Can You Freeze Lemon Butter?

For a quick and easy method to add delicious flavour to your cooking or baking, you can’t go wrong with having a batch of lemon butter handy in the fridge. Add a spoonful to your fish or use it in your baking. For a fresh taste, you could even add some over your veggies.

If you have made up a large batch you might be wondering, can you freeze lemon butter?

How To Freeze Lemon Butter

When it comes to freezing lemon butter you have two options to choose from. These depend on how much butter you want in the fridge in one go! For easy portion sizes, you can use the ice cube tray method.

If you would prefer larger batches then you can freeze in containers or freezer bags.

How to Freeze Small Portions of Lemon Butter

This method is perfect if you are only ever going to need small portions of lemon butter at a time. Using ice cube trays means that you get the perfect size for one person and you can grab out the perfect amount at a time.

1. Portion into Ice Cubes
   Spoon lemon butter into each ice cube tray. Make sure you leave a little gap at the top to allow the butter to expand a little.
2. Flash Freeze
   Put the tray into the freezer. Keep it flat and near the top of the freezer and leave it for a couple of hours.
3. Bag Up
   Once the lemon butter has frozen you can take the ice cube tray bag out of the freezer. Pop the lemon butter cubes out of the tray and transfer them into a freezer bag,
4. Seal
   Squeeze out any excess air from the bag and seal it tightly.
5. Freeze
   Label the bag with the date and contents and pop it back into the freezer.

How to Freeze Batches of Lemon Butter

If you like to have some lemon butter in the fridge at all times then this method works because you can freeze larger batches in containers and then whenever you run out of lemon butter in the fridge you can grab out another container from the freezer and pop it into the fridge.

1. Portion Out
   Freezer-safe containers with lids work the best for this but you can also use freezer bags if you need. Spoon portions of butter into your containers or freezer bags.
2. Seal
   Pop the lid onto the container or if you are using freezer bags squeeze out as much air as you can. Seal the bags.
3. Label
   Label the lemon butter with the name and the date so you don’t forget when you need to use the lemon butter by.
4. Freeze
   Pop them into the freezer until you need them.

How to Freeze Lemon Butter Sauce

If you like to use your lemon butter to make delicious lemon butter sauce then there is more good news! You can freeze this too. It’s easy to do and you can keep it frozen for up to a month without the taste degrading too much.

1. Portion
   Pour your sauce into suitable freezer-safe containers. These need to have a lid. Leave a gap at the top of the container. The sauce will expand a little so this ensures you don’t end up with a mess in the freezer.
2. Seal
   Put the lid on the containers.
3. Protect
   Add a freezer bag around the container to really make sure that you get no spills as it freezes.
4. Freeze
   Label with the date and contents and pop the lemon butter sauce into the freezer.

3 Tips for Freezing Lemon Butter

Now you know how to freeze it, we’ve got our 3 top tips which we strongly recommend following when freezing lemon butter to have the best results:

Consider Uses
Think about how you’re likely to use lemon butter then freeze it in appropriately sized containers. If you only use a smidge to dress veggies then only freeze it in ice cube portions, for example. 

Mix It Up
Don’t be afraid to mix it up by adding other flavours to your butter. Try adding in capers or olives to give it that salty hit. But always remember to clearly label the flavour of the butter. 

Use from Frozen
You won’t actually need to defrost lemon butter to use it. Grab a piece from the freezer and pop it straight into the pot. It will melt and you can use it. 

How Long Can You Freeze Lemon Butter?

Lemon butter is one of those wonderful foods that keeps for ages in the fridge. It keeps for even longer in the freezer! You can keep it successfully frozen for up to twelve months without worrying about the texture or taste changing too much.

You Can Freeze Lemon Butter for Around 12 Months

How Do You Defrost Lemon Butter?

Lemon butter is super easy to defrost. All you need to do is to take it out of the freezer. Pop it into a bowl into the fridge and leave it there until it has defrosted!

If you are using smaller ice cube size portions in your cooking then you can get away with not defrosting it at all. Just pop it into the dish you are cooking and let it defrost as the whole meal cooks.

Can You Refreeze Lemon Butter?

We wouldn’t recommend that you refreeze lemon butter. It freezes well the first time around but there is no guarantee it will stay delicious the more often it freezes.

Does Lemon Butter Freeze Well?

Lemon butter does freeze very well! It is one of those rare foods that have almost no change at all in the freezer so you shouldn’t notice any difference at all between freshly made lemon butter and frozen.

Related FAQs

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