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If you’ve never tried homemade blueberry butter, you’re in for something special—it’s surprisingly simple to make and packed with flavor.
Recipe Highlights
- Blueberry butter (or apple butter or any fruit butters) do not contain real butter! It’s more of a silky jam.
- Hands off crock pot recipe
- A great change from other jams and butters
- Thick and full of cozy spice
- Just a word of caution, though… this can become addictive. 🙂
The Ingredients
- Blueberries: Perfect for using up extra blueberries in peak season
- Brown Sugar: Add the perfect amount of sweetness.
- Lemon Juice: Adds freshness to the recipe.
- Spices: Nutmeg and cinnamon add slightly warm, nutty, woody, and sweet flavors.
How to Make Blueberry Butter
- Toss all your ingredients into the slow cooker and let the magic begin.
- After a few hours, blend until smooth and velvety.
- Let it cook a bit more with the lid off to thicken into a luscious spread.
- Cool it down and spoon into jars or eat up!
Serving Ideas
- This blueberry butter makes the perfect topping for vanilla ice cream (or any flavor of your choice).
- Enjoy this blueberry sauce over toasted bread for breakfast or for snacking anytime. Speaking of bread, put a few dollops of this butter on French toast or biscuits.
- Try this recipe over English muffins or blueberry butter swim biscuits!
- Also, use the filling in the middle of tiered cakes instead of the usual raspberry filling.
Sarah’s Notes & Variations
Frozen blueberries can be used in this recipe with the same timing. They thaw quickly.
You can store this butter in mason jars or in an airtight container. Keep it in the fridge for 2-3 weeks. It will keep much longer when stored in the freezer. This is NOT a recipe safe for canning.
Stove-top: Combine all ingredients in a medium sauce pan and slow cook on low to medium heat, stirring often.
Featured Comment
Absolutely fantastic! I get asked for this by all my “non able to cook friends”. It is perfect on a big southern biscuit.
– Lisa
Blueberry Butter Recipe
How to Video
Ingredients
- 6 cups blueberries, (I used two-18 ounce packages of blueberries)
- 1 ½ cups packed light brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice, (do not use bottled)
- 1 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 hours.
- Spoon everything from the slow cooker into a blender (or use an immersion blender right in your slow cooker). Pulse until smooth.
- Pour the blueberry butter back into the crockpot and cook on HIGH for one more hour, but without the lid on this time. Stir occasionally.
Sarah’s Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Recipe Adapted from The Crock Pot Ladies
More Slow Cooker Fruit Recipes:
- Cranberry Apple Butter and Slow Cooker Apple Butter offer a cozy mix of sweet and tart flavors, perfect for fall mornings.
- Christmas Jam and Caramel Apple Butter are festive favorites that taste like the holidays in a jar.
- Banana Jam and Pumpkin Butter bring creamy texture and warm spice to toast, yogurt, or dessert boards.
Can you prepare this on the stove if you do not have a slow cooker?
Yes, it will work very well on the stove.
Why can’t you can this?
I am not a canning expert, you’ll want to make sure it has the right amount of acidity.
Plenty of acidity in blueberries (citric, tartaric, malic, etc.) alone, plus the addition of lemon juice (citric acid) makes this a perfect candidate for water bath canning. I’ve already canned one batch of this over eight months ago, and it’s still fine.
You can use bottled lemon juice just make sure its real, not the additive garbage one. That’s what I did and it was perfectly fine
Yes you can can it. I can a lot. Hot water bath 15 minutes.
WOW , I MADE THIS AND ITS SO GOOD. I USED FROZEN BLUEBERRYS JUST COOKED IT LONGER. THANK U!
If you use frozen blueberries to you need to thaw them
No, they will thaw quickly in the slow cooker.
Hi Sarah, how much is a serving? Thanks.
I don’t know measure. Serving amounts are just an estimate.
This sounds delicious! Can anyone tell me how much one serving is?
How long will they store in freezer.
About 6 months.
Can you leave out the nutmeg?
Yes!
If you freeze it, how long can you keep it after you thaw it?
Thank you
Thank you for sharing. I’m excited to try it!
Is the sugar structural, or just for taste?
Just for taste.