Easy Cranberry Butter Recipe

Orange Cranberry Butter

orange cranberry butter

Follow my easy cranberry butter recipe, so that you can serve this festive spread on biscuits, toast, bagels or whatever else you’d like.

The flavored butter looks beautiful on a holiday table and it tastes absolutely amazing.

After you’ve made cranberry orange butter once, you’ll want to make it regularly, even when it isn’t the holiday season.

One of the ingredients is cranberry sauce.

You can either set aside some of your favorite homemade cranberry sauce for the butter or you can use canned cranberry sauce.

Either way, you will get tasty butter that is a beautiful color.

Sometimes, it’s ok to use dried orange zest from a jar instead of fresh, but in this recipe you will want to use fresh orange zest.

I like using the little 4 ounce mason jars to serve the pretty butter.

If you have a large family, it is nice to set a few of them spaced out on the table.

If you’d rather have a “stick” of butter, you can spoon it onto parchment paper and roll it into a log shape.

Enjoy!

Serves: 8-10
Prep time: 10 minutes
Total time: 3-4 hours in the fridge

Critus Zester
Microwave Safe Bowl
Mason Jars to hold butter or parchment paper to roll butter

1) Zest the orange.

2) Place butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds to soften.

3) Add orange zest, cinnamon, cranberry sauce and brown sugar to the butter and stir well to combine.

4) Either spoon cranberry butter into mason jars or roll it in parchment paper to form a log.

5) Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours, so that the butter is firm.