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 combine the strawberries and whipped butter if you don’t have a food processor. Add the pulverized strawberries to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or use a handheld mixer) to whip the mixture on low speed just until incorporated, OR simply use a silicon spatula to mix the ingredients together by hand.

How to Make Strawberry Honey Butter

If you want to make powdered strawberry sugar, substitute powdered sugar for granulated sugar in the recipe. Or, like in the above photo, you can add some of the regular granulated strawberry sugar to the desired amount of powdered sugar and whisk to combine.

• 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature (113g)
• 1/2 cup freeze-dried strawberries, pulverized or finely crushed (10g)
• 1 tablespoon raw honey, or more or less to taste (15g)