The Best Butter Board Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How to make the perfect butter board for the holidays? ›

Holiday Butter Board Tips for Success

🤶To make everything sanitary and safe, I recommend lining your serving board with parchment paper before smearing on the butter or cheese. 🔪I also recommend leaving butter knives on the side along with freshly sliced bread so your guests can use their own cutlery.

Once the butter is softened, you'll use a small knife or spoon to spread the butter as flat as possible onto any decorative board, cutting board or flat platter you have.

Alongside butter, these foods tend also to contain high amounts of sugar, while being low in other nutrients. High intakes of these types of foods is also linked with greater risk of heart disease. Overall, sharing a butter board with friends every now and then is unlikely to cause much harm to your health.

Butter boards, a new spin on charcuterie and cheese boards, are a wildly popular food trend across the world. At its core, this is exactly what it sounds like: It's butter on a board. But there are several techniques that go into creating butter boards and boundless variations on this trend.

The USDA recommends that salted, pasteurized butter can be left out for one to two days. (Remember, butter will keep longer in a cool house and spoil quicker in a warm house.) Butter is most often made with pasteurized milk, which means it's free of food-borne bacteria.

The basic recipe is one part beeswax to three parts mineral oil. For my small jar I used 2 Tablespoons beeswax and 6 Tablespoons mineral oil.

Butter must be soft so it spreads easily. (An hour on the counter seems to work in my house.) 2 tablespoons of butter per person is a great guide to how much butter you need.

It's as simple as smoothing butter onto a board, then topping with whatever gorgeous ingredients take your fancy. I'm topping this one with a sweet, salty and spicy combination that hits all the umami notes out of the park. Serve with fresh bread, crackers or crudités for a wonderful party appetiser.

TEXAS ROADHOUSE BUTTER BOARD (viral butter board recipe)

Ingredients • 1 stick salted butter, room temperature • 1/4 cup honey • 3 tbsp powdered sugar • 1 tbsp cinnamon + more to garnish • Warm bread Instructions • spread the butter on a platter • Place honey in a microwaveable bowl and heat for 10 seconds.

The "butter board" is similar to the conventional cheese and charcuterie platter, as it's a shared appetizer that requires no cooking at all. If anything, it's actually easier and requires less skill to create. Plus, it looks so perfect on Instagram!

Can I eat a stick of butter every day? ›

Considering the fact that saturated fat is also found in other dairy products and meat, it's wise to stick to 1 tablespoon or less of butter per day. “Small amounts of butter are fine, especially in a diet that's rich in fiber and overall low in saturated fat, or less than 10% of total calories.

In place of the cheese and meats on a charcuterie board, a butter board is softened butter spread out on a wooden board and then covered in herbs to serve over bread.

Store it in an opaque butter dish or airtight container to protect it from light and air. Store it away from direct sources of heat, such as the stove. Make sure the room's temperature is below 72 degrees Fahrenheit.

Arrange the cheese, salami, crackers, bread, nuts, olives, pickles, grapes, pomegranate, oranges, pears, apples, and dried fruit on a board, platter, or plate. Garnish with fresh cranberries and herbs. Serve.

Cut Up or Grate Butter

If you cut your butter into chunks instead of leaving it in one big stick, it'll warm up to room temperature much faster. First, measure the amount of butter you'll need, and then unwrap that amount. Cut the sticks into thin slices or chunks, and in around 10 minutes you'll have softened butter.

Serve a bowl of butter balls instead of putting out sticks or individual pats of butter. Simply place a melon ball scooper in very hot water for about five minutes. While it warms up, prepare a bowl of cold water with lots of ice cubes in it.

Slip two or three small stacks of sliced bread or crackers among the bowls, meats, and cheeses. Let them topple over and get a bit messy—it's part of the board's beauty. We used two kinds of crackers— asiago cheese and flax seed—to complement the various flavors on the board.