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Easy Fruit Butters

March 27, 2012 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 3 Comments

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Want a quick, easy, elegant and “oh by the way” inexpensive way to jazz up your Easter Brunch?  Or any brunch, breakfast or get together for that matter?

Why not try Fruit Butters!

I thought this was the perfect idea up to try for this month’s Walmart Mom Easter Brunch challenge!  The ingredients are uber simple:

All you need is unsalted butter and the jam of your choice.  I’m try to eat as little processed food as possible, so decided to go with the “simply fruit” versions of the jams to keep mine as natural as possible!  Of course you can use salted butter instead in a pinch-but remember to take the salt into consideration for your flavorings.

Now this recipe is so simple you almost can’t call it a recipe.  You are making what a chef would call a “compound butter”.  In layman’s terms that is just adding a flavoring to a butter.  Here’s how you do it:

First I brought the butter to room temperature so it was soft and mixable.  If you have hard butter and are in a rush you can microwave it in 5-10 second bursts, flipping the butter as you go.  But be careful-you are likely to wind up with melted butter instead of softened butter if you are not careful.  Not the same thing at all.

Then I simply added a huge dollop of the fruit jam and mixed well.

Viola!  Fruit butter!  I made mine in apricot and raspberry.  Then for fun I took some maple syrup out of the fridge and made maple butter as well.

You’ve got something tasty and elegant in no time flat.  The kids really liked the maple best, with the raspberry second.  I love the raspberry-but I’m a raspberry fiend. . .it’s my favorite fruit ever.  I liked the apricot second best-I guess the kids just don’t have a taste for that.

This butter can be made up ahead of time and stored in the fridge for a long time-pretty much as long as you’d feel comfortable storing either butter or jam.  Which for most people is darn near indefinitely.

If you don’t use it all, or want it to last even longer-no problem.  It freezes really well!  Just take your softened fruit butter, put it on a rectangle of wax paper, roll it up and twist the ends.  You’ve got a nice little tube of fruit butter-just remember to label it.

To use it you can either defrost it and put it back into a nice bowl-or you can just slice it frozen.

Have you ever made fruit butter? What’s your favorite flavor?

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  1. Lora says

    April 3, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    The only fruit butter I knew of previously was apple butter. So when I saw the headline, I thought the recipe was going to involve hours in the slow cooker for fruits. I’m going to try the maple type first. What an excellent way to stretch expensive maple syrup!

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  2. Rebekka says

    June 14, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Love it!!! Do you think I can add fresh fruit instead of jelly or jam???

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    • Jenn @ Frugal Upstate says

      June 15, 2012 at 8:51 am

      Rebekka-Hmm. I haven’t tried it. I think with something soft, like raspberries or blueberries you could probably pulse them in a food processor and then add them-but you’d be missing some of the sweetness. You could make a quick “coulis” or cooked down fruit with some sugar on the stove-basically the chopped up fruit (let’s say peaches) enough water not to stick and a bit of sugar, on medium to low heat cook it down till it’s a soft paste, let it cool and then add it. I’d keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t burn-but it shouldn’t take long to cook down if the fruit is ripe to start with. Again-I haven’t tried this, I just think it should work from my knowledge of cooking 🙂

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I’m Jenn –an Upstate NY wife, mom, blogger and veteran. I talk very fast, read constantly, take on too much and make plenty of mistakes. I’m a real person, not perfection. I love to talk about the frugal lifestyle, “Village Homesteading”, living a more sustainable lifestyle and being prepared for all the curves life throws at you.

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