Silver Spoon Cafe Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Butter Spread (copycat recipe)

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This Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Butter Spread is a rich, flavorful copycat of the beloved Silver Spoon Café favorite. It's creamy and buttery, and loaded with my favorite flavors of garlic and fresh herbs, it’s perfect for spreading on warm bread, bagels, or crackers.

Looking for dinners or side dishes to serve with this cream cheese spread? Try my Bahama Breeze Jerk Chicken Pasta, the BEST Risotto with Shrimp, or my One Pan Creamy Roast Chicken and Veggies!

overhead view of garlic herb butter cream cheese spread in small bowl and a plate of bread with some spread on one piece

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🩷 What you'll love about this recipe
🥘 Recipe Ingredients
📝 Ingredient Notes
📋 How to Make Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Spread Step-By-Step
💡 Recipe Tips
🫙 Storage & Reheating
🧂Additions & Substitutions
❓Your questions answered
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This recipe is a bit of a nostalgic recipe for me. It's from a restaurant called Silver Spoon Cafe (no longer in existence) that my friends and I used to love to visit as teenagers. They gave you warm bread with the most herby, delicious garlic and herb cheese spread. We would eat so much of it before our food came that we were pretty much full by the time any other food came to the table. I hope you love it as much as we did!

🩷 What you'll love about this recipe

▪️It's so easy! It takes mere minutes to put this quick herb spread together. This is one of my favorite recipes to pull out when I need something super quick and also delicious!

▪️Putting this on your dinner table with bread is the perfect choice to instantly elevate your meal. No one will know how simple this is.

▪️It takes only four ingredients to make this (not counting salt).

🥘 Recipe Ingredients

You’ll need the following ingredients to make this amazing garlic herb butter recipe from the Silver Spoon restaurant.

ingredients needed to make garlic herb cream cheese butter spread

📝 Ingredient Notes

butter - use real butter and unsalted, so you can control the amount of salt

cream cheese - use the full fat version, regular cream cheese

garlic cloves - please use fresh garlic - the jar garlic doesn't have the same flavor and the water in it will not allow the spread to get creamy and fluffy

fresh chives - again, use fresh! The main focus of this recipe is the fresh garlic and fresh chives so don't use dried here.

📋 How to Make Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Spread Step-By-Step

Here are some visual instructions. Full instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the Recipe Card below.

Let the butter and the cream cheese sit out for about an hour or two and come to room temperature.

Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl. I like to use a stand mixer for this, but you can also use a hand mixer.

all ingredients added to bowl in stand mixer

Mix until all ingredients are blended together and the butter spread is whipped and fluffy. Do not overtax, as it may begin to separate. Stop right when it is to this point shown below.

whipped cream cheese butter garlic and herbs in stand mixer

Serve with your favorite warm bread or spread on your morning bagel.

very closeup view of cream cheese spread in white small bowl

💡 Recipe Tips

Prep all of the ingredients in advance, but wait until right before serving to mix everything together. This spread will harden back up in the refrigerator and you won't get the original, creamy fluffy texture if you store it.

Leave the cream cheese and the butter out on the counter an hour before preparing this spread. It needs to be room temperature in order to get the creamy, fluffy texture.

Make Ahead Tip
Prep all of the ingredients before hand. Measure and leave out the cream cheese and butter 1-2 hours before you want to serve it. Chop the garlic and the chives. If everything is ready to go, this will take minutes to prepare.

🫙 Storage & Reheating

Storage: Store this in an airtight container in the fridge for 7-9 days. It will be a bit crumbly if you try to use this right out of the fridge. It's fine to use, but the texture is very different. To get the same fluffy texture, you need to take this out of the refrigerator an hour before you want to use. I remix in the stand mixer or with a hand mixer.

Freezing: This does not work well after freezing. I do not recommend.

🧂Additions & Substitutions

Green onions, or shallots instead of chives. Mince very finely.
Garlic powder if you are out of fresh garlic. Try 1 teaspoon to start and taste to see if you need more.
Add black pepper or white pepper if you like.
Parmesan cheese would be an excellent addition.
Another great addition would be fresh parsley.

❓Your questions answered

Can I make this garlic cream cheese spread vegan?

Yes! Substitute vegan cream cheese and vegan butter and this will be 100% vegan.

closeup view of one slice of baguette with garlic herb butter cream cheese spread on it

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I hope you love this Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Butter Spread Recipe! If you make it, be sure to leave a rating so I know how you liked it! Happy eating!

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