Make your own gourmet butter to add amazing flavor and zest to bread, fresh homemade biscuits, steamed vegetables, or even on meat, fish, or chicken dishes. Homemade gourmet butter can be sweet or savory.
Compound butter sometimes referred to as gourmet butter, is a combination of real butter and complementary ingredients that can render the finished product sweet or savory. Similar to condiments, they are frequently used to enhance the flavor of an entrée.
How to MYO Gourmet Butter
Combine all of the ingredients (from your desired flavor listed below) in a chopper or food processor and pulse until thoroughly combined. Transfer the butter onto a sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap and form it into a small log.
Wrap the log well, twisting the ends to secure, and refrigerate up to 2 weeks. All butter should be brought to room temperature before preparing the recipe unless otherwise stated.
Real Butter, Spreads, or Margarine?
Making your own flavored butter is very simple, but you need to start with a good quality real plain butter, NOT margarine, spreads, or butter substitute. You’ll need to use REAL butter for gourmet flavor. If you want “pretty” butter you can use various shape butter molds as well.
Bacon Herb Butter
Bacon herb butter is excellent on veggies such as corn, potatoes, red beets, tomato halves, zucchini, green beans.
1 teaspoon Oregano
1/4 teaspoon Black Pepper
8 strips crisp crumbled bacon
1 cup butter
Cinnamon Honey Butter
Excellent on Grilled or Steamed Veggies, Bread & Rolls of all kinds, waffles, pancakes, french toast, etc
1 tsp Cinnamon
2 Tbs. Honey
1/2 c. butter
Citrus Dill Butter
Excellent on Grilled or Steamed Veggies, grilled or poached fish, etc.
1 tablespoon finely chopped green onion
1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed
Grated peel of 1/2 lemon
1/8 teaspoon White pepper
1/3 cup butter
Chipotle Lime Butter
Excellent on Grilled or Steamed Veggies, fish, chicken, etc
2 1/2 tsp. lime juice
2 Tbs. chipotles in adobo sauce
2 TBS minced Garlic
1 cup butter
Cranberry Butter
Excellent on thick slices of quick bread, toasted biscuits, toast, waffles, pancakes, fish, or chicken
1/3 cup fresh cranberries
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup butter
1 Tbsp orange zest
Fig Butter
Imparts delightful flavor on grilled or steamed veggies, quick breads, toast, waffles, pancakes, biscuits, toast
1/4 cup fig preserves
1/2 cup butter
Garlic Herb Butter
This savory option is perfect on grilled or steamed Veggies, steaks, chicken, fish, and breads of all kinds.
2 cloves garlic
2 Tbsp fresh parsley
2 Tbsp fresh chives
1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup butter
Ginger Pecan Butter
Excellent on slices of quick breads, biscuits, toast, waffles, pancakes, breads, fish or chicken.
1/2 cup Pecans; finely ground
2 tablespoons Ground crystallized ginger
1 teaspoon Brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon Allspice
3/4 cup butter
Maple Butter
A delicious spread that is wonderful for steamed veggies, breakfast dishes such as warm muffins, pancakes, waffles, quick breads, and more.
1/2 cup Real Maple Syrup
1 cup Real butter
Mustard Butter
Excellent on Ham, pork, cauliflower, broiled salmon and seafood, lentils, lima beans, hard-cooked eggs, greens, and sandwiches.
1 tablespoon Dry Mustard
1 cup butter
Pear Butter Spread
Excellent on Grilled or Steamed Veggies or Chicken or Fish, Bread of all kinds
2 Tbs Pear Preserves
1/2 tsp Fresh Rosemary
1/2 cup butter
Roasted Red Pepper Butter
2 Tbs chopped roasted red pepper (drain off liquid)
1 green onion, thinly chopped
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
Spicy Chipotle Pepper Butter
Excellent on Grilled or Steamed Veggies, Chicken, fish, and meats
1 Chipotle Pepper in Adobo Sauce
1/4 tsp Chipotle Pepper Seasoning
1/2 cup Butter
Sun- Dried Tomato Butter
1 minced clove garlic
1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. minced sun-dried tomatoes, drained oil packed
1 small sun-dried tomato, chopped
1/4 cup chopped, fresh parsley
1/2 cup butter
Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter
This close copycat of a restaurant flavor adds tremendous flavor to dinner rolls and biscuits.
1 cup butter, room temp
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/3 teaspoon corn syrup
More Compound Butter Recipes
Strawberry Butter Spread
Raspberry Butter Spread
Cranberry Butter Spread
Whipped Honey Butter Spread
Compound Butter Recipes shared by our Members
What are YOUR Favorite flavors of butter? Feel free to share them below!
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all of these are wonderful, but i’m looking for a spreadable butter copycat. we tried land o lakes spreadable and we really like it. much better than the veg.oil spreads.
they mixed in canola oil to make it spreadable. does anyone know what the proportions would be without me trying and ruining several sticks of butter? i was thinking using my kitchenaid mixer to whip it up.
Hi, the formula I use is 2 sticks real butter, 1/2 cup canola oil, 1/2 cup cold water.
Mix the softened butter first for about 1 min. Slowly add oil on low speed, when somewhat mixed go to high speed for about 2 1/2 min, the butter will turn white. Slowly mix in the water on low and then go to high for about 2 1/2 min.
Put in fridge to harden back up. Take it out about 5 min before you need it to soften it up a little. It stretches 2 sticks of butter into about 3 1/2.
I make a “healthier” spreadable butter by combining 1 C butter, softened; 1/2 C OLIVE oil; and 1/2 C COLD water… spreads easily
i no longer use land o lakes since i discovered that their cattle feed is almost exclusively gmo based…
i now spend just a little more and buy imported euro butter (preferably irish as it tastes so good!). i’ve tried making butter spreadable and personally had more luck, at less cost, using a teaspoon of good olive oil per stick. my personal preference is to leave the butter as is and put it in the microwave in maybe four or five three seconds bursts…works for me…
my favorite flavors are
rosemary & marjoram
basil & mint
lavendar & cardamom
i make my own butter using cream from raw milk. simply shake a 2 quart jar until it begins forming the ball of butter, dump the buttermilk into a container for future use and then add the herbs, shaking until the butter takes on the right consistency.
can believe the timberlodge butter is not on here…. my family loves this stuff.
1 lb butter
3/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
1 tb ground chervil
1 tb garlic powder
I’ve never heard of this! But I’m going to try it; it sounds like something I’m going to have in my fridge as a permanent feature 🙂
wonderful recipes! thank you!
awesome and i will be trying the recipe from sandman for the spreadable butter!
thank you for all the butters! i’ve got them saved.
the timberlodge butter seems so simple as a garlic butter, it makes me shake my head that i’d not thought of it. for some reason, my taste buds have taken a real objection to chervil, so i think i’d use dried chives, unless i were freezing the butter. then i’d probably use chopped chives from the garden.
thanks again for all the recipes!
anne
adding things to butter to make it spreadable can stretch it, too. if that isn’t an issue for you, i store my butter on the counter in a butter bell. it is always spreadable and fresh.
i’m going to have to try some of these flavored butters, though, especially the bacon one. that is going to go over very well in my household!
Do you use stick butter to make the cinnamon honey butter or buy spreadable butter in a tub?
All of the recipes in our post ALWAYS use REAL Butter, NEVER margarine or spreads which we do not consider edible or safe for consumption.