Food and Recipes Entertaining Ideas & Tips 14 Flavored Butter Recipes That Make Everything Better Dress up dinner with these festive flavored butter creations. By Alana Al-Hatlani Alana Al-Hatlani Alana Al-Hatlani is an Assistant Food Editor at Southern Living. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on January 16, 2024 Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Shell Royster It's no secret that butter makes everything better. Mix butter with a few ingredients, and you're really upping your biscuit game—does it get more Southern than that? Sweet, savory, or a combination of the two, adding flavored butter to your recipes brings drastically delicious results. Whatever combination of butter, spices, and flavors you use, we know you’ll find plenty of reasons to reach for your butter bell. Sauté veggies in lemony garlic butter, or slather sweet honey butter over your dinner rolls. Dress up dinnertime with these festive flavored butter creations. What's The Difference Between Butter And Margarine? 01 of 14 Cowboy Butter Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox Keep this compound butter on hand to use in place of regular butter as a spread, a dip, or a topper. A mix of herbs, spices, garlic, lemon zest, and mustard makes an impact on steaks, potatoes, bread, or sandwiches. Get The Recipe 02 of 14 Herb Butter (Air Fryer Steak) Photography and Styling: Caitlin Bensel This Air Fryer Steak gets a boost from a pat of herb butter. Flavored with parsley, rosemary, garlic, and lemon zest, this butter complements your favorite steak dinner, but we know you’ll find other things to smear it on. Get The Recipe 03 of 14 Lemony Garlic Butter (Grilled Royal Reds) Photo Credit: Jennifer Causey; Prop Styling: Lindsey Lower; Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer This lemon-butter combination is a good match for any seafood dinner. It uses lemon zest and lemon juice for heightened flavor. Get The Recipe 04 of 14 Garlic Butter (Garlic Bread) Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox This garlic-butter recipe makes a mean garlic bread. It includes a good amount of Parmesan cheese. Leave it out if you want a more basic garlic butter. Get The Recipe 05 of 14 Honey Butter (Raspberry-Almond Muffins) Victor Protasio; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis These fruity muffins are even better with a smear of honey butter over top, but the goodness doesn't have to stop there. Use honey butter on muffins, pancakes, biscuits, or sweet potatoes. This recipe also has several variations, including berry, orange-vanilla, and chai honey butters. We bet you’ll find plenty of things to spread them on. Get The Recipe 06 of 14 Hot Honey Butter Jennifer Davick Turn popular hot honey into a dreamy butter that will spice up your biscuits. It’s equally good on cornbread, chicken and waffles, or even to make chicken wings. Use more hot sauce if you want higher heat. Get The Recipe 07 of 14 Whipped Jalapeno Butter (Cracklin' Cornbread) Morgan Hunt Glaze, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Shell Royster Created as a topper for cracklin’ cornbread, this recipe for Whipped Jalapeno Butter is perfect for adding some heat to corn on the cob, potatoes, and other veggies. A blend of hot honey and chopped jalapeno bring sweet heat that you’ll want to slather on just about everything. Get The Recipe 08 of 14 Herb Butter (Grilled Clambake Foil Packets) Linda Pugliese; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Anna Hampton Seasoned with Old Bay, fresh herbs, and lemon zest, a batch of this butter mixture will take your clambake to a new level. Top simple seafood foil packets with a hearty helping of the butter mixture, and grab some bread to mop up the buttery sauce while you eat. Get The Recipe 09 of 14 Charred Scallion-Lime Butter (Grilled Chicken and Corn) Johnny Autry; Prop and Food Styling: Charlotte L. Autry Process herbs, green onions, and lime juice with butter for a spread that’s full of zest. Use it to baste meats, top potatoes, or to spread on warm corn-on-the-cob. Get The Recipe 10 of 14 Goat Cheese-Garlic Butter Photo: Iain Bagwell Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter; 1/2 (4-oz.) goat cheese log, softened; 4 roasted garlic cloves; and 1/4 tsp. cracked pepper. 11 of 14 Honey Butter Photo: Iain Bagwell Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 Tbsp. honey, and 1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon. 12 of 14 Mustard-Chive Butter Photo: Iain Bagwell Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter, 4 tsp. spicy brown mustard, and 1 Tbsp. finely chopped fresh chives. 13 of 14 Lemon-Herb Butter Photo: Iain Bagwell Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter, 2 tsp. lemon zest, 2 tsp. finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, and 1/2 tsp. finely chopped thyme. 14 of 14 Pecan-Brown Sugar Butter Photo: Iain Bagwell Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter, 2 Tbsp. finely chopped toasted pecans, and 1 Tbsp. light brown sugar. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit