Homemade Butter
Simple one-ingredient butter made at home, easily
Equipment
- 1 food processor or mixer with whisk attachment
Ingredients
- 1 L Heavy cream You can also use heavy whipping cream or whipping cream
- ½ tsp salt (or to taste) Optional
Instructions
- Pour 1 L Heavy cream into the bowl of your food processor with the blade inside and put the lid on.
- Turn the processor on high and process until the cream separates and you see butter and buttermilk. If cream spatters along the sides you can stop and push it all down into the processor then return to processing it.
- Once you have butter and buttermilk you will need to rinse the butter in cold water to remove any remaining milk. To do this prepare a medium bowl with cold water (I like to add a few ice cubes to keep it cold while i rinse the butter).
- Strain the contents of the processor bowl with a sieve. Reserve the buttermilk in a bowl or jar and place in your refrigerator for another use. Take the butter solid and put it in the cold water and begin to squeeze it to remove any buttermilk. The water will become cloudy, change the water if necessary.
- Once you feel you have removed as much buttermilk from the butter as you can you can remove it to a paper towel and dry it, pressing down.
- If you want salted butter add it in at this time and knead it through the butter.
- Form the butter into a log or whatever desired shape you like, wrap in parchment paper and clear plastic and refrigerate or freeze for later use.
- if you want to make a flavored or compound butter, add whatever herbs etc. you want when you add the salt then proceed as before.
- You should end up with a slightly softer and creamier butter than store bought.
Notes
When I find heavy whipping cream on sale I stock up and make homemade butter. It turns out beautifully and it's more economical and more tasty than store bought butter.