Look what you can do with buttermilk syrup!

Dennis Weaver Dec 14, 2024

Buttermilk syrup is really good. So go ahead, drown your pancakes and waffles in this luscious syrup. But don’t stop there. Here are some other ways to enjoy the wonders of buttermilk syrup, and syrups to choose from:

Buttermilk syrup on french toast, bread pudding, and pannekoeken

Reach for buttermilk syrup when you make French toast. If you’re making stuffed French toast, complement the filling with the flavor of the syrup. Buttermilk syrup works on bread pudding (above) too. And pannekoeken, most people put butter and syrup on their pannekoeken (Dutch babies). But mix it up, not always maple. You have ten choices here.

Fresh peaches in a pannekoeken with whipped cream and buttermilk syrup

Top a cake with buttermilk syrup

Top a cake with buttermilk syrup (or lemon syrup). It’s quick and easy to do. Top it off with fruit or whipped cream. What’s seen here is a vanilla cake topped with blueberries and drizzled with lemon syrup. The blueberries stained the lemon syrup a beautiful magenta color.

Buttermilk syrup on a cake with blueberries

Lemon syrup on top of a vanilla cream cake

Make a poke cake

Make a poke cake. This too is easier than frosting. Here is a coconut, caramel, chocolate poke cake. The syrup can make the indescribably delicious. Get these three poke cake recipes to get you started.

chocolate poke cake with caramel buttermilk frosting

Chocolate poke cake with caramel buttermilk syrup

Put buttermilk syrup on anything ice cream

And anything ice cream works with buttermilk syrup—scoops, sundaes, banana splits and even shakes. This is a waffle topped with both whipped cream and ice cream. The waffle can be made with Vanilla Bean Cake batter.

This is a waffle sundae with caramel buttermilk syrup.

Baste your chicken or fish with buttermilk syrup.

Substitute buttermilk syrup for honey in your recipes.

You have more flavor choices—but not by a lot. See our 13 honey flavors. And it costs less. True, flavor is more viscous but you can control that. Cook your syrup a couple more minutes and it will thicken up. Don’t cook it too much or you’ll have candy—but really good candy.

Make a luscious frosting with your buttermilk syrup.

You can make glazes and frosting with buttermilk syrup. Just replaces the water or milk in the recipe with buttermilk syrup. (You may need to thicken it or thin it.) Here’s a cream cheese frosting recipe made with buttermilk syrup..

cream cheess frosting recipe made buttermilk syrup

Cream cheese frosting atop carrot cupcakes

Do away with plain whipped cream.

Sweeten it with buttermilk syrup instead of sugar. Don’t put too much in. The buttermilk syrup with its warm caramel flavor will give your whipped cream a soft caramel flavor.

For this application, we recommend either Old Fashioned Buttermilk Syrup for the most caramel flavor or Marshmallow Buttermilk Syrup.

You can make your whipped cream sturdier with meringue powder—it’ll hold up all afternoon.