Brandy Butter Recipe (2024)

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What would you use brandy butter for? ›

A traditional accompaniment to Christmas pudding and mince pies, brandy butter is made with unsalted butter, sugar and brandy. It can be bought ready-made in pots and jars or made at home. Try this easy recipe for traditional brandy butter; perfect for slathering over mince pies or Christmas pudding.

In the Refrigerator- Brandy butter will keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for two to three weeks. In the Freezer- You can also freeze this butter for up to three months for later use. Just make sure it's in a well-sealed container. Defrost in the refrigerator and use it within a week.

However, alcohol can be found in a lot of boozy food, from brandy butter to liqueur chocolates and the gravy you pour all over your Christmas dinner.

Brandy butter uses caster sugar, giving the whipped unguent a pleasing graininess that dissolves on the tongue, part of the charm and a foil to the sticky pudding. There's an argument that brandy cream does a slightly better job though, as cream is much higher in milk sugar - lactose - than butter.

Hard sauce is a sweet, rich dessert sauce made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum (rum butter), brandy (brandy butter), whiskey, sherry (sherry butter), vanilla or other flavourings. It is served cold, often with hot desserts.

If it's not soft enough the brandy won't combine properly with the butter and it'll look curdled. The other important tip is to mix in the brandy gradually and ensure that each addition is fully combined before adding more. What is this? I've seen suggestions online to add more icing sugar or less brandy.

Mince pies taste absolutely gorgeous heated up in the oven with a big dollop of brandy butter on top. The combination of creamy liquor and festive mincemeat will reignite your love of Christmas.

Our brandy butter is made by creaming together butter and sugar with brandy. Drizzle it over our mini Christmas pudding or pair them up and create a special gift this Christmas. Store at room temperature. Once opened refrigerate use within 4 weeks.

That's brandy and cognac. Every cognac is a brandy, but not all brandy is a cognac. As previously mentioned, brandy is distilled fruit juice, and it can be any kind of fruit juice, while cognac is a specific type of distilled fruit juice with lots of qualifications.

Deliciously aromatic and superbly spiced, this traditional Christmas butter comes with a little Fortnum's twist. Made with the finest butter, sugar and a precisely judged splash of our very own cognac, it is perfectly paired with Christmas pudding and freshly warmed mince pies.

Can you buy brandy butter? ›

Tesco Finest Brandy Butter 200G.

It's perfect with toasted panettone, puff pastry mince pies or chocolate chip brownies, and spread some brandy butter on toasted bread or freshly baked scones for a delicious breakfast treat. Perfect with our recipes for British bread pudding or slow cooker Christmas pudding.

A good recipe to make in advance, brandy butter will keep for 2 - 3 weeks in the fridge or a couple of months if frozen.

It can be produced using grapes or other types of fruit, such as apples. Calvados, pisco, armagnac, and applejack are all types of brandy. Unlike cognac, brandy can be made anywhere in the world.

A common use of brandy is to flambé desserts like bananas foster, cherries jubilee, and bombe Alaska (a meringue dessert). On the savory end of things, brandy goes well with all sorts of meats and seafood. It's often used to deglaze the pan and form a sauce or combined with other liquids to braise a cut of meat.

Amish butter, or any higher-fat butter, will have the biggest impact in a recipe whose flavor relies on butter. Think perfect pie crust, fresh herb butter or Swedish butter cookies.

To call it hard “sauce” is something of a misnomer as the consistency is fairly firm and spreadable. However, as it is placed on a warm dessert (which is the customary way of serving it), it melts into what could be described as a dessert sauce.