Cooking Tip: How To Make Compound Herbed Butter

Cooking Tip- How to make Compound Butter

Updated 2025. If you've never made compound herbed butter, then you're missing out!  There’s nothing quite like the flavor boost a good compound butter can bring to your cooking. Whether melted over grilled steak, stirred into pasta, tossed with vegetables, or spread on warm bread, compound butter is a simple way to elevate everyday dishes into something special.

The best part? It’s incredibly easy to make, completely customizable, and a great way to use up fresh herbs or specialty ingredients in your kitchen.

What Is Compound Butter?

Compound butter is simply softened butter mixed with flavorful ingredients—fresh herbs, seasonings, aromatics, zests, cheeses, or even sweet additions. Once blended, the butter is shaped, chilled, and ready to use whenever you need a burst of flavor. Here are some of our favorite combinations. 20 Sweet & Savory Compound Butter Recipes.

How to Make Compound Herbed Butter

Ingredients

• 1 stick (½ cup) unsalted butter, softened

• Your choice of flavor add-ins (see ideas below)

Preparation

Soften the butter
Leave butter at room temperature for 20–30 minutes until easily spreadable.

Choose your flavor combination
Add finely chopped herbs, Cherchies® Seasoning Blends, citrus zest, roasted garlic, or other mix-ins.
Start with 1–2 tablespoons per stick of butter and adjust to taste. Here are some of our favorite combinations, 20 Sweet & Savory Compound Butter Recipes.

Mix until smooth
Combine the butter and ingredients in a small bowl and stir until evenly blended.

Shape the butter
Spoon the mixture onto a piece of parchment paper and roll it into a log. Twist the ends to seal. Or, you can spoon the mixture into prepared molds or pretty jars. All these options would make perfect gifts.

Chill
Refrigerate for at least 1 hour (or freeze for longer storage).
Slice as needed.

Storage Tips

• Refrigerate up to 1 week

• Freeze up to 3 months

• Slice only what you need to keep the rest fresh

How to Use Cherchies® Compound Butters

• Melt over grilled steaks, chicken, or seafood

• Toss with steamed or roasted vegetables

• Spread on baguettes, rolls, or cornbread

• Add to pasta, risotto, or rice

• Dollop onto baked potatoes

• Finish eggs, broccoli, green beans, or roasted squash

• Use sweet butters for breakfast or baking

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See below how it’s done.

We usually divide the butter into small bowls and make a batch of different flavors.  This time, we combined butter with Fig Preserves With Cinnamon (left), then Champagne mustard and Blackberry Preserves (middle), and finally Champagne Mustard and Garlic 'n Herb Seasoning (right).

The last time we made herbed butter, we used our favorite seasoning blends.

Place butter on parchment paper or plastic wrap and roll into logs.  Or, you could place butter into pretty containers and give as lovely homemade gifts for your favorite cook.   Enjoy!

Cooking Tip: How To Make Lemon Raspberry, Blackberry Champagne, and Champagne Garlic Compound Butter

Food for Thought...Inspirational Cooking Quotes

Well, the kiddos are back to school, and it's a dreary rainy day here in Pennsylvania.  I was going through our memories this summer and thought...ahh, what a lovely summer!  I was sad at first to see the kiddos go back, but I handed them back to our school district so they could gain all kinds of knowledge and wisdom;)  I guess I'm not used to the quiet.

Then I found this picture in my cache of summer photos and thought today would be a great day to share inspirational quotes.

Here are a few of my favorites...

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” 
― Julia Child

"Cookery is not chemistry.  It is an art.  It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements"

__ Marcel Boulestin

"Remember, your guests aren't coming to rate your cooking.  They are coming to spend time with you".

__ Anonymous

"Learn how to cook...try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!"

__ Julia Child

"The key to eating a black and white cookie, Elaine, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet, still, somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie. All our problems would be solved."
__Jerry Seinfeld, in "The Dinner Party"  (I just thought this was funny...)

Lemon Dill Dip Recipe

This is one of my favorite dip recipes! It's light and refreshing, and our Cherchies® lemon dill spice makes it irresistibly good. Cherchies® Lem 'n Dill Seasoning is our original and still most popular seasoning. (Did I mention it comes in two sizes?). Obviously, it is fabulous in a dip, but it's also great on chicken, fish, eggs, and vegetables. 

Combining equal parts of mayonnaise and sour cream enhances the flavors of the spices in this dip, and I would NOT leave out the mayonnaise.  (You could substitute the sour cream with Greek yogurt and use light mayo for a lighter version).  I recommend making this dip a few hours or a day ahead as the flavors intensify over time!  We also have a no-salt lemon dill seasoning!  Try our other seasoning blends instead of the Lem 'n Dill for an array of tasty dips.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Mayonnaise

• 1/2 cup sour cream (you can substitute fat-free Greek yogurt

• 1-2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherchies® Lem 'n Dill Seasoning (Try our other spices and seasoning blends in lieu of the Lem 'n Dill)

Preparation

Combine all the ingredients in a medium bowl.  Chill dip for at least two hours (can be made a day ahead).  

For a fun twist on veggies and dip, try arranging the veggies in shot glasses with the dip at the bottom. Vloia...instant cute individual appetizers!  I made these cuties for my parent's recent surprise 50th Anniversary party. They were a huge hit! 

Maybe your kids would even eat their veggies presented this way;)  (Mine did!) 

For a Halloween flair, cut up orange peppers to look like Jack o Lanterns, cutting a wide mouth to allow the dip to ooze out.  Spooky!  Enjoy!

Lemon Dill Dip Recipe

Cooking Tip: How to Chill Drinks Without Watering Them Down?

How do you chill your drinks without watering them down?  One "sweet" answer, frozen fruit!  I especially love frozen grapes or blueberries to chill my beverages.  But frozen grapes aren't just for chillin', they're also a fantastic snack!  Our family got hooked on frozen grapes a few years back while vacationing in California and It's been a favorite warm weather treat since.

Simply wash the fruit and place it in a bowl and plop it in the freezer.  In a few hours, you'll have lovely "fruity" ice.  You could use any frozen fruit and match it to your beverage of choice for the perfect drink. And a bonus, you get to eat the grapes!