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.
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Concept
Bring us a flavor idea — or a blank slate. We help shape it into a clear, workable brief.
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Development
Our experts dial in taste, texture, and format through hands-on, iterative R&D.
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Full-scale production
We scale the winning recipe into consistent, repeatable batches, ready for your kitchens.
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.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes! These products can be heated and thawed as recommended. We recommend storing them in a refrigerated area.
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.
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.
