Homemade Butter

5 from 1 vote

Making butter at home is so much easier than you might think, and you only need one (or two) ingredients! It's delicious on your favorite breads, pancakes, or baked potatoes as is, or you can easily flavor it into different types of butter like garlic butter, or honey butter.

Prep Time20

Total Time20

Course: How To

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Homemade Butter, How to

Servings: TBS

Calories: 101kcal

Ingredients

2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
1/8 tsp salt (to taste)

Instructions

Pour the cream into the bowl of a stand mixer. 2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
Turn your mixer on low speed and let it mix until it starts to thicken.
Increase the speed to medium high, and let it continue mixing until it has stiff peaks.
Keep the mixture mixing until the cream breaks and starts to separate into butter and butter milk.
Lower the speed to medium low, and continue mixing.
Loosely cover your stand mixer with a towel over the top to soak up some of the splashing buttermilk.
Once the butter has solidified and is sticking to the mixer whisk, pour off the buttermilk into a separate container.
Scoop the butter into a bowl with very cold water and ice.
Press the butter between your hands, kneading it as you work it with your hands to get the extra buttermilk out.
Drain the water and repeat, until the water is clear, and no more buttermilk is coming out.
Pat the butter dry with a towel
Add the soft butter to a bowl and add a little salt. Mix it into the butter evenly. 1/8 tsp salt
Add the butter to a bowl, or shape it between parchment paper into a log.
Wrap it tightly and place it in the fridge. Chill for at least 1 hour, up to 2 weeks in the fridge, and use as desired.

Notes

Double the Recipe - You can use 32oz (Or 4 cups) of Heavy Whipping Cream for the recipe. This will take longer to mix in your stand mixer, and may be a bit more messy though, but just keep going until the fats separate from the liquid.

Recipe Yield - This recipe yields about 6.5 to 7oz of butter. One stick of butter (1/2 cup) is 4 oz, so this will make a little less than a 2 sticks of butter, or 1/2 of a pound box like you'd buy from the grocery store. (See note above for doubling).

In a Blender - You can also whip the butter in a blender. This is nice because the lid will keep it from making less of a mess.

In a Jar - You can shake your cream in a jar until it separates, this will be a good arm workout, so do it with your kids, or grand kids for an activity and rotate through everyone so your arms can get a break.

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