Our craving for popovers last week brought back another craving: honey butter. As kids, this was the must-have accompaniment to popovers in our house. It's so simple to make and yet so completely addictive that it's a wonder we didn't beg for it on everything!
Honey Butter: Perfect with Popovers (And A Lot More!)
All we did to make honey butter was to let a quarter stick of butter soften in a small bowl on the counter. Then we squeezed some honey on top, mixed the two together, tasted, squeezed on some more, mixed, and repeated until the perfect honey-to-butter ratio was achieved. The result is a little bowl of soft silky honey-flavored butter.
The advantage of mixing the honey and butter together instead of just adding them separately is that the butter melts evenly, carrying the honey to every nook and cranny. It's also significantly less sticky and slightly more refined for dinner!
It was probably my mother who came up with honey butter, looking for a way to let us have honey with our popovers without making a huge mess at the dinner table. (Who wanted the honey to begin with? Probably us!)
Then again, we did a quick Google search for "honey butter" and found pages and pages of fellow lovers of honey butter, so maybe our experience wasn't quite as unique as we thought! Other people's versions include whipping the butter in a blender to make it fluffy, adding a dash of cinnamon or vanilla, or even hot chili powder for an adult version.
Do you make honey butter? What do you have it with?
Related: Try This: Roasted Green Pepper Butter
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Whenever I make honey butter it is so much better if you make it totally from scratch. Some heavy cream and a hand mixer (or a jar if you're very very patient) then add the honey. Exquisite.
view jamina1's profile
I was also surprised how much better this is than honey and butter separately.---I originally had it with some sort of semolina cake (like cornbread) that was flavored with orange zest.
view sally599's profile
How funny, honey butter is exactly what I made to go with the last-week's-post-inspired popovers I made last weeken. Yum yum.
view Brooklynnina's profile
Made the popovers for my grandkids last week and I don't know why I'd never tried something so easy and delicious. They always want me to make crepes and it is pretty much the same ingredients.
view Kate (NC)'s profile
My grandma introduced me to honey butter. She is not a gourmet like my Mom-Mom, but she gets the simple things perfect (like blackberry cobbler).
view Emily G.'s profile
honey butter is my favorite! i love it on homemade bread the best!
my mom and i took dinner to a family one time who was sick, and in the arizona heat, it melted a little in the car, so it was runnier than normal. we just assumed that everyone knew what honey butter was, but it turns out that they thought it was homemade salad dressing...the next day they commented on how interesting it was. haha! we joke about having honey butter on our salad now.
view katiecupcake's profile
Never had it- must try it!! I have had maple butter though and that is delicious!
view bkk's profile
I usually serve honey butter with hush puppies. I had this at a seafood restaurant in Delaware and became hooked, yum!
view Hafr's profile
Tommy Bahamas was my first introduction to honey butter. They mix it with nutmeg and cinnamon and serve it with hot bread. Heavenly!
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