My homemade honey butter is super simple to make and tastes amazing! I love to spread it onto toast, muffins, scones, and pancakes. My family gets so excited when we have this honey butter in the house. It’s so good!
I’m pretty much convinced that this easy honey butter makes just about everything taste better. It’s ridiculously easy to make and lasts a month in the fridge (although my family finishes it way before then).
Try my honey apple butter or maple pumpkin butter for more recipes like this. Both are super delicious! I also love serving this honey butter alongside homemade English muffins or fluffy biscuits.
Key Ingredients
- Honey: I use pure honey for homemade honey butter and use a brand my family already loves. I love supporting local honey producers, and highly recommend checking to see if you have any around you. If you don’t have honey available, try maple syrup!
- Butter: I love European-style salted butter like Kerrygold or Plugra for this recipe. You can use unsalted, but consider adding some salt to balance the sweetness of the honey.
- Cinnamon: I love a little spice from ground cinnamon. It’s optional but so good! More suggestions for spicing this up are shared below.
How to Make Honey Butter
Homemade honey butter is super easy to make with a hand-held electric mixer or stand mixer. Simply beat room-temperature butter with honey and cinnamon. You can do this by hand, but make sure your butter is truly softened. Keep in mind that the butter won’t be as light and fluffy (it will still be delicious, though).
The honey, butter, and cinnamon combo is my go-to recipe, but here are a few variations you might enjoy:
- Make orange butter and add one to two teaspoons of freshly grated orange zest.
- Make cinnamon butter and add an extra 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, or use pumpkin pie spice.
- Make it a little more exciting and add a pinch of fresh ground black pepper.
- Make it spicy and use hot honey or add a bit of cayenne pepper (1/8 teaspoon is a good starting point).
- Make maple butter by substituting the honey with 1/4 cup pure maple syrup.
Use honey butter anytime you use butter. Spread it onto bread, toast, English muffins, biscuits, and scones, or serve it with pancakes. I’m also partial to adding it to my morning oatmeal.
You can even cook with it. I love tossing it with roasted vegetables or adding it to baked sweet potatoes. Consider using it with minced garlic for honey butter shrimp, or chicken!
Perfect Honey Butter
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My family is always happy to see homemade honey butter in the house! It’s super easy to make and tastes so good. Add honey butter to toast, oatmeal, pancakes, biscuits, and more!
You Will Need
1 cup (226g) salted butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup (85g) pure honey, plus more as needed
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
1Beat room temperature butter with a hand or stand mixer until it is whipped and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes.
2Pour 1/4 cup of the honey and add the cinnamon. Beat on medium speed until mixed. Taste, and then adjust with more honey as needed. Add a 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt if you have used unsalted butter.
3Store in an airtight container in the fridge for about 1 month or freeze for up to 3 months.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Butter: We love to use European-style butter for this like Kerrygold or Plugra.
- Softening butter: You will need softened, room-temperature butter. Leave the butter out at room temperature for about one hour. Cut the butter into small cubes and cover it with a bowl to speed up the process. If your kitchen is cold, run hot water over the bowl and briefly wipe it dry before covering the butter.
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates. We used 1/4 cup of honey in the calculations.
