Upgrade Your Morning Toast With These 13 Fruit Butters
Everyone can use a little extra sweetness in the morning, especially on weekdays. If you love having toast for breakfast, then topping it with some fruit butter is the perfect upgrade. They are thick yet spreadable, and the natural sugars of the fruit make them delicious yet not overly sweet. Here are thirteen recipes for you to try this season.
1. Pumpkin Cream Cheese Spread
![A knife spreads some pumpkin cream cheese over a slice of bread.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/pumpkin-cream-cheese-recipe-1-1024x576.jpg)
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Spread is an easy-to-make, delicious spread for your bagel or toast this season.
2. Cranberry Butter
![An open canning jar filled with cranberry butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cranberry-butter-2--1024x576.jpg)
Get the most out of your fresh cranberry harvest with this Cranberry Butter. It’s sweet yet slightly tart, which makes it the perfect companion to toast, ice cream, and baked turkey.
3. Pumpkin Butter
![An open canning jar filled with pumpkin butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/pumpkin-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
Yep, this one is for fall. But remember that fall is only a few weeks away. So bookmark this delicious Pumpkin Butter recipe for chilly autumn mornings.
4. Slow Cooker Apple Butter
![An open jar filled with Overnight Apple Butter on a white background.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/overnight-apple-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
Slow Cooker Apple Butter is a wonderful apple condiment that makes your kitchen and house smell so homey while it cooks. It’s delicious on toast or with vanilla ice cream.
5. Date Caramel
![The finished date caramel in a clear glass serving bowl with a small wooden spoon for serving, resting in the bowl.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/date-caramel-recipe-1-1-1024x576.jpg)
Date Caramel is a delicious date butter that wraps you up in comfort and hugs you tight. Spread it on toast or spoon a little over vanilla ice cream.
6. Plum Butter
![Plum Butter in a white bowl surrounded by fresh plums.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/plum-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
Make a big batch of Plum Butter for your morning toast. It’s a delicious way to start the morning, and everyone will love it. It’s great on rice crackers, too.
7. Amish Apple Butter
![An overhead view of an open jar filled with amish apple butter. The jar lid and an apple lay to the sides of the jar.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/amish-apple-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
Amish Apple Butter is a very traditional apple butter that will remind you of the old days when things were simpler, and life moved along at a slower pace.
8. Raspberry Butter
![A slice of toast with Raspberry Butter on it.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/raspberry-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
Raspberry Butter is everything that is summer. You get all that delicious flavor of summer raspberries without having to worry about how fast they go bad in the fridge.
9. Blueberry Apple Butter
![A glass jar sits on a floral cloth and is filled with blueberry apple butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/blueberry-apple-butter-1024x576.png)
This Blueberry Apple Butter is such a great seasonal transition fruit butter. It’s a little summer and a little fall. But no matter when you eat it, it’s delicious.
10. Fig Butter
![A closeup of a small white crock filled with fig butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/fig-butter-1024x576.png)
Figs will be in season here shortly, if not already. So collect a big bag of them and make some of this delicious Fig Butter.
11. Persimmon Butter
![Persimmons stacked in three sets on a dark blue background.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/persimmon-pulp-1-1024x576.jpg)
While persimmons won’t be in season for a few more weeks, this Persimmon Butter recipe is worth saving for when they do.
12. Homemade Apple Butter
![A closeup of an open jar of apple butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/apple-butter-1-1024x576.jpg)
This is a basic Homemade Apple Butter recipe that is great for beginners. It has all the classic flavors you hope for without any of the white processed sugar.
13. Sweet Potato Butter
![A closeup of a jar of sweet potato butter.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sweet-potato-butter-1024x576.png)
This Sweet Potato Butter is great any time of year, but especially now as we slide slowly into autumn. Make a big batch and spread a healthy helping of your morning whole-grain toast.
5 Nice Cream Recipes You Have To Try
![A small white bowl sits filled with strawberry n'ice cream. A used wooden spoon sits in front of the bowl.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/strawberry-nice-cream-1-1024x576.png)
N’ice cream is a fantastically refreshing dessert option. Made with 100% fruit, you never have to feel guilty about enjoying this treat.
17 Clean Eating Fat Bomb Recipes
![A pile of peanut butter fat bombs lay on a wood surface.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/peanut-butter-fat-bombs-1024x576.png)
Trying to work a little more healthy fats into your sweet treats? These fat bombs deliver healthy fats while giving you a little something sweet to enjoy.
9 Overripe Banana Recipes That Are Healthy
![A wood tray holds two bunches of bananas with a few brown spots on them.](https://www.thegraciouspantry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bananas--1024x576.jpg)
Have ripe bananas lying around? Use them up before they go bad with one of these recipes that use ripe bananas.
This originally appeared on The Gracious Pantry.