3 Fancy Butter Recipes

Here's an easy and delicious idea to make, what I like to call, fancy butters! Fancy butters, or compound butters (as they are more commonly called) are butters that have been infused with other flavors. My great aunt always used to make honey butter for Thanksgiving and it was one of my all time favorite holiday treats! I love how you can package these butters and then gift them to dinner party guests.

Fancy butters are super easy to make! All you need is softened (but not melted) butter and your mix-in ingredients. To soften butter either leave it out on the kitchen counter for a few hours or you can soften it in the microwave on low heat for 20 seconds or so. Once the butter is softened add your ingredients and stir-that's it! You can package these in small jars or in wax paper in a square container in the refrigerator overnight.

Honey Nut Butter: Mix together two sticks of butter, 2-3 tablespoons of chopped nuts (I used pecans) and 3-4 tablespoons honey. This butter is great on an English muffin for breakfast or Thanksgiving dinner rolls!

Citrus Butter: Mix together two sticks of butter and the zest of 1 lemon and 1 lime. This butter is great on fish or sauteed veggies (like Brussels sprouts-my favorite!).

Raspberry Butter: Mix together two sticks of butter and 4-5 tablespoons of raspberry jam. This butter is excellent on an afternoon toast with tea!

Enjoy! XO. Emma + Elsie

Comments

[Jillian]

Are these fat free? :)

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[Mrs. Baker]

the honey nut butter sounds amazing! love this idea!

[Jen@madeinminch]

Will definitely give these a try! Thanks for sharing

[Mel J]

Great idea for valentines I cut my butter into a heart shape and so the raspberry one would be great for this! Thanks for sharing!

[teddi]

we do this with garlic butter, but i never thought to add honey nuts, berries, or citrus zests. i'm wowed again. :)

[Michelle]

This is so brilliant! I remember seeing Jamie Oliver use fancy butters for his Christmas dinner DVD and I always thought it was such a good idea. Plus you can always cut them into sections and freeze them and just use a section to give vegetables an awesome flavour infusion! Thanks for the creative flavour ideas!

[Cortney]

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[Rachel]

Something to make me love butter even more :)

[Beca]

honey butter is so good on sweet potatoes!!

[ruzu]

I never thought someone could make a interesting recipe like this, thanks for sharing!! :D

[Samantha]

I have honestly never ever heard of flavoring butter but now I am interested in trying this out.

[Joanne]

Oh, damn, girl, I am so making these!!

[The Curvy Girl]

YUM!! These sound sooooo good!

[Kathryn]

not really heard of fancy butters before, such a nice idea!

[Crystalyn]

That is such an adorable gift idea. I will have to remember this! My mother-in-law left some garlic butter at our house a while back, which was just some garlic mixed into one of those tubs of soft butter. It was nice to have for garlic bread or over veggies. (Your way is so much cuter!)

[Vee]

Those sure do sound delicious right about now! I think I'm going to have to try the Honey Nut one soon. :)

[marie]

raspberry butter on waffles no syrup required,love it on the week-ends

[Emilie @ Hungry Delights]

Wow! What a great idea... I have to try this :)
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[Sophia]

How great is this? I never thought I could actually do that. The jam recipe just blew me away!!!