Butters Worthy of Your Homemade Bread

Add a special touch to tonight’s dinner with these deliciously sweetened and spiced butter recipes. Each recipe comes with a suggested homemade bread recipe so you can really treat your family.

Honey-Thyme Butter

Laced with honey and fresh thyme, this butter is perfect for either sweet or savory dishes. It’s amazing on bread and rolls fresh out of the oven but equally as good on a stack of blueberry pancakes. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Easy Strawberry Butter

After picking strawberries for the first time, I developed this fruity, spreadable butter. Try making other fruit spreads using raspberries or blackberries, or a seedless jam like apricot, my favorite. —Julie Herrera-Lemler, Rochester, Minnesota

Minted Butter

I prefer to serve this mint butter with scones, but it goes well with other breads, too. When I make the butter, it’s only with mint fresh from our garden.—Sherry Smeltzer, Osage Beach, Missouri.

Cinnamon-Orange Honey Butter

This is such a delicious butter spread for afternoon tea or with a dessert bread. Just mix it up and get ready for the compliments. —Mary Bates, Cleveland, Ohio

Herbed Tragon Butter

This is a great butter to serve at your next dinner party. It will taste so delicious on dinner rolls.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin.

Oaxaca Twist Butter

This Mexican-inspired compound butter elevates fresh-baked bread, croissants or muffins to new heights. The combination of raspberries with dark chocolate, toasted pecans and just a touch of hot chili makes your tastebuds dance every time. —Nicole Filizetti, Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Fresh Herb Butter

I love impressing dinner guests with flavored butter. I mix up a big batch and freeze it. Then when company comes, this special spread is ready to go. Cut them in different shapes for a little fun. —Pam Duncan, Summers, Arkansas

Cranberry Honey Butter

If you are traveling to a friend’s or loved one’s for the holidays, bring them something even better than a bottle of wine—this easy to whip up treat! —Arisa Cupp, Sherwood, Oregon

Garlic Lemon Butter

This tangy flavored butter offers a nice change from plain butter and gives a refreshing new taste to an ear of corn. When I serve this on the side during fresh corn season, the same question always gets asked—”What’s in the butter that makes it so delicious?” —Margie Wampler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Honey Almond Butter

To me, nothing tastes better than a warm homemade muffin right from the oven and topped with this yummy flavored butter churned with manual butter churner. It’s also wonderful on toast, quick breads and biscuits. —Pat Hockett, Ocala, Florida.

Cranberry Butter

I’ve been making these muffins and this cranberry butter for years, and I have never met anyone who didn’t like them. I’ll usually buy several bags of fresh cranberries when they’re available and freeze them to use throughout the year. I’ve also discovered that powdered buttermilk works well. —Jane Yunker, Rochester, New York

Parsley Butter

Making a flavored butter is very simple and will add a lot of flavor to your food. It will impress your guests and they will be asking for the recipe.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin.This butter is wonderful on warm bread or biscuits,” recommends Corky Huffsmith of Indio, California. “Be sure to use real butter and margarine—the low-fat products have a higher water content that doesn’t give the same results.”

Herbed Basil Butter

Add a wonderful basil flavor to your corn on the cob with this delicious butter spread. It is so easy and will taste great. —Emily Chaney, Penobscot, Maine