Black Pepper Strawberry Butter

Updated Jun 18, 2025, Published Mar 21, 2014

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Black Pepper Strawberry Butter in a small bowl with a plate of biscuits sitting nearby.

Black Pepper Strawberry Butter Recipe

I’ve always loved flavored butters. I think it all started as a teenager when we’d get bagels at our tennis tournaments and there were always some sort of flavored cream cheese and butters. It was usually the honey butter that’d lure me in. And I’d be there all lady-like in my tennis skirt, smothering way too much honey butter on this un-toasted (the worst!) bagel. The butter made everything better. As it usually does.

My flavored butter love affair continued in the PANCAKES book. One of my favorite recipes in that book isn’t a pancake recipe, but actually the recipe for Berry Butters. That recipe goes something like this: you mash up berries, fold them into softened butter and add a few pinches of salt. The berries are very present in the butters and it’s nice.

Ingredients for Black Pepper Strawberry Butter are arranged on a table.

Black Pepper Strawberry Butter swirled in a small bowl.

This recipe right here is a lil’ different. The strawberries are made into a purée and slowly worked into the butter, so they incorporate completely. There’s honey for some added sweetness and the black pepper acts as this spicy little kick that works so wonderfully.

This weekend you should take an hour and make some biscuits (these biscuits, specifically) and make some dang flavored butter. I mean, look at this color. It’s just so pretty.

5 from 1 vote

Black Pepper Strawberry Butter

By Adrianna Adarme

Prep: 10

Total: 10

Servings: 6 servings, yields 1/2-2/3 cup butter

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Equipment

1 blender or food processor
1 fine mesh strainer
1 medium bowl
1 Hand mixer or stand up mixer

Ingredients

▢ 1/2 pint strawberries, about 5 to 7 strawberries, stems trimmed
▢ 1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
▢ 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
▢ 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
▢ 2 tablespoons honey

Instructions

In a blender or food processor, puree the strawberries until very smooth. Run the purée through a strainer and discard the pulp. It should measure out to be a little over 1/4 cup of puree. Season with salt and pepper.
In a medium bowl, add the butter, honey and 2 tablespoons of puree. (We’re going to incorporate this slowly.) Using a hand-mixer or a stand-up mixer, beat until smooth. At first the mixture will separate but the more you beat the butter, the more it’ll come together. Once it’s combined, add an additional 1 tablespoon at a time, adding about 3 more tablespoons. This will total to be about 1/4 cup, plus 1 tablespoon. Give it a taste and add a bit more honey or salt, if you like.
Serve at room temperature, if you like, or you can transfer it to the refrigerator until you’re ready to use it.