Best Strawberry Butter (w/Strawberry Honey Butter Option + Video)

What is Strawberry Butter?

For starters, it's one of the best thing you'll ever taste! This easy strawberry butter recipe is a staple in our house for brunch and breakfast-for-dinner. You only need two ingredients to make it: unsweetened freeze-dried strawberries and unsalted butter.

Injecting natural strawberry flavor into recipes without adding unnecessary moisture (juice or liquids) or using unnatural extracts, etc. can be tricky because strawberries are full of water.

This is why the secret to making the best strawberry butter is to use 100% freeze-dried strawberries which gives you the best of both worlds flavor-wise and texture-wise.

Why You'll Love This Strawberry Butter Recipe

• You only need two ingredients for homemade strawberry butter
• It's full of pure all-natural strawberry flavor
• Makes the BEST strawberry honey butter recipe
• It's easy to shape and slice once chilled
• It makes the best homemade pancake topper ever
• It pairs perfectly with strawberry scones or buttermilk biscuits
• Easy to meal prep and refrigerate or freeze it for brunch parties
• It's better (and cheaper) than any strawberry compound butter you can buy
• It's an all-natural strawberry butter without preservatives, unnatural ingredients, or added sugar

Plus, you never have to re-whip this strawberry butter (because we don't add any liquid mixtures to it like fresh or frozen strawberries that leak juice.  

The Best Strawberries to Use For Strawberry Butter

It can be tough to get the pure essence of strawberry flavor packed into a recipe like this strawberry butter without adding extra liquid (or using commercial strawberry extracts that are often artificially flavored and may taste as much).

This is why freeze-dried strawberries make the best strawberry compound butter in my opinion. You get all the tart naturally sweet pure strawberry flavor without losing or diluting any of the strawberry flavor or adding too much liquid to the mixture which can change the texture.

In a pinch, I've used some of this 30-minute strawberry jam recipe to make strawberry butter, but we prefer the flavor and texture when we using freeze-dried strawberries.

Strawberry Butter Ingredients

Sure you can buy whipped strawberry butter online or from niche food shops, but why would you when you can make your own (and way more of it) for way less? It takes 5 minutes to make strawberry butter and it uses just 2 ingredients (3 ingredients if you want to make strawberry honey butter instead). 

Unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter for making any fruit butter because added salt doesn't make sense to me or taste as good as unsalted butter in fruit butter recipes.

100% natural unsweetened freeze-dried strawberries: While you can use sweetened freeze-dried strawberries to make strawberry butter I do not because I like to be able to control the amount of sugar I decide to put or not put into strawberry butter.

(OPTIONAL) Honey: Honey is an optional ingredient you may want to add to strawberry butter to make a naturally sweet strawberry honey butter which is delicious!

How to Make Strawberry Butter Step-by-Step

This recipe for strawberry butter takes just about 1 minute to make in a food processor, but there are plenty of ways to make it even if you don't have a food processor (check the notes in the recipe card to see how). Here's an overview for how to make it, but you can find the full instructions in the recipe card.

Step 1. Pulverize the freeze-dried strawberries in the bowl of a food processor or using a Vitamix dry carafe.

Step 2. Mix the butter and freeze-dried strawberries together in the bowl of a food processor, or in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and blend and whip the mixture until fluffy

Step 3. (Optional) Add up to 1 tablespoon of honey to the strawberry butter to make the best strawberry honey butter you've ever had!

Time to enjoy this easy strawberry butter recipe on pancakes, toast, cream scones, English muffins, and waffles, or use it to make strawberry cinnamon rolls!

How to Make Strawberry Butter Video

Watch this quick video to show you how to make strawberry butter (especially if you've got kids who are making the recipe)!

How to Make Strawberry Butter Without a Mixer or Food Processor

The easiest way to turn crunchy Freeze-dried strawberries into to a fine powder is to process them for 30 seconds or more in a food processor. However, if you don't own a food processor, you can try these DIY solutions to crush freeze-dried fruit and make any flavor fruit butter recipes you want:

• Use a Vitamix dry blade carafe to turn the freeze-dried fruit into a fine powder and then combine it with the butter.
• Use a rolling pin and a freezer bag to crush the freeze-dried strawberries until you reach the desired consistency.
• Use a spice grinder to crush the strawberries which is effective, but takes longer to get the amount you need because it doesn't hold many strawberries.

How to Make Strawberry Honey Butter

If you like your strawberry butter a little on the sweet side, use this strawberry honey butter recipe which just adds a touch of golden raw honey (any honey will do) to give it a perfect natural sweetness that only improves the flavor of this whipped fruit butter.

• 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature (113g)
• ½ cup freeze-dried strawberries, pulverized or finely crushed (10g)
• 1 tablespoon raw honey, or more or less to taste (15g)

Looking for More Fruit Butter Recipes?

You can make any flavor of whipped berry butter by simply using the same ratio of butter to freeze-dried fruit. You can make everything from a cherry butter recipe to blackberry butter recipe by simply switching out the freeze-dried fruit you use. Here are a few of our favorite whipped fruit butters recipes:

• Blueberry butter
• Raspberry butter
• Peach butter
• Cherry butter
• Mango butter
• Blackberry butter

How to Use Strawberry Butter?

There are seemingly endless uses for whipped strawberry butter, but here are a few of our favorites.

• as a fluffy pancake topper
• used to make the best strawberry cinnamon toast of your life
• strawberry butter for waffles
• slathered inside Classic French Crêpes along with some crunchy sugar
• smeared onto homemade strawberry scones or buttermilk biscuits
• Use it to make strawberry buttercream
• used to smear onto peanut butter and strawberry sandwiches before you add the peanut butter and strawberry jam
• make a strawberry butter sauce by melting strawberry butter and drizzle it over french toast or use it in bread pudding

How To Store Strawberry Butter (or Strawberry Honey Butter)

Store strawberry butter in a glass jar or other airtight container in the refrigerator for one week or in the freezer for several months. I like to make smaller batches so it stays fresher for longer. When flavored sugars have been stored for a while, you may need to stir them with a fork to break up the mixture before using them in your baked goods.

Strawberry Butter Pro-tip:  You can make heart-shaped or any shaped strawberry butter by placing the butter into a silicone mold, freezing them for an hour, or until frozen solid. Then pop them out of the mold and refrigerate on a platter, or freeze the molded strawberry butter in an airtight freezer-safe container.

Looking For More Strawberry Recipes?

If you're looking for a few easy strawberry recipes, here are a few of our favorite (family-approved) sweet treats! We have everything from frozen strawberry recipes to recipes featuring fresh strawberries and freeze-dried strawberries.