Top Your Steak With the Perfect Blue Cheese Compound Butter

Gather the ingredients. In a large bowl, mash the butter with a potato masher or just squish it up with your hands. You can even cream the butter using the paddle attachment of a stand mixer—but the goal is just to get the butter soft so you can incorporate the blue cheese. Add the blue cheese and continue mashing, squishing, or mixing the butter until it is fully mixed. Spread out a large (1-foot or larger) square of plastic wrap across your work surface, then scoop the mixed butter onto the plastic wrap. Roll the butter into a cylinder inside the plastic wrap. Tie the excess plastic wrap at the ends of the cylinder into a knot, or just use little pieces of string to tie off the ends. You can even make a string out of a short section of plastic wrap and roll it into a little rope. Chill or freeze the blue cheese butter until needed. Serve the blue cheese butter in thick slices on top of a hot, freshly grilled steak or vegetables.