Whipped Cranberry Orange Butter

This easy whipped cranberry orange butter can be served alongside your favorite sourdough bread, pancakes or muffins. It can also be made into compound butter or given as a festive gift in a jar.

It's the perfect butter to make and stash in the freezer ahead of the festive season.

Ingredients

• Butter - I've used salted butter, but you can use unsalted if you prefer. I love using my own homemade butter to create this flavored butter.
  
• Dried Cranberries - I've used finely chopped dried cranberries. I don't recommend using fresh or frozen cranberries for this recipe (save those for this delicious cranberry orange jam).
  
• Orange Zest - I've used the zest of 2 large oranges. My kids love it when we make this butter as they get to drink the juice of the leftover oranges.
  
• Honey - I love using raw honey in this recipe (and if you look at the ingredient photo you can see there is still some wax in my honey). But use whatever you have on hand. If you don't have honey, maple syrup works well too.
  
• Salt - just a pinch to cut through the sweetness. If you are using salted butter, you can leave this out if you prefer.

How to Make Whipped Cranberry Orange Butter

There is literally nothing to making this whipped cranberry orange butter. I recommend using a stand mixer with the whisk attachment. This will give you light colored, super light and fluffy whipped butter.

If you have a food processor, this can also be used and the bonus here is that then you don't have to chop the cranberries before adding them.

Add softened butter, chopped dried cranberries, orange zest, honey and salt to your stand mixer and whip until light and fluffy and all ingredients combined.

Use a spatula to remove the whipped butter from the bowl and transfer to a jar or airtight container.

Serving Suggestions

There are so many ways you can use this whipped cranberry orange butter! It literally tastes like Christmas! Here are some of the ways I love using it over the festive season:

• It's delicious next to a stack of sourdough discard pancakes or sourdough pumpkin waffles.
  
• My kids love spreading it on toasted slices of sourdough bread made in a loaf pan.
  
• Pair it with a loaf of cranberry and orange sourdough bread or batch of sourdough cornbread muffins for a lovely homemade sourdough Christmas gift.
  
• Another lovely way to gift this whipped butter is to make a trio of butters in small jars and present them in a basket with a loaf of sourdough bread. I love giving whipped herb and garlic butter and honey cinnamon butter alongside this whipped cranberry orange butter.

Shelf Life + Storage

This whipped orange and cranberry butter will keep in the fridge for around one month. I usually let it sit on the counter overnight if we are going to use it the next day.

It can be frozen for up to 3 months. I freeze in small portions so we only need to thaw what we need and none goes to waste.

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