Honey butter is so easy to whip up and it is such a treat with dinner rolls, melted over warm banana bread or spread on pumpkin bread! We add a touch of cinnamon for a whipped cinnamon honey butter.
You can make this days ahead so it is perfect for holiday entertaining. It feels fancy but making flavored butter is easier than you think and takes less than 5 minutes. Try it over a loaf of home-baked Crusty French Bread – yum!
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Honey Butter Recipe:
What is Honey Butter? It is essentially softened butter that is whipped and sweetened with honey. Other flavorings can be added, like a dash of vanilla extract and cinnamon. The cinnamon is optional but we love it during the cooler Autumn and winter months. This has the simplest ingredients:
- Unsalted butter
- Honey
- Vanilla extract
- Cinnamon (optional)
How to Make Honey Butter:
This flavored butter is a 4-minute recipe and doesn’t get any easier. All you need is a mixing bowl and an electric hand mixer.
- Beat butter until fluffy (3 minutes)
- Beat in honey, vanilla extract, and cinnamon (if using).
What to Serve with Sweet Butter:
Honey butter elevates breakfast dishes and bread. This is very similar to the Texas Roadhouse cinnamon butter that is served with dinner rolls that everyone loves.
This sweet butter is an easy way to dress up breakfast. Imagine biting through a generous layer of honey-flavored butter and into the softest pumpkin bread (recipe coming soon). It’s almost like a frosting. We especially love to serve it on:
- Pancakes
- Crepes
- French Toast
- Waffles
- Banana Bread
- Apple Bread
- Toasted English muffins
How to Store Honey Butter:
This keeps well at room temperature (70˚F or cooler) and covered for up to 2 days. To make it last longer, cover and refrigerate sweet butter up to 2 weeks. You can even freeze it up to 2 months. Bring to room temperature before serving.
Flavored Butter Mix-In Ideas:
You can change up the flavor of honey butter with different spices, extracts, and even fruit-flavored jam. Let me know if you try any new flavor combinations that you love. I’m also so curious about what you love to serve it with.
- Pumpkin spice (to taste)
- Salt (just a pinch goes a long way)
- Fresh diced strawberries or raspberries
- Seedless raspberry jam
Try this: make a variety of sweet-flavored butter and serve them next to this gorgeous Wreath Bread. Everyone will be so impressed. Flavored butter is such a treat for entertaining and is perfect for the holiday table.
More Breakfast Recipes You Will Love:
- Blueberry Muffins with a lemon glaze
- Steel Cut Oats – a family favorite
- Breakfast Burritos – freezer friendly
- Breakfast Egg Muffins – easy peasy
Honey Butter Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, (8 Tbsp), room temperature
- 1/4 cup honey, or to taste
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon, optional
Instructions
- Start by whipping the butter in a medium bowl with an electric hand mixer for 3 minutes until it's fluffy.
- Add honey, vanilla extract and cinnamon (if using) and beat another minute until incorporated.
Nutrition Per Serving
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Can I use salted butter for this recipe?
That’s all I have.
Hi there! You can, but it will alter the taste just a bit due to the salt.
Paired this with your Milk Bread Rolls recipe from your new cookbook per our 18 year old son’s request for Christmas dinner(he gifted me your cookbook for Christmas!) – AMAZING as expected! He’s always been an exceptionally picky eater – but any recipe of yours is an absolute hit with him! This is a keeper for sure!
Aaaw that’s super nice! Glad that you received my cookbook as a gift. Hope you’ll enjoy all of the recipes that you will try!
Can I make this with homemade butter made from heavy cream how would I go about doing that?
Hi Shayla, I honestly cannot guarantee that since I haven’t tested that to advise. I hope it works fine if you do an experiment!
What piping tip did you use? I’ll be making this for Christmas morning pancakes!
Hi K, I used am open star piping tip to pipe the butter for the main photo.
I’v been looking for a Honey butter recipe since the olden days you used to buy it in a Cardboard container This sound like it for sure (giving away my age haha) Thanks can wait to try it Yummy
You’re welcome, I hope this becomes your new go-to recipe!
I would love to make your flavored butter, but how do I get the recipe?
Hi Craig, this is the recipe (flavored butter)
Family loved it. Made this recipe tonight with some of our locally produced Tupelo honey. Yummy 😋
Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing that with us, Michelle.