Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter Recipe
Aug 17, 2020, Updated May 03, 2024
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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 honey butter chicken biscuits, 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.
If you like Texas Roadhouse be sure to try these other copycat recipes from their menu like seasoned rice, steak seasoning, and green beans with bacon.
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.
Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter Substitutions
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.
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.
Cinnamon Butter Recipe 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.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I tried your recipe using Brown Sugar in place of the the Powdered Sugar.
The texture of the Butter is a bit grainy, but I’ll try it again using the OG recipe.
This was great! Very easy and tastes just the real thing!
Can this be canned? Will it store well?
I was wondering if I could use my Ninja blender to do this butter instead of an electric mixer.
Yes I think if you just pulsed it a few times that would work fine. Enjoy!
This recipe is great! Thanks!
So happy you enjoyed it!
That Cinnamon butter looks delicious I need to try ti. My kids love this.
That butter is something to marvel at. I always make sure I get plenty when I go to Texas Roadhouse.
This sounds amazing! My kids love cinnamon sugar toast, and I think they would really enjoy this as well.
Oh I love their butter. Who knew it was so easy to make this at home?! Thanks for the recipe.
This cinnamon butter recipe looks great to try. I will keep this recipe, thanks for sharing!