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Homemade Butter

Homemade Butter is one of the easiest and quickest basic preparations of all. In about 20 minutes, starting with simple Fresh Liquid Cream, you can make excellent DIY Butter.
Recipe Homemade Butter
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 20 minutes
  • Servings for 1 block

Homemade Butter is one of the easiest and quickest basic preparations of all. In about 20 minutes, starting from simple Fresh Heavy Cream, you can obtain truly delicious and natural DIY Butter, just like the old-fashioned way.

Making Homemade Butter is really easy. It involves whipping Fresh Heavy Cream until it breaks down and continuing the process until the fat (the Butter) and the liquid part (the Buttermilk) separate. With this simple preparation, you’ll get two very useful ingredients for your recipes.

Buttermilk is an excellent ingredient for both sweet and savory recipes. You should know that there are several ways to prepare it, and in our recipe on How to Make Buttermilk, you can discover the most commonly used and easiest methods.

To make Butter at home, you’ll need to follow very few precautions: use cold Fresh Heavy Cream with a good fat percentage and chill the bowl and whisk attachments of your stand mixer in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. This way, the cream will whip much faster.

With our recipe, you’ll discover How to Make Butter in an easy and quick way, but if you want, with our useful guide, you can also discover How to Substitute Butter in Desserts.

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  1. To prepare Homemade Butter, pour very cold Fresh Liquid Cream (which should be neither sweetened nor salted) into a very cold stand mixer bowl and start whipping. When the cream is well whipped, continue until you see the fat part (which will begin to stick to the whisk) separating from the liquid part.
  2. When the fat (your butter) has completely separated from the liquid part (buttermilk), stop the stand mixer. Carefully remove all the butter, place it in a fine-mesh strainer over a bowl and, using a spatula or your hands, extract as much liquid as possible that might have remained. This is the most important step because the more buttermilk you manage to remove, the longer you’ll be able to preserve the butter.
  3. After squeezing it well, place your butter in a silicone mold, and use the spatula to compact it thoroughly to achieve the most precise shape possible. And there you have it – your Homemade Butter is ready to be stored in the refrigerator. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!
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Variations and Alternatives

Homemade Butter has a more delicate taste than store-bought butter, so you can enhance it by adding finely ground salt, kneading it well before shaping. Using the same procedure, you can prepare various flavored butters (compound butters) such as Rosemary Butter, Thyme Butter, Sage Butter, and many other variations.

Tips

To prepare perfect Homemade Butter, it’s crucial to use very fresh heavy cream with a high fat content, and the stand mixer bowl should be well chilled. The buttermilk obtained during the butter-making process can be stored in the refrigerator for 1-2 days and can be used as a milk substitute in various desserts and cakes. If you use an electric hand mixer instead of a stand mixer, the process will take a bit longer but will yield the same results.

Storage

Homemade Butter, if properly drained of all buttermilk, can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about 1 month, or even longer if frozen.

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