This Blueberry Butter recipe features a lightly sweet and luxuriously creamy-fluffy compound butter, made with an easy homemade fresh blueberry sauce. It’s a pretty whipped berry butter that is perfect for topping pancakes, waffles, toast, muffins, and more!
Fresh, sweet-tart blueberries are an irresistible summertime favorite. If you’ve ever picked your own, you know just how extraordinarily wonderful they can be! This Blueberry Butter recipe features butter that’s whipped into creamy-fluffy awesomeness, then a simple fresh blueberry sauce is folded in. It’s an easy fruit butter that’s light, yet decadent. Enjoy it with buttermilk pancakes, classic homemade waffles, biscuits, or my grandma’s blueberry muffins!
Why We Adore This Blueberry Butter Recipe
Our family loves fresh berries, plus we like pretty much anything we can dip or spread. Ha! So it’s really no wonder why this whipped berry butter disappears so fast around here!
- So creamy-fluffy. The butter gets whipped for a full 5 minutes, which incorporates air to give a light, fluffy texture that’s so dang fun. Our daughters have jokingly called this “blueberry butter frosting”. 😋
- Easy. Just make a simple fresh blueberry sauce, whip some butter ’til fluffy, and combine!
- Super versatile. You can use this butter in so many ways. Scroll down to the section “Ways to Serve It” for lots of ideas.
- Simple yet special. From the vibrant purple-blue hue to the amazing fresh blueberry flavor, this lightly sweet butter is far from ordinary. It’s a simple way to add a little something special to your table, to elevate even a simple stack of pancakes into something memorable.
What You’ll Need
This is basically a blueberry compound butter. A compound butter simply means that butter is combined with other flavors. I’ve outlined what you’ll need below. Scroll down to the printable recipe card at the end of this post for the exact ingredient amounts.
FOR THE BLUEBERRY SAUCE
- Blueberries – Use the freshest, most flavorful blueberries for best results. If you’re in a pinch, you can use frozen berries.
- Sugar – A little extra sugar makes this sauce just sweet enough.
- Water – This helps to loosen up the sauce consistency.
- Cornstarch – This is added to thicken the sauce a bit.
- Vanilla – Use pure vanilla extract for the best flavor.
For the Blueberry Butter
- Milk – I use whole milk for richness, but any type of milk is fine.
- Butter – This recipe calls for unsalted butter. If you use salted butter, just eliminate the added salt. It’s important to bring it to room temperature before starting.
- Powdered sugar – This type of sugar ensures an extra light and fluffy texture, without any little sugar granules.
- Blueberry sauce – My easy homemade blueberry sauce flavors this butter perfectly.
- Vanilla – A touch of pure vanilla extract adds lovely flavor.
- Salt – A pinch of salt heightens all the flavors.
How To Make Whipped Blueberry Butter
Here’s a quick look at how to make this easy recipe. Find the detailed instructions in the recipe card lower down.
- Cook the blueberries. Combine blueberries, water, and sugar and bring to a low boil.
- Add cornstarch. Make a cornstarch slurry, then add it to the blueberries.
- Thicken. Simmer the blueberry mixture until thickened to your liking.
- Cool. When the sauce coats the back of a spoon, remove it from the heat and let it cool.
- Whip the butter. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and milk on low speed to combine. Then beat it for 5 minutes at high speed, until light and fluffy.
- Add blueberry sauce. Beat in the cooled blueberry sauce, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla.
Tips + VariationS
For the fluffiest, most luxurious whipped blueberry butter, follow these simple tips:
- Soften the butter. The butter should be at room temperature before you begin. If it’s still cold, it will have chunks and not beat up nice and fluffy.
- Use COOLED blueberry sauce. This is an important one! If you add the blueberry sauce while it’s still warm, it will melt the butter instead of mixing with it. You can even prepare the sauce in advance and keep it in the fridge until you’re ready to make the butter.
- Serve at room temperature. For the fluffiest blueberry butter that’s easy to spread, serve it at room temperature. If you’ve stored it in the fridge or freezer, be sure to let it sit at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes to soften.
- Include lemon. For additional brightness, sprinkle in some lemon zest when you add the blueberry sauce.
- Make another flavor. You can use this method to make other flavors of butter. For example, swap in my raspberry sauce and make raspberry butter. Or my strawberry sauce, for strawberry butter. Just know that both of these sauces have a thinner consistency, so you’ll want to add less of it to the whipped butter.
Ways To Serve It
For a pretty presentation, I like to use various-sized scoops to create fun little mounds of blueberry butter.
This butter is super versatile. Let me count thy ways!
- Toast. So simple, yet SO GOOD. Spread this whippy butter over your favorite toasted bread or English muffins.
- Pancakes. Top a fluffy stack of pancakes with fluffy blueberry butter, like my buttermilk pancakes or cottage cheese pancakes.
- Waffles. Try it on blueberry waffles – amazing! Or Belgian waffles or buttermilk waffles.
- Muffins. Spread fluffy blueberry butter over my favorite blueberry muffins, or over banana bread muffins for a fruity flavor contrast.
- Popovers. Whether you make traditional popovers or sourdough popovers, this is one of my favorite ways to enjoy blueberry butter.
- Oatmeal. Stir some into baked oatmeal for added flavor and texture that’s fruity and rich.
- Scones. Whipped butter is delightful on scones, like my wild blueberry scones.
Proper Storage
Refrigerate or freeze your berry butter to enjoy another time. Here’s how to do it:
- Fridge – Place the blueberry butter in an airtight container and store it in the fridge for up to one week.
- Freezer – Transfer the butter to an airtight, freezer-safe container, and press a piece of plastic wrap to the surface of the butter to help avoid freezer burn before placing on the top of the container. You can also use a cookie scoop to make individual portions of blueberry butter. Place in the freezer and store for up to two months.
- To Serve – Whipped blueberry butter has the best creamy, fluffy texture when enjoyed at room temperature. So remove the butter from the refrigerator or freezer 20 to 30 minutes before eating.
More Blueberry Recipes To Try
Blueberry Butter
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup prepared blueberry sauce, cooled
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- ¼ cup milk
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 pinch Morton kosher salt
Instructions
- First, prepare the blueberry sauce. Set aside 1/3 cup to let cool for this blueberry butter.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and milk on low speed just to incorporate. Then turn speed up to medium-high and beat for 5 minutes, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl a couple times, until light and fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar and salt, and beat again on medium-high speed for 1 more minute.
- Add cooled blueberry sauce and vanilla, and beat on low just until evenly combined.
- Enjoy immediately, for the creamiest, fluffiest texture. Or refrigerate, to enjoy later. Once chilled, the blueberry butter will firm up, so be sure to remove it from the refrigerator 20 to 30 minutes to let it soften before enjoying it.
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This post was originally published in 2016, then updated in 2021 and 2024. You can also find my recipe over at The Pioneer Woman!
Great recipe!
tastes great
Hey girl this looks so yummy!