19+ Flavored Butters

Butter, my love. One of the best condiments on its own is also one of the easiest ways to elevate any meal or occasion. Make one of my simple flavored butters, also known as compound butter or finishing butter, today!

Make your own butter super fast in the blender (trust me, it is SO good!). From there get fancy with things and make some fabulous flavors!

Pair with bread, put on a baked potato, top a steak, melt on sautéed veggies, slather onto a sandwich or use them to be maker your own butter board creation. Even stir it into risotto or a pastina recipe.

Use a cookie dough scoop to make butter balls or a pastry bag with fancy tips and pipe it out into stars or other shapes that can pair with any dinner recipe. Place on bread plates before your meal and your guests will be super surprised!

Flavored Butter elevates any meal to the next level!


 

Here is a list of my favorite compound butters from my own blog and my foodie friends. Have fun creating your own masterpiece!

BEST Flavored Butters

blue bowl of texas roadhouse butter

Copycat Texas Roadhouse Butter (Cinnamon Honey Butter)

Texas Roadhouse Butter, whipped with cinnamon, honey and nutmeg, is the perfect pairing for Texas Roadhouse Rolls, biscuits and more!
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Sun Dried Tomato Butter is a flavored butter recipe made with tart sundried tomatoes, roasted garlic and parsley. The perfect butter for Garlic Bread! www.savoryexperiments.com

Sun Dried Tomato Butter Recipe

Sun Dried Tomato Butter is a flavored butter recipe made with tart sundried tomatoes, roasted garlic and parsley. The perfect butter for Garlic Bread!
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sliced of flavored butter on a wood cutting board

Maitre d’Hotel Butter Recipe

Maitre d'Hotel Butter is a simple compound butter recipe that elevates food with basic flavors: lemon, parsley and mustard. Use it as a finishing butter on meats and vegetables for added pizzazz.
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overhead shot of butter on bread

Chile Lime Butter Recipe

Chile Lime Butter is a flavored butter using cilantro, lime and chile powder. Perfect for spicing up a Mexican meal, baked potato or sauteed vegetables.
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bowl of dijon lemon butter

Lemon Dijon Butter Recipe

Dijon Lemon Butter is a compound butter recipe that can easily be transformed into a Dijon Lemon Butter sauce and served on chicken, salmon and more! Zesty, fresh citrus flavor! 
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Overhead view of jar of molasses butter

Molasses Butter with a Zing

Molasses Butter is the blend of butter, molasses and one secret ingredient that will never guess until see the recipe! Served best on fresh zucchini bread and biscuits!
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overhead shot of knife in truffle butter

Truffle Butter Recipe

This Homemade Black Truffle Butter is so easy to make! Only 3 ingredients and a few minutes needed. You’ll never get it at the store again!
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Scoop of Brandy Garlic Butter on a spoon

Garlic Brandy Butter Recipe

Garlic Brandy Butter is the best homemade garlic butter ever! Easy to make and SO yummy on garlic butter steak! 
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saucepan of homemade pumpkin butter

How to Make Pumpkin Butter

Pumpkin Butter is an easy spread that can be used on everything from pancakes to dinner rolls and everything between! Make extra to give as presents, hostess gifts or party favors during the fall months.
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small plate with sage butter

Orange Sage Butter

You won't believe how easy it is once you've learned how to make flavored butter! This Orange Sage Butter recipe is full of flavor and tastes great on almost everything.
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A close up of roll with butter

Ranch Butter

Ranch butter is easy homemade seasoned butter perfect for taking any dish using regular butter to the next level. Baked potatoes, pasta, seafood & poultry!
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Compound Butter Recipes

Knife dipping into Italian compound butter

Italian Compound Butter

This Italian compound butter is packed with garlic, fresh basil, and sun-dried tomatoes for a flavor-packed, fresh spin on butter!
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Homemade cinnamon butter in a jar

Homemade Cinnamon Butter

This Homemade Cinnamon Butter is bound to be a holiday table staple. Made in minutes in your stand mixer or blender, you can whip up this delicious, creamy, and spicy butter that’s perfect for spreading on dinner rolls, toast, and sweet potatoes!
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Honey walnut butter in a white bowl

Honey Walnut Butter

This Honey Walnut Butter is perfect for topping pancakes to give them an extra kick of u0022sweet!u0022
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Homemade jalapeno lime butter sliced

Homemade Jalapeno Lime Butter

An easy, spreadable, adaptable recipe this Homemade Jalapeno Lime Butter whips up in minutes and compliments everything!
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Roasted Garlic Rosemary butter on a small plate

Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Compound Butter

This Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Compound Butter is perfect for spreading on bread, topping steaks and it’s great when it’s used on chicken before cooking!
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Roll of pecan honey butter cut in half

Pecan Honey Butter

Add a little special touch to fall and holiday biscuits and breads with this easy-to-make Pecan-Honey Butter. Whip it up with just three simple ingredients, and spread the deliciousness!
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Blueberry Lavender butter in a glass bowl

Blueberry Lavender Compound Butter

This homemade Blueberry Lavender Compound Butter is filled with fresh blueberries, lavender and honey and made from scratch in a stand mixer!
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Orange Honey Butter in a purple bowl

Orange Honey Butter

This Orange Honey Butter is perfect on cornbread or alongside chili, but also makes a great edible gift!
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Hatch chile agave compound butter in a red bowl

Hatch Chile-Agave Butter

You are going to want this Hatch Chile-Agave Butter Recipe at the ready! Its sweet-spicy flavor adds delicious flavor to toast, pasta, chicken, fish, steak, corn, and the list goes on!
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pat of cowboy butter on top of a steak

Cowboy Butter

This viral Cowboy Butter recipe can be served over a sizzling hot steak, melted for a succulent dipping sauce, or slathered on bread!
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If you liked these compound butter recipes, check out these other easy butter recipes:

Collage of Flavored Butters
Jessica Formicola in her ktichen

About the Author

Chef Jessica Anne Formicola

Jessica the mom, wife and chef behind Savory Experiments. You might see her on the Emmy- nominated TV show Plate It! or on bookshelves as a cookbook author. Jessica is a Le Cordon Bleu certified recipe developer and regularly contributed to Parade, Better Homes & Gardens, The Daily Meal, Mashed and more!

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  1. I have been looking for a simple homemade recipe to gift to neighbors. These recipes look great! Buying a few ramekins to fill with a couple of these butters. A little plastic wrap tied with a ribbon and I’ll be set. Thank you!

  2. I have just found the wonderful world of flavored butter. Hey, when you suddenly realize AGE, your priorities AND thrills change!!!!! I am a retired chef and can no longer stand in the kitchen. Seeing what other home chefs are doing is fun.

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