Cranberry Butter
on Nov 10, 2017, Updated Oct 21, 2020
You will want to add this Cranberry Butter recipe to your Thanksgiving and Christmas menu. Enjoy it as a compound butter or as a whipped butter. It’s perfect on dinner rolls or even a bagel for morning breakfast.
Cranberry Butter
We love flavored butters. They make for a great addition to so many different breads, bagels, muffins, waffles and more. Since the holidays are just around the corner, we have been working on adding some new items to our Thanksgiving and Christmas menu. Yesterday, I shared our delicious Waldorf Salad. Oh and earlier in the week, The Best Sweet Potato Casserole.
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I knew we needed to think of a great holiday butter to add to our rolls. These past few years, we have been buying Kings Hawaiian dinner rolls. My hubby is seriously addicted to them. He loves the sweetness. He is very frugal but always pays extra for his favorite rolls.
I made this Cranberry Butter because I knew it would be perfect on his rolls and also on my morning bagels and toast. I made one log to be more like a compound butter and then I whipped a batch for dinner rolls.
The flavors in the butter were perfect. You gain quite a bit of orange from the orange juice and zest. The cranberry and orange go so well together. I planned to add this butter to sweet rolls. If you are using plain rolls, go ahead and add a bit of honey or powdered sugar to give it a bit of sweet.
We are definitely adding this butter to the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table. Hubby has already added it to his grilled turkey sandwich he made. He likes it that much, lol.
INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup Cranberries
1/2 cup Orange Juice
2 stick softened Butter
Zest of an Orange
DIRECTIONS
Cook cranberries and orange juice in medium saucepan until popped and tender (about 10 minutes).
Allow to cool completely.
Mix cranberry mixture into butter until well blended.
Transfer mixture to a jar OR form into log and wrap in parchment paper, twisting ends.
Do you have a favorite flavored butter that you make for the holidays?
Cranberry Butter
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Cranberries
- 1/2 cup Orange Juice
- 2 stick softened Butter
- Zest of an Orange
Instructions
- Cook cranberries and orange juice in medium saucepan until popped and tender (about 10 minutes).
- Allow to cool completely.
- Mix cranberry mixture into butter until well blended.
- Transfer mixture to a jar OR form into log and wrap in parchment paper, twisting ends.
I want to use this butter for a base for my butter board. what would be good toppings.
What can I substitute for orange juice? I’m allergic. Thanks!
Can you freeze this? Maybe in squares like pats of butter?
Looks great but it’s a lot. Thank Pat
What’s the Refrigerator life shelf on this
I found your recipe last year and made it for Christmas plus I made some and put in little mason jars with a ribbon and gave them away as gifts. I just made a batch this morning and going to make a couple batches to give away as gifts. Thank you for this recipe as it is the best one I’ve found with no added sugar. I put it on toast, roasted chicken, wild rice, roasted acorn squash. and pancakes! Yummy!
DO YOU DRAIN THE CRANBERRIES BEFORE ADDING TO BUTTER. ALSO, WHEN DO YOU ADD THE ORANGE ZEST?
I would probably add it when mixing everything together. That would be my guess.
Love this recipe!!!
I don’t see in the directions when to add the orange zest.
Can you add a little sudar if think its too tart?
How long will this store in the refrigerator?
Love this recipe! How do you make it whipped butter?
Hi MaryAnne! To make the butter whipped, you could just use a hand mixer to whip it up. Super easy and oh so tasty!
this cranberry butter sounds good for the holidays. How about even as a homemade gift? In maybe a canning jar as a gift?