Honey butter can be made sweet or savory and it adds a lovely complexity to baking, vegetables and even meats!. Use a good quality honey. Here are several variations of our butters, using our Honey Bee Zen Fireweed Honey, our Infused Hot Honey, and our late-season Harvest Moon Wildflower. Remember that any good quality honey will add layers of great flavour.
Fireweed Honey Butter
- ½ cup unsalted soft butter
- 3 oz by weight of HBZ Fireweed Honey
- ½ tsp salt
Mix all the ingredients together serve on with our Honey Biscuits, or on toast, pancakes…
Two of our honey butters. Fireweed honey butter on the left, Hot Honey butter on the right. Pictured with our honey biscuits.
Fireweed honey is a single-flower (monofloral) honey that we harvest from the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains. It is a native flower that comes into bloom where forests have either burned or were logged. It is a nitrogen-fixer that prepares the ground for the natural succession of wild bushes and trees that eventually repopulate the area.
Hot Honey Butter
- 1/2 cup unsalted soft butter
- 3 oz by weight of HBZ Hot Honey
- ½ tsp salt
Mix all ingredients together. Serve with Honey Biscuits, or add some garlic to make a hot garlic bread spread. Glaze and caramelize on wings, use it for grilled cheese sandwiches or mix with steamed vegetables or corn on the cob.
Our hot honey is made with real dried red chili flakes, not an oil, and so you’ll get a true flavour of natural heat!
Harvest Moon Honey Butter
- ½ cup unsalted soft butter
- 3 oz by weight of HBZ Harvest Moon Wildflower
- ½ tsp salt
Mix all the ingredients together serve on with our Honey Biscuits, or on toast, pancakes…
Harvest Moon wildflower is a pure, raw unpasteurized honey that evokes tastes of late summer and early fall. It tends to be darker, richer and more complex.