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My Perfect Popovers! Light, airy, buttery, and delicious. Made with butter, warm milk, eggs and flour, they’re the simplest holiday roll to make! Just add all ingredients to a blender and blend. That’s it! Serve while they’re steaming with my salted honey butter or cranberry butter. They’ll melt in you mouth. A wonderful holiday roll.
Perfect Popovers have been a Thanksgiving tradition in our house now for the last 13+ years. It’s so hard to believe, but I first made this recipe in 8th grade and it hasn’t changed since!
I knew I wanted to highlight this popover recipe this year. These popovers have certainly become such a loved and adored part of our Thanksgiving table. The one downside is that you can’t make them ahead, however, they’re the easiest holiday bread you’ll make!
All you need is a blender, butter, milk, eggs, flour, and salt. Literally, the least fancy ingredients, and items we all have in the kitchen.
Here’s how they’re made
Step 1: begin warming the pan
Position the oven rack in the lower 1/3 of the oven. Popovers rise a lot so it’s important to give them room in your oven to grow tall and pouffy.
Add a pat of butter to each popover cup. I recommend using high-quality European butter with 80% butterfat. This will brown beautifully and taste wonderful.
Place the popover pan with the pats of butter into the oven to preheat. Heating the popover pan ensures the popovers will pop in the oven. This is the exact 6-cup popover pan that I have and love. Here is the 12-cup popover pan if you want to double the recipe. If you don’t have a popover pan you can use a standard-size muffin pan, but the popovers will be mini popovers. Still delicious, just smaller.
Step 2: mix the batter
In your blender, mix the room-temperature eggs and warm milk. Sometimes I’ll also add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, which we find super delicious. Especially special for the holidays.
My biggest tip for creating perfect popovers is to use warm milk and room-temperature eggs with absolutely no chill on them.
Do not take the milk and eggs from the fridge and use them. Cold ingredients will give you dense popovers. Warm ingredients will give you light, airy, and perfect popovers.
To quickly bring eggs to room temperature submerge them in hot water for five or so minutes. This warms them right up! For the milk, I warm it in the microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Blend the milk and eggs for 30 seconds. Add the flour, salt, and melted butter. Now blend one more time.
Step 3: bake
Grab the pan from the oven, divide the batter between the cups and bake. Start out with the oven super hot, then reduce the temp to finish the cooking.
About 40 minutes later you’ll have perfect popovers. Light, airy, pouffy, and delicious!
Step 4: the butters
You can serve these with salted butter and call it a day. Or step things up with my honey butter, which is probably my favorite. It’s salted butter, honey, and then a bit of vanilla. SO YUMMY on top of a steaming hot popover.
Or, if you have cranberry sauce, make my cranberry butter. Salted butter, leftover cranberry sauce, and honey.
Here’s how I make these with success on Thanksgiving. Bake the popovers as soon as you pull the turkey out of the oven. The turkey needs time to rest, so it’s the perfect time to bake the popovers. By the time they bake up, you should have the turkey carved, the gravy made, and be ready for eating.
These are actually timed perfectly, which is why I can get away with making them every year! I suggest doubling the recipe. Because everyone enjoys at least two (possibly even three). Plus they’re certainly great for breakfast the next morning too!
Looking for other holiday bread recipes? Try these.
Salted Honey Butter Parker House Rolls
Perfect Popovers with Cranberry Butter
Pull-Apart Garlic Butter Bread Wreath
Salted Rosemary Popovers with Honey Butter
Parmesan Popovers with Crispy Sage Garlic Butter
Lastly, if you make these Perfect Popovers be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!
Perfect Popovers with Cranberry Butter
Servings: 6 popovers or 10 mini popovers
Calories Per Serving: 234 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
- 6 teaspoons salted butter
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk, warmed
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon salted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- 1. Position a rack in the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 450°. 2. Place 1 teaspoon of butter in a 6-cup standard popover pan. Alternatively, you can use a 12-cup muffin pan and make 10 mini popovers. Transfer the popover pan to the oven. After 5 minutes, remove the pan from the oven.3. In a blender, combine the milk and eggs, blend for 30 seconds, until frothy. Add the flour, salt, and melted butter. Blend another 30 to 60 seconds until combined with no large clumps. 4. Evenly divide the batter between the popover cups, filling them about 3/4 of the way full. Transfer to the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 350°. Bake another 15-20 minutes, until puffed, golden and crisp. 5. Serve immediately with salted butter, honey butter, or cranberry butter. Cranberry Butter: Mix together 6 tablespoons of room-temperature salted butter and 1/3 cup leftover cranberry sauce or cranberry jam. Add 1-2 tablespoons of honey and a pinch of sea salt.Salted Honey Butter: Mix together 6 tablespoons of room-temperature salted butter, 3 tablespoons of honey, and a pinch of sea salt. If desired, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Serve popovers with extra honey too!
Notes
Eggs: to quickly bring eggs to room temperature submerge in hot water for 5 minutes.Â
Love these!! I make the honey butter with them and they are so delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Taylor,
I appreciate you making this recipe and your feedback! So glad it was enjoyed:) Have a great week! xT
These were so good and easy!!! I will add a pinch of salt next time but there will definitely be a next time. I splurged and ordered the popover pan from Amazon and it worked perfect. I have been so impressed with all of HBH recipes! They have been a hit with my family and they are not easy to please.
Hey Stephanie,
I appreciate you making this recipe and your feedback! So glad it was enjoyed:) Have a great week! xT
Thanks for the great recipe! My popovers came out absolutely delicious and beautiful 🤩
Hey Bree,
Happy Saturday!! Thanks a bunch for making this recipe and your comment! So glad to hear it was enjoyed:)
Insanely gorgeous and delicious. I had tested another popover recipe a week ago and they were good but didn’t pop! This recipe is perfect and you must read all the notes because they are key! Including wait til you take the turkey out of the oven and put them in so they are hot. These were movie star popovers. (Strongly recommend doubling recipe and getting popover pans). All our guests sort of gasped. Thank you so much!
Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for making this recipe and your comment, so glad it was enjoyed! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! xx
Popovers are my mom’s favorite and she hasn’t had one for years. I made these today (Thanksgiving) as a surprise for her with the cranberry butter. They were awesome! I was sure I would screw them up, but the only thing I did was burn the butter in the tins. I restarted and nailed it. I made them in jumbo muffin pans. I will make these again and again and cannot even tell you how happy I was seeing my mom enjoy them.
Hey Elizabeth,
Thanks for making this recipe and your comment, so glad it was enjoyed! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! xx
Made these today for thanksgiving! Used skim milk instead of whole milk. Turned out so well! Would easily make again
Hi Courtney,
Thanks for making this recipe and your comment, so glad it was enjoyed! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! xx
Hi! If you make these in regular muffin tins, so you adjust the timing that they cook?
Hi Jaime,
You can follow the recipe as written:) Let me know if you give this recipe a try, I hope you love it! xT
I have a similar recipe that my mom made but I haven’t been able to get it to work like she did — I always figured it was an altitude thing (we’re at 7000 feet). You don’t mention altitude — so no changes at altitude?
Hi Kathy,
You should be able to follow this recipe as written without any issues:) Please let me know if you give the recipe a try, I hope you love it! xT
If I’m using a muffin pan would you adjust the cooking time at all since they’re smaller? Looking forward to making them this week!
Hi Lynsey,
You should be able to follow the recipe and bake time exactly as written:) Please let me know if you have any other questions, I hope you love this recipe! xx
Best popovers ever <3
Hey Kimberly,
Happy Sunday!! Thanks so much for giving this recipe a try, I appreciate you making it and your feedback! x
You’re showing them in mugs? Do you or can you cook them on mugs
Hi Janet,
For best results, I would use the popover pans:) I did the mugs for fun! I hope you love this recipe! xx
Can I make these a day ahead and reheat them?
Thank you!
Hi Amy,
So sorry, you do not want to make these in advance:) Here’s how I make these with success on Thanksgiving. Bake the popovers as soon as you pull the turkey out of the oven. The turkey needs time to rest, so it’s the perfect time to bake the popovers. By the time they bake up, you should have the turkey carved, the gravy made, and be ready for eating. I hope this helps! xx