This recipe will teach you how to make a 6-ingredient slow cooker blueberry butter spread with that’s simply to die for. It’s absolutely fantastic on toast, pancakes, muffins and cookies.
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Why you will love this blueberry butter recipe
- Only takes 10 minutes to prep: Just measure out and add all of the ingredients into your crockpot, turn it on and you’re good to go!
- It’s incredible on everything: While this easy blueberry butter is good on pretty much everything, you’ll especially love it on toast, english muffins, pancakes and biscuits.
(You may also like: Cranberry Butter)
Blueberry Butter Ingredients
How to Make Blueberry Butter in a Slow Cooker
Other than requiring several hours of cooking time in a slow cooker, this blueberry butter recipe is incredibly straightforward to prepare from scratch:
- Combine ingredients. Add fresh blueberries, light brown sugar, honey, lemon zest, lemon juice, cinnamon, and nutmeg to the slow cooker and stir.
- Cook. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour, then blend until smooth. Return the mixture to the slow cooker, propping the lid with a spoon to let excess liquid evaporate.
- Finish and Jar. Cook on low for 4-5 hours, then ladle the blueberry butter into jars. Store until ready to use.
(Also try: Refrigerator Blueberry Jam)
How to Use Blueberry Butter
Here are some of our top recommended uses for your homemade slow cooker blueberry butter:
- Spread as a topping over bread, toast, muffins, biscuits, crackers, pancakes, waffles and croissants.
- Use it as a crepe filling.
- Melt it and brush over your meats before grilling (chicken, pork, fish, etc).
- Melt it and drizzle over top of vanilla ice cream or sundaes.
- Mix it in with oatmeal, yogurt or pudding.
How to Store Homemade Blueberry Butter
You’ll want to keep your slow cooker blueberry butter sealed up tightly inside of glass jars and then store them in the fridge. The butter will keep for up to 2 months when stored like this.
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Blueberry Butter Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 pounds fresh blueberries
- 1 ½ cups light brown sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to a slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Cover with a lid.
- Cook on high for 1 hour.
- Transfer the blueberry mixture to a blender and blend until smooth.
- Return the mixture to the slow cooker.
- Prop the lid up with a wooden spoon to allow excess liquid to evaporate.
- Cook on low for additional 4-5 hours.
- Ladle into jars and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Emma, wondering what I replace for all the brown sugar? Or lesson the amount?
Can you freeze it?
Definitely! It freezes really well :)
Can I use frozen blueberries?
Frozen will work! The flavor may be a bit more muted though and you’ll need to cook it down for longer.
I am wondering if this recipe could be used with any fruit, specifically strawberries?
Great question Kelly! I think strawberries would work, but tbh I haven’t actually tried it with strawberries before. There may be more liquid content in strawberries, so it may need to be cooked down more or add additional brown sugar and honey to get a good consistency.
Can you water bath can this? If so how long for pints & half pints.
Thanks!!
Sorry Lynn! I haven’t water bathed this and am not sure on the long term stability unrefrigerated.
Can this be processed in water bath for longer shelf life?thank you
Hey Linda! I know blueberry butter can be canned in a water bath, I just have not tried it yet and can’t really speak to if it would be shelf stable with the proportions and process I use.
There is a recipe from Ball directly for canning blueberry butter if you want to try something that has been confirmed as shelf stable: https://www.ballmasonjars.com/blog?cid=blueberry-butter
I am definitely going to be making this blueberry butter recipe! Looks amazing! Thank you so much for the recipe.💙💙
My husband really enjoys blueberries.
Can this be water bathed to be shelf stable?
Thank you
Has any tried this with artificial brown sugar?
Hi Tammy, sorry for the late reply but just came across this recipe. There’s a sugar called SWERVE there’s both available as white sugar and also brown sugar. The nicest thing about these SWERVE sugars no adjustments are needed it’s used as regular sugar.
How many jars does the make? How many dobi need? Recipe doesn’t say.
Always looking for different blueberry recipes. Now l have five bushes, 3 new, but 2 mature really produce.
Thank you
Absolutely delicious 😋. Thank you for sharing your recipes. I would like to water can them. May I for longer shelf life?
Blueberry butter made with slow cooker. Great idea. Taste is wonderful, didn’t change a thing.
I grow blueberries in my yard and I have bags of frozen blueberries. Can I use those?
Oh for sure Gemii, frozen blueberries would work great for this blueberry butter recipe!
I love these fruit butters better than jam or jelly