Fillings and Toppings
Flavorful Finishings with Butterball Farms
Butterball® Farms has more than 60 years of experience in crafting innovative and delectable products to put the finishing touches on your dishes. We offer a wide variety of customizable fillings and toppings for any occasion. Our in-house team of experts work with you through every step of the development process, from concept to full-scale production, helping you make your desired flavor a reality.
What Are Fillings?
Our fillings can be used in a range of foods, from chicken to pastries and anything in between. We design our fillings to complement your dish without overpowering it.
Some of our most popular products include butter with breadcrumbs and cheese for a gooey and creamy filling for salmon. Our chili pepper adobo filling pairs great with chicken and is often mixed with breadcrumbs and garlic.
We can create fillings in ready-to-go dollops with extras like spinach or lemon herb already mixed, or you can order a base filling and mix in whatever additional ingredients you choose.
What Are Toppings?
Are you looking to layer in more flavor to your product and make your servings look even better on the plate? At Butterball, we are always excited to innovate new toppings to create the perfect blend to complement your product.
We can do any topping you like, from sweet to savory. Some of our most popular toppings include cinnamon and brown sugar for breadsticks and blue cheese butter topping for steak. We also have an ever-increasing variety of products for Mexican dishes, including chimichurri, baja, suiza enchilada, and chipotle lime.
Our customizable butters also have endless combinations and applications. Make your oysters shine with butter featuring spinach, breadcrumbs, garlic, or any combination of our other flavors. Those combinations can also be great with chicken breast, just like our sun-dried tomato topping.
Satisfy Guests, Simplify Your Process
Butterball is committed to making high-quality, consistent products that will save you time and improve your profit margins. Our premade toppings and fillings will improve efficiency in your kitchens and wow your customers with their flavor.
Our products are fully customizable to meet your unique needs and the needs of the ever-evolving consumer. More and more customers are looking for non-dairy and vegan options for their meals. Butterball is ahead of the curve in creating next-gen plant-based ingredients for our toppings and fillings. We offer plant-based “butter” products that provide your customers with options and great flavor. You can also mix in additional ingredients, such as mustard, ginger, or flaxseed, to add extra flavor to your products.
High-Quality Products for the Food Industry
- Restaurants: We know restaurants have been hit hard by the post-pandemic labor shortage, which is why we design our products to help you cut down on prep-time and labor costs. Our premade fillings and toppings come in tubs or pre-allocated dollops to facilitate whatever method best suits your kitchen.
- Wholesalers: Butterball has experience working with some of the biggest brands and consumer packaged goods in the industry. We understand your company’s needs and are ready to work with you to create the best final product for your customers.
- Meal kit services: Our pre-allocated dollops are perfect for packaging with meal kits. The variety Butterball offers means you can have garlic butter for your spinach, sun-dried tomato butter for your chicken, and even white chocolate flavored butter for your desserts.
- Hospitality chains: We know breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day at hospitality chains, which is why we offer customizable toppings that pair great with breakfast foods. Make your omelets stand out with caramelized onion and bacon flavored butter, or add blackened Cajun butter to your skillets.
- Caterers: Are you looking to cut down prep-time on your catering meals? Butterball’s pre-mixed fillings and toppings allow you to combine several steps down into one.
- Retailers: Butterball makes it easy for retailers to offer delicious dessert toppings at their bakeries and savory poultry stuffed with fillings in their meat departments.
Types of Fillings
Over six decades of butter and flavoring experience means we have lots of ideas for fillings to create, including:
- Fillings for desserts: Some of our most popular flavored dessert butters include honey vanilla, cinnamon, spicy honey, pumpkin, caramel, white chocolate, and maple and brown sugar. Use it as a topping or insert it as a filling for a cake or a dessert breakfast offering!
- Meat fillings: Choosing the right filling for meat can truly complement the protein without running away with the flavor. Our Latin-inspired butter flavors are perfect fillings for chicken, pork, and steak.
- Seafood fillings: Our cream cheese, shrimp scampi, garlic herb, or breadcrumb butter varieties are perfect fillings to easily add craveable, unique flavor to your seafood dishes.
Types of Toppings
At Butterball, we love toppings just as much as butter! Some of our most popular include:
- Burger topping: Want the topping on your burger to pack a punch? We can combine any number of flavors so you can create the perfect burger, from barbecue to bleu cheese topping.
- Dessert topping: Add that extra bit of sweetness with a dessert topping, from bright fruit toppings to indulgent chocolate toppings to sweet maple-bourbon toppings.
Finish Your Dishes with Expertly Crafted Fillings & Toppings
Butterball’s expert staff are ready to work with you to create the perfect filling or topping for your meals.
We have more than six decades of experience in creating unique, craveable flavor solutions to match every kind of dish. Our staff are veterans in the science of flavor and work with some of the biggest brands in the country. If you’ve got an outside-the-box idea for how to add that unique twist to your dish, we’d love to help you make it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between a filling and a topping?
Simple: a filling goes inside, a topping goes on. Our fillings tuck flavor into proteins and pastries, like a breadcrumb-and-cheese filling for salmon or a chili-pepper adobo for chicken. Our toppings layer flavor and shine on top, from cinnamon brown sugar on breadsticks to blue cheese butter on a steak. We make both, sweet and savory.
Who uses fillings and toppings?
Restaurant chains, food manufacturers, meal kit companies, hospitality groups, and retailers, anyone who wants to layer in flavor without adding steps on the line. Pre-portioned dollops drop straight into a packaged meal, and bulk tubs keep a busy kitchen moving.
What flavors can you make?
Just about anything. For fillings: honey vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin, caramel, and white chocolate for desserts; Latin-inspired butters for chicken, pork, and steak; cream cheese, shrimp scampi, or garlic herb for seafood. For toppings: barbecue or blue cheese for burgers, and fruit, chocolate, or maple-bourbon for desserts. If you have a flavor in mind, our R&D team can develop it.
How do they come packaged?
Two main ways. Pre-portioned dollops come ready to drop into a dish or a packaged meal, or you can order a base in tubs and mix in your own extras. We’ll set the format around how your kitchen or line runs.
Do you offer plant-based or non-dairy fillings and toppings?
We do. Alongside our dairy lineup, we make plant-based and non-dairy options, and you can mix in extras like mustard, ginger, or flaxseed for another layer of flavor. Share what your customers are looking for, and we’ll formulate a solution to it.
Can you freeze toppings and fillings?
Yes! These products can be heated and thawed as recommended. We recommend storing them in a refrigerated area.
What makes Butterball® Farms fillings and toppings worth it?
Flavor your guests remember, made to taste the same every time, in a facility holding a BRC-AA rating. For your kitchen that means fewer steps, steady results, and a finish you can put your name behind. That reliability is the value our customers come back for.
