Get ready to wow your taste buds with this easy strawberry butter recipe! This simple homemade spread is perfect for breakfast or brunch, adding a burst of sweet, fruity flavor to your favorite breads, biscuits, and pancakes.
Neiman Marcus serves it with big popovers in the Zodiac Room in the downtown Dallas store but you can have it anytime - it's so easy!
Table of Contents
- 🗝️ Key takeaways: why this recipe is your new favorite
- 🧾 Gather your ingredients: what you'll need
- 📖 Make it your own: yummy variations
- 🔪 Step-by-step guide: instructions for success
- 🍴Must have tools: essential equipment
- 🥫 How to store strawberry butter
- Marye's Tip o' the day
- 💭 Insider tips: things to know
- 👩🍳 Let's answer those questions: FAQs
- 📚 More Southern comfort: related recipes you'll love
- 📞 Wrapping it up: the last word
- 📖 Recipe
- ✍🏻 A note from Marye...
- Strawberry Butter
- 💬 Comments
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🗝️ Key takeaways: why this recipe is your new favorite
- I love how creamy, sweet, and bursting with fresh strawberry flavor this is. It's a simple addition that makes any breakfast feel special.
- When to serve it: Perfect for brunch, breakfast, or as a sweet addition to your afternoon vanilla scone.
This easy strawberry butter recipe always turns my breakfast table into a country B&B! It's easy to make but adds a sweet touch to pancakes, waffles, French toast, and hot biscuits. I love it on toasted multigrain bread.
Add some cozy, country charm to your breakfast table with this easy, delicious spread!
🧾 Gather your ingredients: what you'll need
I like to add a little strawberry jam because it just makes the flavor more intense. You really only need the berries, sugar, and unsalted butter to make this recipe.
This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
📖 Make it your own: yummy variations
- Honey strawberry butter: Replace sugar with honey for a different kind of sweetness.
- Citrus twist: Add a bit of orange zest for a citrusy kick.
- Spiced strawberry butter: Mix in a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg for a warm, spiced flavor.
- Other fruit: Any soft fruit will work - blueberries, blackberries, raspberries (mmm raspberry butter), peaches...
🔪 Step-by-step guide: instructions for success
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the green recipe card at the bottom of the page.
- Clean, stem, and slice strawberries.
- Use the food processor, immersion blender, or hand mixer to puree the berries.
- Add the lime, vanilla, strawberry jam, and sugar. Stir in until well blended.
- Add the room-temperature butter and whip at high speed of an electric mixer until smooth. * After I did these images I found that whipping the butter and sugar together then mixing in the berries works MUCH better.
🤫 Marye's secret for zhuzhing it up -
Add a splash of balsamic vinegar for a surprising depth of flavor that complements the sweetness of the strawberries!
zhuzh: verb. To make something more interesting or attractive
🍴Must have tools: essential equipment
- food processor or immersion blender
- electric mixer
- mixing bowls
- measuring cups and spoons
- paring knife
🥫 How to store strawberry butter
Store strawberry butter in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. A jar with a tight-fitting lid is ideal.
You can also freeze it for up to 3 months for longer storage.
You can also form it into a butter log. When it is chilled spoon it onto waxed paper and then form it into a firm roll. Twist the ends of the waxed paper firmly and refrigerate.
Once the roll is well chilled you can just slice off rounds as you need them.
Marye's Tip o' the day
Be careful. The strawberry butter will pick up refrigerator or freezer odors if the fridge isn't clean. Don't put it in the freezer with fish!
💭 Insider tips: things to know
- Use fresh, ripe strawberries for the best flavor.
- Make sure your butter is at room temperature before mixing for a smooth, creamy texture.
- 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!
- Don't blend the berries into mush - pulse to make them finely chopped.
- Adjust the amount of confectioner's sugar to your own tastes.
- Frozen fruit does not work well - it's too watery.
👩🍳 Let's answer those questions: FAQs
Have other questions? Ask me in the comments!
I have had this happen, too. It works best if you stir the berries into the butter and sugar after it's whipped. It seems to be less likely to separate BUT if it does separate it's STILL delicious - just not quite as pretty.
I don 't recommend it - I don't think it works as well because it is watery.
📚 More Southern comfort: related recipes you'll love
📞 Wrapping it up: the last word
Homemade whipped 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.
Be sure to grab a batch of summer ripe strawberries and make this soon! It's not as good with out of season berries.
If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need.
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📖 Recipe
Homemade Strawberry Butter
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- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- ½ cup strawberries, pulsed in a food processor to a puree
- ¼ cup powdered sugar, more as desired
- 1 tablespoon lime zest, optional
- 1 tablespoon strawberry jam, optional - adds more flavor
- ½ teaspoon vanilla, optional
Instructions
- Whip the softened butter and powdered sugar together.
- Mix in the jam, lime, and vanilla if you are adding these ingredients.
- Fold in the strawberry puree.
- Refrigerate in an airtight container until firm. Or, for slices, you can roll it into a log shape and wrap tightly in wax paper twisting the ends to seal.
- Use as desired.
Notes
- 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.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.
✍🏻 A note from Marye...
I know y'all don't always like the stories bloggers tell so when I have one I try to put it at the very bottom so you can read or skip as you like.
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!
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First published June 8, 2018. Last updated June 28, 2024 for editorial improvements.
Erica Mcfadgon says
Great Spread