Homemade butter tastes delicious. You can use this homemade butter recipe to prepare fresh butter for baking or add in a few herbs and make delicious flavored butter for your homemade breads.
The basic homemade butter recipe is very easy to make. All you need is heavy whipping cream and a stand mixer. However, make sure that the cream is refrigerated and cold. It will take about 15 to 20 minutes of whipping it to get butter from the cream. Sometimes, it can take longer so be patient. You should hear sloshing sounds when cream separates.
First, the cream turns into whipped cream that you can use to frost cakes with. As you continue whipping, the fat will separate from the liquid. The fat is butter. Once you see the fat separate, add a little ice-cold water and give it a quick stir. The butter will be ready in no time.
The liquid is buttermilk and can be used in a variety of recipes. Or you could just drink it 🙂
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In the recipe below, I have used 3 pints of heavy cream to make 3 different flavors. If you want to make just one flavor or plain butter, feel free to use just one pint of heavy cream.
Homemade Butter Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 pints Heavy whipping cream cold
- 4 tbsp water ice cold
Garlic butter
- 3 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 1 tsp parsley finely chopped
- salt to taste
Herb butter
- 1 tsp parsley finely chopped
- 1 tsp rosemary finely chopped
- 1 tsp thyme finely chopped
- 1 lemon rind
- salt to taste
Honey-almond butter
- 4 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp sliced almonds
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Pour cold heavy cream into the stand mixer bowl.
- Mix at medium high for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- The fat will separate as butter.
- Add cold water to speed the separation.
- Pour the liquid to use as buttermilk in recipes.
- Wash the butter in cold water.
- Squeeze out all water from the butter. This is your plain unsalted butter.
- Divide the butter into 3 parts.
Garlic butter
- In the first part, mix garlic, parsley and salt.
Herb butter
- In the second part, add parsley, rosemary, thyme, lemon rind and salt.
Honey-Almond butter
- In the last part, mix in almonds, honey and salt.
Storing
- Shape each part into a log or press it into a container.
- Refrigerate to use for up to 3 months.
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It was easy and simple to make. My son loved it. Thank you!
Flavored butter makes a wonderful side dish!
Love all the variations especially the herb butter