This delicious easy Strawberry Butter Recipe is soft and fluffy. Spread it on toast, bagels, English muffins, fresh hot biscuits, banana bread, muffins, and so much more! It's made with 5 simple ingredients and ripe fresh strawberries. It comes together quickly and is an easy way to elevate breakfast, brunch, snacks, and desserts.
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If you're a fan of our whipped honey butter, you're going to love our whipped strawberry butter, it's on a whole new level! This delicious spread elevates pretty much everything, with its luscious creamy texture, beautiful pink color, and juicy and sweet ripe strawberries.
We love to slather this soft butter on an English muffin, these sweet cream pancakes, this sourdough French toast, and this brioche French toast casserole.
Oooh, we're thinking about how good it would taste on these honey cornbread muffins too! Honestly? The uses are endless, and you're going to enjoy this all spring and summer long!
Looking for more butter recipes? Try our popular cowboy butter dipping sauce, this roasted garlic butter, and our leek butter too!
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❤️Why we love this recipe
- Made with 5 simple ingredients. You only need a handful of basic ingredients that you probably already have on hand to make this delicious spread. Anything you don't have at home you can get at the grocery store.
- Ready in about 10 minutes. Even if you include the prep time to wash and cut up strawberries, you only need about 10 minutes of total time to make this delicious spread come to life! Grab a hand mixer (or a stand mixer with a whisk attachment) to bring this stuff together quickly.
- Elevates so many things! This is an easy way to impress guests if you're having them over or bringing this to a brunch. It looks, sounds, and tastes fancy yet is so simple to make. Serve it with some artisan bread for an extra special treat!
🍓Ingredients
Here are the ingredients we used for this recipe. You can find more information for substitutions below.
- Butter. Use European-style butter if possible for lots of flavor! It has to be softened butter, so you will want to leave it out for at least an hour or two before beginning. We also like to use salted butter for this recipe to add just the right amount of salt. If you only have unsalted butter, that's totally fine, and you can just add a bit of kosher salt on your own. You may also enjoy making your own homemade butter with our helpful guide!
- Strawberries. Juicy, ripe fresh strawberries. Make sure they're room temperature, or else they will just cause your butter to seize up when they get added if they are too cold.
- Milk. Room temperature. You may or may not need it. It's not 100% necessary, but it helps make the butter extra smooth and fluffy.
- Vanilla. This really brings the whole strawberry shortcake flavor together. We used vanilla bean paste but of course, vanilla extract works too.
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✨Substitutions
Here are a few suggestions on additional flavors to try, or simple variations to this recipe.
- Use frozen strawberries. If you don't have fresh berries, that's okay! You can thaw frozen strawberries. Just be sure to squeeze out the excess water or the butter will become too soupy.
- Use strawberry jam. You can use strawberry preserves or jam instead of fresh fruit if you'd like as well. Adding a drizzle of this homemade strawberry simple syrup would also add some more intense strawberry flavor and a bit of extra sweetness. If you go this route, just be sure to scale back on the amount of powdered sugar, or it will probably be too sweet.
- Freeze-dried strawberries. Yet another route you can take is using pulverized freeze-dried strawberries to enhance the strawberry flavor. This will also intensify the pink/red color!
- No salted butter. No worries, just add a bit of kosher salt to taste and use unsalted butter instead.
✨Variations
- Creamier. If you don't have milk on hand, feel free to just use half and half or heavy cream instead.
- Use different sweeteners. Make strawberry honey butter by swapping honey for powdered sugar, like in our whipped honey butter recipe! You can also make strawberry maple butter, by using maple syrup instead of powdered sugar.
- Add lemon. Strawberry and lemon are a perfect combo. Add a bit of fresh lemon juice and lemon zest for a delicious citrusy flavor.
- Use other berries. Feel free to swap out strawberries for your favorite berry, and make raspberry butter, blueberry butter, or any variation you like. Try our blueberry butter!
- Low carb/keto friendly. Simply swap the regular confectioners' sugar for your favorite sugar free version.
- Vegan or dairy free. Swap the regular butter for your favorite vegan butter, and be sure to use a milk substitute instead of regular dairy milk.
🔪Prep work
- Let the butter sit out for at least an hour, preferably even a few hours so that it's nice and soft.
- Wash and dry the strawberries very well, and make sure they have a chance to sit out for a while as well. We don't want the strawberries to be cold, or else they will cause the mixture to seize up.
- Be sure to let the milk sit out at room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour.
- After the strawberries are at room temperature, cut the tops off. If you don't have a food processor, you will want to cut them up into small pieces. If you will be using a food processor, just quarter them or cut them in half.
- Measure the powdered sugar and vanilla if desired.
📋Instructions
Add the softened butter and powdered sugar to a large mixing bowl.
Start out by beating on low speed with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, then increase to medium speed until combined, smooth, and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. (Image 1)
Use a food processor or a sharp knife to cut the strawberries into small pieces. (Image 2)
⭑Pro Tip: We love this cordless small food processor, immersion blender, whisk, and blender combo! It's affordable and quite the workhorse!
Add the vanilla bean paste or extract and the strawberries to the butter and powdered sugar mixture. (Image 3)
Mix until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes, slowly adding in milk as needed (or if desired) to make the mixture fluffier. (Image 4)
⭑Pro tip: If the strawberries or milk are too cold, it will cause the mixture to seize up. If this happens, place the entire mixture in the microwave for one or two 10-second increments just to get it warm enough to come together again. There may be small pools of melted butter, but it will all whip up once you get mixing again.
Now all that's left to do is enjoy!
✨Tips & tricks
- Make sure the butter is really soft. For fluffy, spreadable butter you'll want the butter to be very soft! Not melted, just very soft.
- Use room-temperature strawberries and milk! This is really important. If your strawberries or milk or too cold, this will cause the butter to seize up and it won't be nice and fluffy. If it does seize up, it can be fixed, however! Just pop the bowl into the microwave for about 10-20 seconds in increments, then continue mixing until soft.
- Sweeten to taste. Start with less powdered sugar, and add more to taste if desired.
- Use salted butter. If possible, using salted butter will really round out the flavor of this butter. If you only have unsalted butter, don't worry! Yo can just use a pinch of salt.
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💭Frequently Asked Questions
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge and use within 4 days. You can also wrap the butter tightly in plastic wrap and store it in the freezer for up to 6 months. Thaw it overnight in the fridge.
Your strawberries or milk were probably too cold. It's okay though! All you have to do is pop the bowl (if it's microwave-safe) into the microwave for 10-20 seconds in short spurts to heat the mixture up a little bit.
There may be small pools of melted butter, but it will come together when you continue to mix it with a hand mixer. We don't want to melt the butter completely, we just want to soften it a bit.
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📖 Recipe
Strawberry Butter
Equipment
- hand mixer (or stand mixer with the whisk attachment)
- food processer (not 100% necessary but will speed up the process!)
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter softened (2 sticks)
- 3-4 tablespoons powdered sugar to taste (about 21-28g)
- 16 large strawberries room temperature, with the tops removed and quartered or chopped into small pieces (roughly 250-300g)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste (can sub vanilla extract 1:1)
- 1-2 tablespoons whole milk room temperature, as needed
Instructions
- Add the softened butter and powdered sugar to a large mixing bowl. Start out by beating on low speed with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, then increase to medium speed until combined, smooth, and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.1 cup salted butter, 3-4 tablespoons powdered sugar
- Use a food processor or a sharp knife to cut the strawberries into small pieces.16 large strawberries
- Add the vanilla bean paste or extract and the strawberries to the butter and powdered sugar mixture. Mix until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes, slowly adding in milk as needed (or if desired) to make the mixture fluffier.2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste, 1-2 tablespoons whole milk
- Now just serve and enjoy! It's great on toast, pancakes, English muffins, and so much more.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge and use within 4 days. You can also wrap the butter tightly in plastic wrap and store it in the freezer for up to 6 months. Thaw it overnight in the fridge.
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Notes
- Make sure the butter is really soft. For fluffy, spreadable butter you'll want the butter to be very soft! Not melted, just very soft.
- Use room-temperature strawberries and milk! This is really important. If your strawberries or milk or too cold, this will cause the butter to seize up and it won't be nice and fluffy. If it does seize up, it can be fixed, however! Just pop the bowl into the microwave for about 10-20 seconds in increments, then continue mixing until soft.
- Sweeten to taste. Start with less powdered sugar, and add more to taste if desired.
- Use salted butter. If possible, using salted butter will really round out the flavor of this butter. If you only have unsalted butter, don't worry! Yo can just use a pinch of salt.
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