Recipes with vegetable shortening

Light-as-air angel biscuits with a Southern double-rise of yeast and baking powder. Tender, fluffy, golden-topped, and ready to split open at supper to soak up gravy, butter, or strawberry jam.

If you like sweet and buttery, you'll love these little gems. Quick and easy if you use store-bought mini tart shells. Or your could make your own shells out of pastry dough and bake them in a mini muffin pan.

Yummy baking powder biscuits use just five pantry staples for tall, fluffy biscuits with crisp golden tops. Five-ingredient classic ready in 30 minutes, no buttermilk required.

Classic oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with rolled oats and shortening for guaranteed soft, chewy texture. Simple ingredients make 36 golden cookies in under 40 minutes.

Impress your relatives next Thanksgiving with this delicious peach cobbler that will turn heads.

Chewy oatmeal trail mix cookies loaded with chocolate chips, raisins, walnuts, and sunflower seeds. Soft centers, golden edges, and a backpack-friendly chew that holds up for days.

Love these biscuits! The texture was just wonderful, so flakey. So much better than those store-bought ones. This will be my go-to recipe for making biscuits.

Ensenada chili pot is a slow-cooker beef chuck chili with kidney beans, corn, tomatoes, pimientos, and green chiles, served over rice with shredded cheddar. A Baja-inspired Crock-Pot dinner.

A moist and fluffy coffee cake! Light, not too sweet, and very tasty, great dessert that fits summer perfectly!

Hershey's Kiss cookies: tender brown-sugar thumbprint cookies rolled in chopped nuts and crowned with a chocolate kiss the moment they exit the oven. A holiday cookie tray staple.

Snickerdoodles are soft, chewy cinnamon-sugar cookies with the signature tang of cream of tartar and crackly, sugar-coated tops. A classic that bakes up tender in the center every time.

Everyone loves peanut butter cookies, so try this simple recipe that's perfect for a light snack for the kids.

Become a champion with these soft, delicious cookies that will keep people reaching for the cookie jar.

Banana chocolate drop cookies with mashed ripe banana folded into the dough along with melted chocolate and chocolate chips. Soft, cake-like, and perfect for using up overripe bananas. Makes four dozen quick drop cookies.

Rich flavor from brown sugar and molasses, these gingersnaps are so buttery and flakey. Ginger, cinnamon and cloves spice them up, giving the cookies delicious flavor. Use them to make crust for pie or cheesecake, or just eating these yummy treats is a joy thing to do.

Easy cheesy biscuits with self-rising flour, shortening, and shredded cheddar. Just 4 ingredients and 22 minutes for fluffy cheese-loaded biscuits.

This is an awesome bread. It is SO pretty and delicious. It will be made for Christmas Gifts! I do recommend this...it is very moist. Turkey sandwiches were yummy! wilsie

Moist cinnamon-spiced rhubarb cake topped with a crunchy brown sugar and nut streusel. This simple sheet cake celebrates fresh rhubarb in every tender bite.

Chocolate chip cookies built on shortening and all brown sugar for a chewy-edged, soft-centered crumb studded with semi-sweet chips and chopped pecans. Bake 8 minutes for chewy or 13 for crisp.

Peanut butter bulgur cookies blend creamy peanut butter dough with chewy reconstituted bulgur wheat for a heartier, fiber-rich version of the classic peanut butter cookie.

Flaky buttermilk biscuits with golden-brown tops, ready in 30 minutes from a simple dough enriched with eggs and butter. These American-style biscuits rise tall and tender, perfect for soaking up gravy or splitting for breakfast sandwiches.

Grandma's baking powder biscuits use five pantry ingredients to deliver tall, flaky biscuits with crisp golden tops and tender layers inside. Cut, drop, or buttermilk variations all baked in a hot oven for that signature lift. Old-school comfort, no fancy gear needed.

Molasses not only gives the pumpkin pie a darker and richer color, but it also lends a tangy flavor to the pie. Rum adds extra yumminess, and it's a great pair with molasses. Nobody wants to resist one slice of this delicious pumpkin pie.

Sugary, crunchy topping. Delicious, delicate, and slightly spicy cake. Perfect to enjoy while sipping coffee!

Ultimate chocolate chip cookies with three dressy variations: chocolate drizzle, chocolate dipped, and holiday frosted. One base dough, endless options for gifting, parties, and cookie exchanges.

First definitely agree with first review, and these muffins turned out fluffy, buttery and moist, and every bite just felt like melting in the mouth. If you are looking for a pumpkin muffin recipe, this is the one, and you will be so pleased by the result.

Not a good picture but any pic.is better than none. My beer bread comes out light and very tasty not dark like this.

Best ever French bread uses a stir-and-rest method instead of kneading for a crusty, chewy loaf with a glossy egg-washed crust. Adapts to wheat, rye, cheese, or herb.

They are so easy to make, and they are so delicious! Make your own freshly baked cookies at home.

Homemade Oreo sandwich cookies with crispy fudge cake mix wafers and a velvety cream filling. Just 3 ingredients for the cookies and 4 for the filling. A fun baking project the whole family will love.

Cocoa bundt cake with chocolate glaze: a one-bowl buttermilk batter that turns out tall, tender, and deeply chocolatey thanks to a half cup of cocoa and a quick double-speed beat.

Pugach pie - Eastern European filled yeast bread with your choice of cabbage, potato, or sauerkraut filling, sealed and rolled flat, then brushed with browned butter.

Easy to scale down to make one or two loaves. Shortening can be replaced by butter. You will love the aroma during the baking, it fills up the entire house with freshly baked bread smell.

Fluffy baking powder biscuits: a quick seven-ingredient biscuit dough with shortening and a touch of cream of tartar for tall, light, tender biscuits. Ready in 22 minutes start to finish.

Classic chocolate whoopie pies with soft cocoa cake rounds sandwiching fluffy marshmallow cream filling. New England's lunchbox legend, made the old-fashioned way with shortening for that signature tender crumb.

Tired of making cookies and muffins? Try this tasty snack that is sure to make you a fan.

Classic grated potato pancakes (latkes) fried golden and crisp on the outside, tender on the inside. Onion, egg, and flour bind freshly grated potato into the original comfort-food fritter.

Sourdough biscuits made with 1½ cups of active starter for tangy, fluffy biscuits with crisp golden tops. The classic chuckwagon recipe that uses up extra discard.

Cranberry nut bundt cake studded with whole tart cranberries, dates, and nuts, then drenched in a hot orange glaze that soaks deep into the warm cake. The Thanksgiving and Christmas dessert that gets better the longer it sits.

Annie Mae Jones' sweet potato biscuits: Southern-style biscuits with mashed sweet potato folded into a buttery shortening dough, cut into squares and baked golden. Eat warm with butter.

Almond pound cake baked from a cold-oven start, with butter, shortening, and evaporated milk for a tight, tender crumb. Almond extract perfumes every slice. The cold-start trick gives a crackless top and even rise.

Moist date cake with a crunchy topping of chocolate chips, sugar, and chopped nuts baked right on top. Dates soaked in boiling water create an incredibly tender crumb. A vintage 9x13 sheet cake that's earned a loyal following.

Moist chocolate applesauce cake topped with sugar, chocolate chips, and chopped nuts. No frosting needed for this one-pan picnic cake that stays soft thanks to two cups of applesauce.

Traditional crusty loaf that gets its sweetness from a little brown sugar.

While growing up, my Polish-Russian grandmother, who lived with our family, made these little meat patties quite often and they were a family favorite. Here is my rendition, from what I remember when cooking with Grandma, as she never wrote the recipe down. The patties were always served with mashed potatoes, green beans, applesauce, and, of course, plenty of ketchup for the patties.

The best chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. Nothing out of place, just a simple exceptionally delicious cookie that turns out utterly perfect every time.

Touched by Angels, light as a feather melt in your mouth biscuits.

Double pecan pie: a layer of crushed pecans beneath a gooey corn syrup filling, crowned with pecan halves, all in a tender homemade crust. Twice the pecans, twice the crunch.