Artificial Food Coloring Free Honey Butter
Store-bought flavored butters and spreads can be surprisingly tricky — many contain added colorings or dyes that have no business being near your toast. This whipped honey butter keeps things beautifully simple: just real butter, golden honey, and a pinch of flaky sea salt. The result is a silky, lightly sweet spread that tastes far more luxurious than the three ingredients suggest. Beating the butter until pale and fluffy before adding the honey is the small step that makes a big difference in texture, giving you something cloud-like rather than dense. It's equally at home melting over a warm biscuit, swirled onto pancakes, or spread thick on a crusty slice of sourdough. Roll it into a log, tuck it in the fridge, and you'll have an elegant, dye-free condiment ready to go whenever you need it.
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8 servings
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 tbsp honey
- ¼ tsp flaky sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Place the softened butter in a mixing bowl and beat with a hand mixer or stand mixer on medium speed for 1–2 minutes, until pale and fluffy.
- 2
Add the honey and flaky sea salt, then beat on medium-low speed for another 1 minute, until fully combined and smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl once.
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