Fresh, sweet, and irresistibly creamy, this homemade Strawberry Butter is one of the easiest ways to make breakfast or brunch feel extra special. This pretty pink spread is delicious on everything from toast and biscuits to pancakes and waffles. One taste and you'll want to keep a batch in the fridge at all times.
Strawberry Butter Recipe Essentials
- 🍽️ Course: Condiment, Spread
- ⏱️ Cooking Time: 10 minutes prep, no cook time
- 🍴 Servings: About 16
- 🧄 Flavor Profile: Sweet, creamy, buttery, fruity, lightly vanilla
- 🍚 Best Served With: Biscuits, toast, pancakes, waffles, muffins, scones, cornbread
- 🧊 Make Ahead?: Yes, this stores well in the refrigerator or freezer.
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This strawberry butter is perfect for holiday brunches, baby showers, breakfast boards, or adding a fruity twist to everyday mornings. Whether you like it smooth and creamy or with little bursts of strawberry throughout, this homemade spread tastes so much better than anything store-bought.
This was inspired by my bacon butter on this site, and pairs well with this rhubarb bread and my grandma's white bread.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Quick, beautiful, and easy: This strawberry butter comes together in minutes with simple ingredients and adds a gorgeous pop of sweet berry flavor to any breakfast or brunch spread.
- Perfect for serving or gifting: Spread it on biscuits, toast, pancakes, or waffles, or package it as a charming homemade food gift for holidays and special occasions.
- Customizable and make-ahead friendly: Make it smooth or chunky, adjust the sweetness to taste, and keep it chilled until you're ready to serve.
Ingredients
This easy strawberry butter recipe uses fresh strawberries to create a delicious creamy spread.
- Unsalted butter: Gives the spread its rich, creamy base and lets you control the salt level.
- Powdered sugar: Sweetens the butter and blends smoothly without a gritty texture.
- Vanilla extract: Adds warm flavor that makes the strawberries taste even sweeter.
- Pinch of salt: Balances the sweetness and brings out the buttery berry flavor.
- Fresh strawberries: Add natural fruit flavor, pretty color, and juicy sweetness.
See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.
Variations
- Honey Strawberry Butter: Replace the powdered sugar with 2 to 3 tablespoons honey for a naturally sweet, softer strawberry butter with warm floral flavor.
- Maple Strawberry Butter: Replace the powdered sugar with 1 ½ to 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup for a softer strawberry butter with cozy maple flavor perfect for pancakes, waffles, and biscuits.
- Strawberry Cream Cheese Butter: Reduce butter to ½ cup and add 4 ounces softened cream cheese, ½ to ¾ cup powdered sugar with vanilla and salt for a richer, tangier strawberry spread perfect for bagels, muffins, toast, and brunch boards.
- Mixed Berry Butter: Use ½ cup strawberries with ½ cup raspberries or ½ cup blueberries for a berry blend or a triple berry blend using ⅓ cup strawberries, ⅓ cup raspberries and ⅓ cup blueberries.
How to Make Strawberry Butter
This strawberry butter is simple to make in just a few steps. You can keep it chunky, lightly blended, or completely smooth depending on how you like your fruit butter.
Place the softened butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and salt in a medium bowl and blend by hand, electric mixer or food processor.
Add the strawberries and mix.
Taste and adjust sweetness if needed by adding additional powdered sugar.
Transfer the strawberry butter to a small serving dish or shape it into a log using parchment paper.
Strawberry Butter Expert Tips
- Dry the strawberries well: Extra moisture can make the butter too soft, so pat berries dry after washing.
- Use ripe strawberries and chop them small: Sweet ripe berries give the best flavor, and smaller pieces blend more evenly for easier spreading.
- Taste before chilling: Adjust the sweetness while the butter is soft, since cold butter is much harder to mix.
- Don't overprocess: Blend just until combined to keep the butter creamy instead of loose or watery.
- Chill before serving: Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to firm up, then let sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes before serving for easy spreading.
- Customize the texture: Stir for chunky strawberry pieces, beat for lightly blended butter, or process until smooth.
If you love recipes like this strawberry butter recipe, you may also enjoy pecan honey butter or maple and easy steak butter.
Storage Directions
Strawberry butter stores well, making it a great make-ahead recipe for breakfast, brunch, parties, or holidays.
Refrigerator: Store strawberry butter in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Let it soften slightly at room temperature before serving.
Freezer: Wrap tightly in plastic wrap or parchment paper, then place in a freezer-safe bag or container for up to 2 months.
Reheat: Do not reheat strawberry butter. Let it soften naturally at room temperature before spreading.
Make Ahead: Prepare and refrigerate strawberry butter 1 to 2 days in advance.
Serving Suggestions
- Serve with breakfast: Add a spoonful over top of banana nut pancakes, banana french toast casserole, and waffles for a sweet berry topping with strawberry syrup for a brunch-worthy treat.
- Use on toast: Let it melt into toasted bread, sourdough, or English muffins instead of plain butter.
- Pair with muffins: Serve with blueberry muffin recipe, lemon, banana, vanilla or rhubarb muffins for extra flavor.
- Serve on a brunch board: Add it to a breakfast board with biscuits, strawberry scones, banana cornbread, fruit and pastries.
- Use with quick breads: Spread it over chocolate chip banana bread, lemon loaf, pound cake, or strawberry bread.
Strawberry Butter Recipe FAQs
Fresh strawberries work best because they have a better texture. If using frozen strawberries, thaw completely, drain well, and pat dry before adding them to the butter to try and avoid watery butter.
Strawberry butter can become watery if the berries are too wet or very juicy. Pat the strawberries dry before mixing, and avoid adding extra liquid to the recipe.
Powdered sugar works best because it blends smoothly into the butter. Honey and maple syrup also work well. Granulated sugar can make the spread taste gritty.
Yes, reduce the powdered sugar slightly and taste as you go. The sweetness will also depend on how ripe your strawberries are.
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Strawberry Butter
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened, or salted butter and omit salt
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- ½ cup fresh strawberries finely diced
Instructions
- Place the softened butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and salt in a medium bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy.
- Add the strawberries and combine using one of these methods:
- ● Stir: If you want strawberries to maintain their separation from butter base.
- ● Beat with Electric Mixer: If you want some of the strawberries to blend, but want some to maintain their shape and texture.
- ● Transfer to a food processor or blender: If you want the strawberries well incorporated into the butter base. (This is the method used in photos)
- Taste and adjust sweetness if needed by adding additional powdered sugar.
- Transfer the strawberry butter to a small serving dish or shape it into a log using parchment paper.
- Refrigerate strawberry butter for at least 30 minutes if in bowl or 1-2 hours if rolled into log before serving so it firms up and the flavors meld beautifully.
Notes
- Dry the strawberries well: Extra moisture can make the butter too soft, so pat berries dry after washing.
- Use ripe strawberries and chop them small: Sweet ripe berries give the best flavor, and smaller pieces blend more evenly for easier spreading.
- Taste before chilling: Adjust the sweetness while the butter is soft, since cold butter is much harder to mix.
- Don't overprocess: Blend just until combined to keep the butter creamy instead of loose or watery.
- Chill before serving: Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to firm up, then let sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes before serving for easy spreading.
- Customize the texture: Stir for chunky strawberry pieces, beat for lightly blended butter, or process until smooth.
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