Beyond the spoon: recipes for using chocolate butter

Our chocolate butter is dangerously versatile 😉 .

Here's lots of tasty ways to use it, from quick snacks to dessert upgrades...

Breads and pastries

Like all of our sweet butters, we have our go-to recommendations, and you'll have heard all about these if you've met us at a food festival. Lots of these are easy breakfast items the butter can just be spread onto, but we're also sharing a recipe for chocolatey overnight oats!

• Toast

• Bagels

• Croissants

• Pancakes

• Waffles

• French toast

• Muffins

• Crumpets

• Scones

Chocolate butter overnight oats

Whether you're on-the-go in the morning, or you've got a busy lunchtime, this is a delicious bowl to prepare the night before, then look forward to all morning!

You'll need:

• 50g rolled oats

• 120ml milk

• 1-2 tbsp chocolate butter

• 1-2 tbsp yoghurt

• 1tsp honey or maple syrup

• Pinch of salt

Recipe:

1. In a jar / Tupperware add all of the ingredients

2. Stir well to mix everything in

3. Cover and place in the fridge and leave overnight or for at least 4 hours

4. In the morning re-stir and add toppings such as chopped fruit, chocolate chips, or peanut butter

Fruit, but tastier

Fruit is a quick snack, but you can easily make it that little bit better with butter! Some of our favourite suggestions are:

• Sliced banana with a dollop of chocolate butter.

• Chocolate covered strawberries is a favourite for many but by using our chocolate butter instead of melted chocolate, it's a much lighter and creamier flavour boost.

• Apple slices, our chocolate butter, and a tiny sprinkle of salt. Trust us, you must try it.

Simple additions to desserts

For some quick and easy additions, try the following, then read on for an upgrade on your traditional banana bread!

• Add to ice cream – great with vanilla ice cream or salted caramel as the chocolate butter works particularly well with these flavours. Either add a spoonful of the chocolate butter as a topping to your ice cream, or add ice cream and chocolate butter to a tall glass in layers as a bit of a sundae.

• Make your own cookie sandwich – this works best with chewy cookies as they don't crumble as much, but spreading our chocolate butter between 2 cookies is incredibly good at kicking those sweet tooth cravings!

• While baking, swirl the chocolate butter into brownie or cake batter for an additional chocolate flavour. This is what your baking has been missing.

Chocolate butter banana bread

Grab your overripe bananas, chocolate butter and get baking!

You'll need:

• 3 ripe bananas

• 150g chocolate butter

• 50g sugar

• 1 egg

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 180g self raising flour

Optional add ins

• Chocolate chips

• Chopped nuts

Recipe:

1.      Preheat oven to 175 degrees and grease a loaf pan

2.      Mash the bananas until they're mostly smooth, but there are still some lumps present

3.      Add our chocolate butter and the sugar to the bananas and mix until combined

4.      Then add the egg and vanilla extract

5.      Sprinkle in baking soda and salt

6.      Fold in the flour but DO NOT over mix

7.      Pour into your pre-greased loaf pan

8.      This is now the time to add in any extras such as the chocolate chips or nuts

9.      Bake for 50 – 60 minutes

10.  Leave to cool for around 10 minutes or dig straight in if you prefer a warm and gooey slice

How have you used your chocolate butter? We love to hear about different ways our butters are being used, so let us know in the comments below!

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