

Soft, cakey cranberry drop cookies loaded with whole fresh cranberries, walnuts, and a touch of lemon juice. Makes 3 dozen festive holiday cookies with a tender crumb.

Oatmeal scones with hearty rolled oats, sweet currants, and whole wheat pastry flour. Fiber-rich scones with crisp edges, a tender chewy center, and a glossy egg-washed top.

Royal coconut cookies: chewy oatmeal-coconut drop cookies built on brown sugar and butter. Crisp edges, tender centers, and toasty coconut flavor in every bite.

Rich, buttery banana bread with a full cup of melted butter, chopped nuts, and a generous helping of ripe mashed bananas. Makes one large loaf or two smaller ones. Freezes beautifully.

This keeps well and is excellent for a morning coffee party.

Buttermilk pecan fruitcake made with dried pears and toasted pecans instead of the usual neon candied fruit. Buttermilk keeps the crumb tender, beaten egg whites give it lift. A gift-worthy Christmas loaf.

Farmer's bran bread builds a sour-milk quick bread loaf from cut-and-stacked rectangles brushed with butter. Old-fashioned pull-apart fiber-rich loaf, homestead-kitchen classic.

A three-layer Christmas cream cake with coconut and walnuts in a buttermilk batter, frosted with cream cheese icing studded with chopped maraschino cherries. Southern holiday baking at its prettiest.

A basic, delicious cookie that will satisfy the tastes of butterscotch-lovers everywhere.

Chocolate sweetheart sandwich cookies with cocoa dough puffed and crackled, filled with vanilla buttercream. Homemade Oreo-style cookies with a rich, creamy center.

Mom's pineapple nut loaf with crushed pineapple, golden raisins, and chopped nuts in a simple quick bread batter. A moist, fruity loaf where the pineapple juice activates the baking soda for a tender crumb.

Homemade rugelach filled with ground walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, and sugar, rolled into crescent shapes from a buttery honey-enriched dough. A classic Jewish bakery cookie.

Chewy chocolate chip cookies with powdered oats, grated chocolate bar, and chocolate chips for triple chocolate intensity. A big-batch recipe that makes five dozen.

German chocolate cake from scratch with a cooked coconut-pecan frosting. Three layers of buttermilk chocolate cake topped with a rich, chewy caramel-style filling.

Nutty apricot bars with a coconut-pecan crumble crust and jammy dried apricot filling. A layered fruit bar that's part cookie, part shortcake, chilled and sliced from the pan.