Vanilla Bean Butter.
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Look! I made you vanilla butter for your morning muffin.
You can make vanilla butter too. Just smash a stick of butter with the contents of one vanilla bean. Then spread it on something fancy like warm maple bacon scones or hot blueberry muffins or steamy pancakes. Or even use it for cookies. It just may be the best invention ever.
Vanilla Bean Butter
makes 1/2 cup (can easily be doubled)
1 stick butter, softened
1 vanilla bean
Combine softened butter with the contents of one vanilla bean and mix. Easy! Can be stored in the refrigerator in a seal tight container or wrapped in plastic wrap.
Butter for life!
78 Comments on “Vanilla Bean Butter.”
Never have I heard of vanilla butter, but now I want nothing else than vanilla butter. That sounds fantastic!
Genious. Simply genious. It’s like having buttercream for breakfast (not that I ever do that)!
This sounds delicious! I make roasted garlic butter every once in a while but I never thought to do something sweet! You are amazing!
That is so simple!
Hmmm looks delicious and perfect timing for me to make a Royal Wedding Sunrise Brunch I am attending in 2 weeks!!
You want to know my favorite kind of butter? Honey cinnamon. So delicious.
Oh love it! Give me some cinnamon swirl toast to slather this on!!
Love those specks! Reminds me of Breyers ice cream…
I said the SAME thing! ^.^
Yum. Combine it with some vanilla sugar and you will be golden.
I love compound butters…this one looks delish!
ooh looks yummy and sounds yummy too! i LOVE to make my own butter! i frequently put things like cilantro, lemongrass, ginger, garlic and other things in my butter to put over steamed veggies or on bread….YUM
Mmmmm…as if I didn’t already love butter enough?! ;-)
Thank you for making that for me! How sweet of you. Now, please express mail it to my house. ;)
Yum! Doesn’t get much more simple and divine :)
Butter and I totally have a thing, but I might just have to leave it for vanilla bean butter! YUM!!
Preeeetttyyy. It looks like frosting.
Have you ever considered or have you written a cookbook?? It would save me from bookmarking pretty much every single recipe you have!!! ;) Vanilla Bean butter is next!
Yum! Simple yet would make everything taste so good. You should trademark this and package it in cute little jars, haha :)
Butter for life. You crack me up.
Yuuuuuuum! You think that if you sent some here, it would still be edible once it arrived??? :P
Where can you buy vanilla beans whole?
Butter butter butter. It is life sustaining!!! It makes me happy and with vanilla bean to boot makes me delirious! :)
You should be the next food network star. Vanilla bean butter? This sounds out of control.
I totally agree! Have you heard…PW is starring a Food Network show this summer (isn’t that exciting?) You should have your own show, too! How Sweet It Is would be a fun show! You could feature Mr. How Sweet, Nascar, stuffed turkeys and work out tips all in one show! Seriously! :-)
Vanilla + butter? Can you go wrong. I could think of like a million uses for this!
I do need some vanilla bean in my life… it’s like gold :)
You are too cute! Butter for life, indeed :) I can think of so many ideas for this!! Yum.
Mmm this would be just heavenly spread on scones or muffins!
If you added brown sugar to this mix I think I’d just eat it straight!
That is a fabulous idea! I love how vanilla beans make things look after they are incorporated into it. So pretty!
How simple.. looks so indulgent!
Spread it on a muffin? I’d eat that with a spoon. ;)
Not gonna lie — I love flavored butters and oils (more along the lines of roasted garlic infused, but this — this will definitely work too ;) ). I think lemon and basil butter and oil are awesome for veggies and such during the summer; so bright and zippy!
I made the mistake of buying a $14 container of 2 vanilla beans in front of my boyfriend once. I felt so judged haha. I think they’re worth it! You just can’t get the same flavor from extract.
YUM! Why is that sometimes the simplest ideas turn out to be the best ones…or bette yet how come I never think of them? haha!
Yummy! What a fabulous idea!
YUM! Genious, Jessica! I just just imagine this spread on a warm breakfast muffin! :-)
This is a lovely idea! I must try this asap!
That sounds delicious! Of course, most things that involve butter are :)
So simple, yet so delicious. I would slather this on a fresh out the oven scone, mmm, mmm good!
holy crap.
What a delicious idea! I just made tons of buttercream frosting for cupcakes a few days ago and have vanilla bean and butter left over! :)
Yum. How could butter + vanilla ever be bad?
:)
Or just eat it out of the bowl.
My dad would be ALL OVER this. He eats pats of butter for dessert. This would probably blow his mind.
Oh this is so sinful!!
You’re so awesome. How do these ideas come to you!
I know its been asked but I have never been able to find whole vanilla beans…did you find them in a store or did you buy them online? I’m at a loss and this looks so incredible!
Hey, Jessica! I have never written on your wall, but i thought that my little ol’ self should drop you a line, particularly since that pesky moniker happens to belong to both of us. This butter sounds amazing! However, even more amazing is your stylish, wonderful website which i admit to checking eagerly every day for new recipes or tidbits about your day. Your cheerful, cheeky writing always brightens my sometimes-dull high school days and i think you and your taylor-swift loving husband are adorable! Go Mr. How Sweet! Your website truly is toothsome :-)
id like to swim in that
Imagine enrobing them with chocolate and making butter truffles? Wouldn’t that delicious….or insane.