10,000 buttery recipes

Classic New York cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, silky cream cheese and sour cream filling, and a no-crack hot-then-low oven method for a perfectly smooth top.

Open-faced egg and cheese sandwiches on toasted English muffins with scrambled eggs, onion, green pepper, and broiled American cheese. A 15-minute breakfast for six.

40 clove garlic chicken with chicken breasts braised in butter, oil, and dry vermouth alongside whole garlic cloves that caramelize sweet and tender. The French classic that turns garlic into the star.

Jack Daniel's whiskey sauce with sauteed mushrooms, green onions, and beef broth thickened into a rich gravy. Pour it over grilled or broiled chicken.

Portuguese biscoitos shaped into rings from hand-rolled dough ropes. A simple butter and egg cookie that bakes golden, lightly sweet, and crisp.

Pecan turtle bars with a buttery shortbread crust, bubbly brown sugar caramel layer, whole pecans, and swirled milk chocolate on top. Addictively rich cookie bars.

Whole bananas baked in their skins until caramelized and tender, then split and loaded with butter, salt, and pepper. Three ingredients, 20 minutes, pure Brazilian comfort.

James Beard's hands-on masterclass in a three-layer cake: beating butter by hand, folding egg whites like a soufflé, and mastering classic technique for a fluffy golden crumb with citrus filling.

New Year's Eve chocolate clock cake stacks three layers of egg-white sponge with stovetop chocolate cream filling and Hungarian chocolate frosting, then iced with a clock face for the midnight countdown.

Patty Ann's cheese cake tarts: bite-size cream cheese pastry shells with two fillings, pecan and coconut. Muffin-tin desserts for holiday cookie trays.

This is just like the recipe my mother used to make, that I lost and have been searching for, for Christmas dinner.

Kangaroo steak with wild mushrooms and red wine, seared fast in butter and served pink inside. An authentic Australian recipe ready in 15 minutes on a skillet or barbecue plate.

Caramel pecan bars with a buttery shortbread crust topped with pecan halves in a honey-brown sugar caramel finished with cream. Makes 50 bars from one jelly roll pan.

A chocolate pecan fudge-like frosting makes this Sheet Cake

Broiled filet mignon brushed with butter and oil, cooked fast under high heat for a seared crust and a rosy, tender middle. A simple steakhouse classic you can nail at home in 10 minutes.

Parcha bozbash is an Azerbaijani lamb soup with chestnuts, quince, prunes, and chickpeas simmered in a rich broth and finished with ghee. Warming, fruit-kissed, and deeply aromatic.