Honey Butter Recipe
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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Natasha Kravchuk
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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.
O.M.G. you’ve single handedly changed the way I cook! I now have changed all my recipes to yours! Your Recipe are much easier and tastes 100 times better! This Honey Cinnamon Butter is an Awesome addition to my collection!
Thank you so much Natasha, I’m a hit at work and in the neighborhood!!!
Aww, that’s the best! Thank you so much for sharing that with me, Craig. I’m all smiles
How do you get your butter to look like petals and not just a clump of butter
Hi Lisa, We piped it for the main photo! You’re welcome to pipe it also when serving. We usually just spread it.
Hi..is the butter at room temperature or right out of the fridge? Thanks.
Hi Lorinner, I like to serve it at room temperature but I do refrigerate if I”m not using it within a day or two and let it soften before serving.
I made this today and it is Delicious!!! Best honey butter recipe ever! I did add a splash of bourbon barrel maple syrup instead of vanilla. Always great recipes….Thank you!!
You’re welcome! I’m so happy you enjoyed it, Cathy!
Amazing! Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
I normally have a problem with the butter clumping up and seperating. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? I am going to try your recipe this Thanksgiving. Can’t wait. Thank you.
The butter should be room temperature and whipped until fluffy. If your butter is too cold, this could be the cause.
Love the honey butter, but I want to fancy it up for a fancy dinner. Can I pipe it into dishes?
Hi Heather! Depending on the dish I bet that could work! If you experiment I would love to know what you liked!
I made the banana raised walnut bread and made the honey butter to put on it and let me just say that its so amazing that I will be making much more and making loads for my family and friends for the holidays thank you soooo much for these delightful recipes
You’re welcome, Shirley! I’m so happy you enjoyed this recipe!
Natasha, do you have a good zucchini bread recipe? Thank you!
Hi Mary, here is our (oldie but goodie), Zucchini bread recipe.
Hi Natasha, what kind of bread would you recommend to make for this butter? It looks really good!
Hi Sabrina! I hope you love this recipe! Here are our favorite bread recipes! Also, one of our readers wrote in trying this with corn bread.
I made this honey butter and it is so good! I shared it with my family and they thought that it was delicious! I will absolutely make it again next time. Thank you for sharing this pin! Have a good day!
You’re welcome, Ava! Thank you for that lovely comment! I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe!
Perfect on bakes sweet potatoes too! Yum!
Thank you for your comments, Chris!
Excellent recipe Natashas congratulations, I always try to eat healthy and look for the best foods and recipes, I would like to know if these butters thehoneyblossom if you have tried and if you recommend them? Greetings.
Hi Susana, I haven’t tried those.
DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! Honey Butter
Having with my yeast rolls tomorrow at Thanksgiving.
Isn’t it the best, Vicki! I hope you love this recipe!
Hi! I’m just wondering how you achieved the whipped frosting-like effect for the main photo. Did you use a piping tube? Thanks so much!
Great question, Amy! We piped it for the main photo.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome!
Do you have a video showing How do you do that piping method I have never tried doing that and I would love to watch the demonstration first
Hi Lisa, I don’t have a video tutorial of that at this time. I used a piping tip to pipe the butter for the main photo.
Hey Natasha I’ve been coming to your site lately and it shows me this recipe that you updated last for the past month. I know you post it new ones saw on Instagram but it’s not showing me other new receipies that you post on your website. Wonder why
Hi Valery, I am working on getting to the bottom of why that is happening. Can you check the homepage now and let me know if that is still happening for you? Our most recent post currently is Roasted Sweet Potatoes and tomorrow (Friday) we are posting apple pie. Are you seeing the sweet potatoes?
Just now checked again and still is the honey butter not showing any new posts. Hope you can fix it I hate to miss your receipes Thanks for YouTube I watch your videos there !
Apparently everyone named Anna loves this butter, lol! I halved the recipe and just used softened butter rather than a mixer to see how we like it, but I have a feeling I’ll be making it again very soon.
Thank you so much for sharing that with me, Anna!
All your recipes are awesome..
.really worth making, just don’t have enough time…
I’m so glad you enjoyed our recipes!
This is so much better than regular butter!! The honey, cinnamon, & vanilla add so much! It’s great on so many things!
Isn’t it the best, Kristyn! Thank you for that awesome review!
I can tell this going to be a staple this fall in our house! It looks so simple to make and delicious!
That’s so great, Julie!
This honey butter is so easy to make but adds a ton of flavor! We served it with corn bread and it was PERFECTION! Can’t wait to make it again!!
I bet that is so delicious over Corn Bread!
This butter is delicious! Perfect on a toasted bagel!
Thank you so much for sharing that with us, Anna! I can almost taste it over a bagel.