229 buttermilk recipes

Pillowy soft buttermilk drop cookies baked until pale golden get frosted with sweet buttercream and sprinkled with colored sugar for nostalgic treats.

Lovage, potato, and buttermilk soup with a velvety puree and tangy finish. A light, herbaceous soup that works hot or chilled with just five ingredients.

Buttermilk chocolate hazelnut cake bakes whole wheat pastry flour with cocoa, brown sugar, and a layer of toasted hazelnuts. Lighter, healthier chocolate cake with no butter and no whole eggs.

Beef meatballs in tangy buttermilk gravy served over noodles or homemade spaetzle. Pan-fried with mustard and onion for old-fashioned German-American flavor.

Buttermilk biscuits make these cinnamon rolls super easy and my kids love them.

Whole wheat coffee cake with cardamom, buttermilk, and crunchy oat-walnut crumb topping. Healthy breakfast treat bakes in 40 minutes, serves 16.

Buttermilk chocolate cake with fudge icing, a moist, tender chocolate sheet cake made with buttermilk and boiling water, topped with a cooked, poured fudge frosting that sets glossy and rich.

Pressure cooker buttermilk bread steams a tangy quickbread batter into a moist tender loaf. No oven needed for this old-fashioned steamed bread.

Texas-style buttermilk pecan pralines with a caramel-colored, melt-on-your-tongue center. Makes nearly 4 dozen candies from a classic Cook 'Em Horns recipe.

Chilled Spiced Strawberry, Orange and Buttermilk Soup recipe.

Nick's peach cobbler tops three and a half pounds of fresh sliced peaches with a tender buttermilk biscuit crust. Cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon zest, and pieces of butter make a syrupy summer dessert.

Three-ingredient raspberry sherbet made with frozen raspberries, buttermilk, and sugar. No ice cream maker needed. Just blend, freeze, and scoop. Tangy, fruit-forward, and lighter than ice cream.

Two-ingredient beer muffins with biscuit baking mix and a cup of beer. The fastest, laziest from-scratch [muffin](/recipes/muffins) recipe ever, ready in 30 minutes.

Cracker Barrel-style biscuits use just Bisquick and buttermilk for tender, easy-split biscuits that taste like the restaurant. The double-stack trick is the secret to perfect splits.

Cheddar mashed potatoes made creamy with buttery Yukon Golds, tangy buttermilk, and extra-sharp cheddar melted right into the mash. Fresh chives add a green oniony bite to this lighter comfort-food side.

Breakfast fruit sherbet blends ripe honeydew, kiwi, buttermilk, sugar, and lime juice into a no-churn frozen treat. Light, tangy, naturally low-fat alternative to morning yogurt.