Compound Butter Recipes and Homemade Butter From Scratch

On its own, butter is delicious. And when it’s used in cooking and baking, it sometimes seems that the more butter the better. One of the easiest ways to elevate butter in many recipes is to finish with a compound butter.

What is compound butter?

A compound butter (or beurre composé) is butter that’s mixed with sweet or savoury ingredients. The sky’s the limit when it comes to adding ingredients, but KitchenAid has developed three delicious compound butter recipes that you can make anytime. If you use a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer, your work will be cut in half.

Try the maple syrup and cinnamon butter, it’s exactly what you need on pancakes or toast. Or the garlic and herb butter – a classic garlic compound butter gets updated with flat leaf parsley and chives. The addition of fresh herbs creates a butter that’s not only prettier, but has a savoury flavour that’s more complex. Garlic Herb Butter makes delicious garlic bread, and is a good compound butter for steak. Finally, spread sun-dried tomato butter on hot-out-of-the-oven homemade focaccia bread.

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Compound Butter Recipes and How to Make Butter From Scratch Homemade butter is always rich and decadent. Adding delicious ingredients to butter, from herbs and garlic or cinnamon and maple syrup, create easy compound butter recipes that add flavour to anywhere you love butter. Keyword: butter, compound butter Total Time: 40m – KitchenAid® Stand Mixer, Whisk Accessory, Pouring Shield – KitchenAid Cordless Go Food Chopper – kitchen towel or plastic wrap – wire mesh strainer Homemade Butter – 2 cups heavy whipping cream room temperature – ½ tsp salt Cinnamon Maple Butter – ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature – 1 tsp ground cinnamon – 1 Tbsp maple syrup Garlic Herb Butter – ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature – 1 clove garlic – 2 Tbsp parsley leaves – 1 Tbsp chives Sundried Tomato Butter – ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature – 2 Tbsp sundried tomatoes in oil – 1 tsp dried oregano Homemade Butter 1) In the Stand Mixer bowl fitted with Whisk Accessory, add heavy whipping cream and salt. Secure Pouring Shield over bowl. Turn the mixer on to speed 1 and slowly increase to speed 10. Keep a towel or plastic wrap handy for splatters. 2) As the cream whips, initially whipped cream will form. Then it will gradually break down into clumps of yellowish fat separated from the white buttermilk. This should take 10-15 minutes. 3) When the butterfat has separated from the buttermilk, turn the mixer off and remove the pouring shield. Strain butter from buttermilk (save buttermilk for another baking purpose). 4) Return butter to Stand Mixer bowl and rinse with cold water. Strain and rinse butter with fresh cold water until water is clear. This process helps remove buttermilk to keep the homemade butter fresh. 5) Press butter into a glass container. Serve butter with fresh bread, pasta, or use in compound butter recipes. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Cinnamon Maple Butter 1) Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer. 2) In a clean bowl, add the homemade butter, cinnamon, and maple syrup. 3) Whip butter on speed 4 until ingredients are fully incorporated and mixture is fluffy, for 1-2 minutes 4) Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill. Garlic Herb Butter 1) Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer. 2) Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop garlic, parsley, and chives until finely minced. 3) Add homemade butter and minced garlic and herbs to clean the Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer. 4) Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes. 5) Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill. Sundried Tomato Butter 1) Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer. 2) Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop sun dried tomatoes and oregano until finely minced. 3) Add homemade butter and minced tomato mixture to the clean Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer. 4) Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes. 5) Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill. Pro Tips: To avoid splatters when making the homemade butter, cover the chute of the Pouring Shield and any gaps between the shield and bowl with plastic wrap. Use the best heavy whipping cream you can find for the highest fat yield and creamiest butter.  

Compound Butter Recipes and How to Make Butter From Scratch

Homemade butter is always rich and decadent. Adding delicious ingredients to butter, from herbs and garlic or cinnamon and maple syrup, create easy compound butter recipes that add flavour to anywhere you love butter.

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Total Time 40 minutes mins

Equipment

• KitchenAid® Stand Mixer, Whisk Accessory, Pouring Shield
• KitchenAid Cordless Go Food Chopper
• kitchen towel or plastic wrap
• wire mesh strainer

Ingredients

  

Homemade Butter

• 2 cups heavy whipping cream room temperature
• ½ tsp salt

Cinnamon Maple Butter

• ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 Tbsp maple syrup

Garlic Herb Butter

• ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 Tbsp parsley leaves
• 1 Tbsp chives

Sundried Tomato Butter

• ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
• 2 Tbsp sundried tomatoes in oil
• 1 tsp dried oregano

Instructions

 

Homemade Butter

• In the Stand Mixer bowl fitted with Whisk Accessory, add heavy whipping cream and salt. Secure Pouring Shield over bowl. Turn the mixer on to speed 1 and slowly increase to speed 10. Keep a towel or plastic wrap handy for splatters.
  
• As the cream whips, initially whipped cream will form. Then it will gradually break down into clumps of yellowish fat separated from the white buttermilk. This should take 10-15 minutes.
• When the butterfat has separated from the buttermilk, turn the mixer off and remove the pouring shield. Strain butter from buttermilk (save buttermilk for another baking purpose).
  
• Return butter to Stand Mixer bowl and rinse with cold water. Strain and rinse butter with fresh cold water until water is clear. This process helps remove buttermilk to keep the homemade butter fresh.
• Press butter into a glass container. Serve butter with fresh bread, pasta, or use in compound butter recipes. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Cinnamon Maple Butter

• Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
• In a clean bowl, add the homemade butter, cinnamon, and maple syrup.
• Whip butter on speed 4 until ingredients are fully incorporated and mixture is fluffy, for 1-2 minutes
• Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Garlic Herb Butter

• Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
• Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop garlic, parsley, and chives until finely minced.
• Add homemade butter and minced garlic and herbs to clean the Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer.
• Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes.
• Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Sundried Tomato Butter

• Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
• Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop sun dried tomatoes and oregano until finely minced.
  
• Add homemade butter and minced tomato mixture to the clean Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer.
• Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes.
• Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Notes

Pro Tips: To avoid splatters when making the homemade butter, cover the chute of the Pouring Shield and any gaps between the shield and bowl with plastic wrap. Use the best heavy whipping cream you can find for the highest fat yield and creamiest butter.

Keyword butter, compound butter