This cinnamon butter recipe is quick and easy to make. It’s a delicious copycat version of Texas Roadhouse cinnamon butter and is perfect to spread on just about anything.
A few of our favorite recipes that highlight butter are garlic butter sauce, buttered noodles, and steak butter.
Cinnamon butter makes everything better! If you have been to Texas Roadhouse, you are probably familiar with their famous butter that they serve with warm, soft dinner rolls. This butter recipe is a wonderful copycat, you’re going to want to put it on everything.
Why this Cinnamon Butter Recipe works
- Requires just a few common, simple ingredients you might already have at home.
- Can be made at a fraction of the cost of pre-packaged cinnamon butter or at the restaurant.
- It’s so good slathered on just about anything.
Copycat Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter Ingredients
- Butter – Use high quality, unsalted butter. I prefer using unsalted because you can control the sodium. You can substitute with salted butter if you prefer. Make sure to start with room temperature butter to make it easy to mix.
- Cinnamon – Ground cinnamon adds lots of flavor to the spread. Try using fresh, high quality ground cinnamon for the best taste.
- Powdered Sugar – Adds a touch of sweetness to the butter. If you want to cut back on calories, feel free to reduce the amount or omit.
- Honey – Adds another layer of sweetness.
- Vanilla extract – Offers a warm, rich flavor to the butter.
- Salt – Helps to balance the sweetness.
How to make Cinnamon Butter
Scroll to the bottom for full, printable recipe, ingredients and video.
- Ingredients: Place softened butter, honey, powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt in a large bowl.
- Mix: Use an electric stand mixer or hand mixer to whip the butter and combine ingredients.
- Serve: Serve immediately or store in an airtight container.
Cinnamon Sugar Butter Tips
- Make sure to allow enough time for the butter to soften.
- This recipes makes a cup of butter. Feel free to cut the recipe in half if you don’t want that much. It does keep well and for about one month in the refrigerator.
- The longer the mixture sits, the more the flavors will come together and develop.
Storing Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter
Store: Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one month. This butter can be left out at room temperature for 1-3 days. So if you are serving it at a party or the holidays, it’s ok to sit out on the table.
Freeze: The butter can be frozen for up to one month.
Does Texas Roadhouse butter have to be refrigerated?
Cinnamon butter can be left out for 1-2 days. To make it last longer, cover and store in the refrigerator.
Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter Recipe Sustitutions
Butter – You can substitute with salted butter or vegan butter.
Vanilla – If you don’t have vanilla extract, you can substitute with vanilla bean paste.
Honey – Try something a little different by substituting honey with maple syrup.
Sugar – You can substitute powdered sugar with brown sugar for a richer flavor.
Cinnamon Butter FAQs
There are approximately 125 calories for 1 ½ tablespoons in the Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter.
Honey butter can last for about 3 months in the refrigerator before it can start to break down. Make sure to keep it covered in the refrigerator.
Ways to use Cinnamon Sugar Butter
These are a few things we love to spread our honey butter on:
- Banana muffins
- Cake mix waffles
- Cake mix banana bread
- Jiffy cornbread
- Baked sweet potato
- Biscuits
- French toast
More cinnamon recipes
- Cinnamon toast – The best cinnamon toast cooked 3 different ways.
- Cinnamon twists – Puff pastry twisted with cinnamon and sugar.
- Apple pie filling – Cooked cinnamon apples perfect for pie filling.
Let me know if you made this copycat recipe in the comments.
Cinnamon Butter
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a bowl. Using an electric mixer, mix until whipped and combined.
- Store in airtight container in the refrigerator.
Mary Z
Can this be canned? Will it store well?
Jennifer
I was wondering if I could use my Ninja blender to do this butter instead of an electric mixer.
heather
Yes I think if you just pulsed it a few times that would work fine. Enjoy!
Karen
This recipe is great! Thanks!
heather
So happy you enjoyed it!
Swathi
That Cinnamon butter looks delicious I need to try ti. My kids love this.
Kita Bryant
That butter is something to marvel at. I always make sure I get plenty when I go to Texas Roadhouse.
Marysa
This sounds amazing! My kids love cinnamon sugar toast, and I think they would really enjoy this as well.
Jenn @ EngineerMommy
Oh I love their butter. Who knew it was so easy to make this at home?! Thanks for the recipe.
Cathy Mini
This cinnamon butter recipe looks great to try. I will keep this recipe, thanks for sharing!
Lynndee
My husband loves cinnamon flavored everything. II will have to tell him about your recipe.
Catalina
I love cinnamon so much! It’s great to make this cinnamon butter at home!
Gervin Khan
That butter looks delicious and I am looking forward to make this recipe, thanks for sharing this with us.
Sam
Oh my goodness… Cinnamon. And Butter. Two of my favourite things! I think I have both. Totally having this on toast tomorrow!!
MELANIE EDJOURIAN
This sounds yummy. I’ve not made it quite like this before. I did make a cinnamon butter cream, once for a cake which tasted amazing. I bet this is just as good.
Tasheena
This is my favorite at Texas Roadhouse looking forward to giving this recipe a try.
Pam Wattenbarger
We love this butter. I make it often when we have fancy breads or to serve with biscuits! Yum!
Jen
I love texas roadhouse!! Haven’t eaten there in ages. They have amazing steaks
melissa chapman
Cinnamon butter looks so good and putting it on toast sounds and looks amazing. I know this will be a favorite butter f know that this will be a favorite for so many.
Amber Myers
Thank you for this! We love the cinnamon butter. I’ll have to try this out for sure.