Homemade Strawberry Butter Like Neiman Marcus

Add some cozy, country charm to your breakfast table with this easy, homemade fruit spread!

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• ❤️ Why you'll love it
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 🥄 Equipment
• 🥫 Storage
• 💭 Tips
• 👩‍🍳 FAQs
• 📚 Related recipes
• 📞 The last word
• 📖 Recipe

❤️ Why you'll love it

• Done in less than 5 minutes
• Makes any breakfast a little cozier
• It's delicious

Homemade strawberry butter always turns my breakfast table into a country B&B! It's easy to make but adds a sweet touch to pancakes, waffles, and biscuits.

🧾 Ingredients

I like to add a little strawberry jam because it just makes the flavor more intense. You really only need the berries, sugar, and butter to make this recipe.

🔪 Instructions

1. Clean, stem, and slice strawberries.
2. Use the food processor, immersion blender, or hand mixer to puree the berries.
3. Add the lime, vanilla, strawberry jam, and sugar. Stir in until well blended.
4. Add the room temperature butter and whip until smooth. * After I did these images I found that whipping the butter and sugar together then mixing in the berries works MUCH better.
5. Refrigerate until firm, at least two hours - the flavor is better after a couple of hours.

🥄 Equipment

You'll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.

• Mini food processor
• Small mixing bowl
• Hand mixer or immersion blender
• Mixing cups and spoons

🥫 Storage

Store strawberry butter in an airtight container for up to a week in the refrigerator. You can freeze it for up to three months.

💭 Tips

Expert Tip: Be careful. The butter will pick up refrigerator or freezer odors if the fridge isn't clean. Don't put it in the freezer with fish!

• Have all the ingredients at room temperature - they'll blend better.
• Mix the butter and powdered sugar before you add the berries - it will be smoother than way and less likely to separate. I learned this the hard way!
• For the best flavor the strawberries should be good and ripe.
• Don't blend the berries into mush - pulse to make them finely chopped.
• Adjust the amount of confectioner's sugar to your own tastes.
• You can form the strawberry butter into logs and slice as needed.
• It will keep about a week in the refrigerator - longer in the freezer.
• Like any butter, this fruit butter will take on off flavors from refrigerator smells.
• Any soft fruit will work - blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches...
• Frozen fruit does not work well - it's too watery.

👩‍🍳 FAQs

Here are the questions I am most frequently asked about this recipe.

📚 Related recipes

Now that you've got strawberry butter you're going to need something to put it on, right?

• Easy Drop Biscuits are so simple to make - no kneading!
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• English Muffin Bread has all those craters that English muffins have but in an easy, no knead loaf.
• Angel Biscuits are a combination of a dinner roll and a biscuit. They are soft and light.
• Cornmeal Popovers are my favorite type. They come out of the oven with a thin crispy crust.
• Potato Rolls are so soft and pillowy - they are easy to make and full of old fashioned flavor.
• Croissants are easy to make with my quick method. Not quite the same as the originals but they don't take 8 hours either.
• Buttermilk Biscuits are a southern standard. These are light and buttery.

📞 The last word

Here's my experience...

Homemade strawberry butter is so quick and easy to make you'll want to enjoy it all season long! It's delicious melting into a pink puddle on a hot biscuit or smeared across popovers. This simple recipe is very similar to the iconic strawberry butter that Neiman Marcus has served with their popovers for decades.

Neiman Marcus in downtown Dallas is the original. It's sat in the same spot since it was built in 1914 to replace the old Neiman Marcus building which had burned down.

When I was a little girl in the 1960s my mother took me there to shop once in awhile but  birthdays were always an occasion for lunch at the Zodiac Room. White gloves, poufy dress, and shiny patent leather shoes with bright buckles - because back then you dressed up to shop.

Over the past few years my friend has been taking me to the Zodiac Room for my birthday and we are always excited about the billowy popovers served with sweet, whipped strawberry butter.

I think that my version is a touch better than their version but they totally have me beat with tuxedoed waiters and white linen tablecloths.

I hope that someday you'll get a chance to enjoy a lunch at Neiman's in downtown Dallas but until then make a batch of this fresh strawberry butter and enjoy!

Be sure to grab a batch of summer ripe strawberries and make this soon! It's not as good with out of season berries.

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If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Recipe

First published June 8, 2018. Last updated May 4, 2021 for better images and slight adjustments to the recipe to improve texture and flavor. A quick update to correct grammar/spelling mistakes was made on June 4, 2021.