Homemade Butter
We’re going back to basics today with how to make homemade butter with just one ingredient. It’s incredibly easy with little effort and what you’re left with is softened butter that’s recipe ready with endless applications. The best parts are that you can control the quality and quantity and create some really unique butter compounds. I personally love this homemade butter with salt and rosemary on some of J’s rustic breads or copious amounts of a cinnamon sugar or berry blend on brioche.
Homemade Butter
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: ½ lb/8 oz
Ingredients
- 2 cups cold heavy cream
- 1-2 ts ice water
Instructions
- If using a jar with a lid, shake the cream vigorously. You will bypass 3 distinctive stages: soft peaks, stiff peaks, then finally, the milk solids separating from the buttermilk. I show you in the video above how I made mine with a food processor {the easier/less elbow grease method}. You can also use a stand/hand mixer or blender as well.
- When you reach the final stage, drain it through a fine mesh strainer and push out all the buttermilk* you can. The dryer the better.
- Return it back to the jar and add 1-2 ts ice water and shake again until it’s fully incorporated.
- Wrap in plastic and chill.**
Notes
*The buttermilk left behind is sweeter and isn’t of the thick consistency you think of. I like to use mine in pancake/crepe/waffle batters.
**The shelf life of your homemade butter greatly depends on how thoroughly the buttermilk has been extracted which is why the “washing” is important. By chilling well produced butter, you can expect 2-3 weeks out of it whereas if enough buttermilk is left behind, it will spoil within a week. Also, I would recommend keeping your homemade butter chilled or use it immediately after making so it’s fresh, softened, and recipe ready.
**The shelf life of your homemade butter greatly depends on how thoroughly the buttermilk has been extracted which is why the “washing” is important. By chilling well produced butter, you can expect 2-3 weeks out of it whereas if enough buttermilk is left behind, it will spoil within a week. Also, I would recommend keeping your homemade butter chilled or use it immediately after making so it’s fresh, softened, and recipe ready.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster
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I make butter often in my Thermomix because it takes less than 3 minutes and is SO much better than what I can buy. It IS more expensive to make butter at home but the taste difference is worth it, especially if you’ve made homemade bread to go with it.
yay yay yayy-making basics from scratch is so fun!
I often accidentally made butter when whipping cream when I was younger
Butter makes me happy
Haha… Seeing home made butter brings me back to my cheffing apprentice days, I worked at a convention centre, I was whipping cream to do a dollop of cream on 2000 dessert plates, whipped it so good I made my first batch of butter. Gah! Soooo much trouble. LOL! But lesson learned, never did that again.
Love your recipe, if butter was a thing of my 2015, I would be all over this.
My food tech teacher made this in class and it was so cool!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
mo betta butter! haha then u even get buttermilk to use in ur pancakes!
Love that you made homemade butter! I had no idea you could make it in your food processor – that’s awesome! Would love to try it one day!
Look at you!! I love real butter
Wow! I wouldn’t have thought that homemade butter is that easy and quick to make. Thanks for sharing.
I wouldn’t have thought that homemade butter is that easy and quick to make. I’ll have to try it out sometime, thanks for sharing!
Homemade butter is an amazing thing! Thanks for sharing this post.
wow, never know this method of homemade butter before, tempting to try!!!
This is incredible and so easy!Wow! Gotta try it soon
Woohoo!!! Love basics and DIY stuff. This is pretty handy, Angela! Thanks!!!
Julie & Alesah
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Back to basics indeed! I’ve never made my own butter, but I WANT to! Thanks for sharing your recipe and video. You make me feel like I CAN do it! Love these “grassroots” kind of recipes.
YOu made HOMEMADE BUTTER. I am so impressed!
Nothing beats home made butter, Angela (pun intended, lol)
Thanks for sharing…
ooh! Don’t think i’ll be making my own butter anytime soon! But this was still interesting to watch!
I’ve been wanting to make my own butter but haven’t get the chance to. After seeing how easy it is, there’s no excuse not to try it out.
Who doesn’t love homemade butter. I am so in love with this post
Whoaaa! This is really cool! I didn’t know if was possible to make my own butter, thanks for the video!
Nice. This looks like a real treat.
Makes me happy too!