Global Butter Blocks Market: Global Size, Trends, Competitive, and Historical

Butter blocks are solid, pre-formed pieces of butter made by churning cream with added salt into a dense, uniform shape that is easy to store, handle, and use. They are a traditional dairy product valued for rich flavour, high fat content, and versatility in cooking and baking. Butter blocks are widely used in household kitchens and commercial food production to provide consistent quality and measurement for recipes. Butter blocks are essential in creating laminated doughs (croissants, puff pastry), enriching doughs for brioche, cookies, and improving texture in pie crusts and tarts. These butter blocks used for sautéing, pan-frying, roasting vegetables, or finishing sauces, where butter’s milk fats enhance flavour. Commercial kitchens, bakeries, and food producers use standardized butter blocks for consistent recipes. For instance, in August 2024, Arla Food launched Lurpak a plant-based butter brand which aims to meet the changing consumer demands and new consumption habits. In addition, Lactalis Group acquired Fonterra’s for its consumer dairy ingredients business including Anchor and Western Star butter brands that aims to strengthening its presence in butter block supply chains across Oceania, South Asia. Thus, industry players continue to invest in new innovations to acquire large consumer based that drive the growth of the market.