I've actually posted before on making homemade butter but I thought this time I would post step by step pictures! There isn't much to making butter. You just have one ingredient and you only do one thing! But I thought it might help first time butter makers by being able to see pictures! Making butter isn't really a frugal activity unless you want to make herbed butter for a gift or if you can get free cream. I only made butter yesterday because I needed some buttermilk and I had extra cream!
Put cream in a bowl. It can be fresh or from the store, I've tried it both ways.
Use your electric mixer and mix mix mix! The cream will start to foam up.
The cream will puff up really big. My bowl wasn't really big enough to handle the amount of cream I used. I made a mess:)
The cream will start forming soft peaks. This is the "whipped cream" stage. If you just want to use the whipped cream you can add a little sugar at this point and be done. (yum!)
Keep on mixing! My electric mixer got really hot since I'd already been using it all afternoon so I stuck my cream in the blender. Works the same way! After the "whipping cream" stage the cream will start to look grainy. Just keep on mixing, eventually you will see the butter form and the buttermilk coming off.
After the grainy looking butter has formed, use your hand and squeeze the buttermilk off the butter. At this point you can mix in herbs if you'd like.
Put the butter in a container and voila!
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hopefully this comment doesn’t appear multiple times (it seems to freeze once i try to post my comment.. not sure if it’s actually posting), but all I truly wanted to say was great post and thanks for sharing.
I actually came here seeing as this particular blog site was tweeted by a woman I had been following and i’m happy I made it here.
Have you tried using a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer? It’s a lot easier. You just put your milk in set the kitchen aid on low and walk away till it gets to the whipped cream stage. I never buy butter if I can get the cream cheaper.
I have a recipe listed on here also where I make it with the blender and that’s how I make it about 99% of the time:)
Growing up we had a small farm with a great milking cow. We always had homemade butter. Ahh brings back such great memories~
Is the cream being used whipping cream or another type of cream? I looks pretty yellow so I was wondering. Love your recipes!
I use the cream off the top of my whole milk so it tends to be more yellow than the normal cream from the store. But yes the equivalent would be whipping or heavy cream.
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