Homemade Pumpkin Butter

This easy homemade Pumpkin Butter is made with pumpkin puree, maple syrup, brown sugar, and warm fall spices, then simmered until thick, smooth, and spreadable. Ready in about 30 minutes, it’s perfect for toast, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, and more.

Pumpkin butter is what you make when you want pumpkin pie flavor without making pumpkin pie.

Keep a jar in the fridge and add a spoonful to pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, yogurt, toast, muffins, or wherever you need a little more pumpkin flavor. (Or yes, eat it straight from the jar.)

And despite the name, there’s no butter involved. You also don’t need to roast a pumpkin, drag out the blender, or do anything more complicated than open a can of pumpkin puree.

Everything goes into one saucepan and cooks down on the stove. That’s it.

Thirty minutes later, you’ve got a jar of pumpkin butter ready to work its way through breakfast all week.