10,000 butter recipes

Easy toffee bars made with just 4 ingredients: soda crackers, butter, brown sugar, and chocolate. Also called Christmas crack, these addictive bars are crispy, buttery, and chocolate-topped.

Foamy cranberry sauce is a whipped butter and powdered sugar dessert sauce with cranberry juice, orange zest, and beaten egg white. Light, fluffy, and made for cranberry pudding.

Pasta twists in a creamy asparagus sauce made with butter, olive oil, half-and-half, and a bouillon cube. A simple Italian-style pasta ready in 40 minutes.

Mahogany icing with cocoa, strong coffee, butter, and powdered sugar. A rich mocha frosting with a deep, dark color that comes together in 10 minutes with no cooking.

Fruity couscous sauteed in butter with rum-soaked raisins, sugar, and chopped nuts, topped with yogurt. A sweet, nutty side dish or light dessert ready in 25 minutes.

Cheesy garlic bread with melted Swiss, garlic butter, and parsley spread between slices of French bread. The pull-apart loaf appetizer that ruins regular garlic bread for everyone.

Grilled lamb cutlets with a silky snow pea and fresh basil puree finished with butter and cream. An elegant, restaurant-quality lamb dish with a vibrant green side.

Hasenpfeffer, the German-American marinated rabbit stew: rabbit pickled 2 days in spiced vinegar brine, browned in butter, braised in its own marinade, and finished with sour cream.

Sweet Southern honey rice tossed with roasted peanuts, melted butter, cinnamon, and ginger. A warm, fragrant side dish that turns plain cooked rice into something special in minutes.

Veal olives: old-fashioned stuffed veal rolls with buttered bread crumb filling, onion, and clove, tied and pan-braised until tender. A vintage recipe garnished with hard-boiled egg slices.

No-bake muesli and honey cookies with melted chocolate and butter, pressed into a pan and cut into triangles. Just 4 ingredients, no oven needed, and ready after chilling.

Pan-fried whole trout in a crispy flour-cornmeal coating served alongside buttered fiddlehead ferns. A classic springtime catch-and-cook meal that celebrates wild ingredients at their seasonal peak.

Portuguese biscotti, lemon-scented ring-shaped butter cookies with a crisp, slightly crumbly texture. A Portuguese-American tradition that differs from Italian biscotti with lemon and a single bake.

Old-California empanadita pastry with a flaky cream cheese and butter dough. A versatile chilled make-ahead dough for sweet or savory hand pies, brushed with egg wash before baking.

Caramelized onion topping with rosemary and toasted pine nuts, slow-cooked in butter and olive oil. A savory make-ahead spread for crostini, pizza, roast meats, or tossed with pasta.

Roast leg of venison, no marinade required, larded with salt pork and garlic, rubbed with thyme butter, and roasted to rare with a quick pan gravy from the drippings.