How to Make Homemade Butter
Grab a jar and some whipping cream. We’re making homemade butter with the kids today, and it’s SO easy and fun!
Want to know a way to impress the heck out of your kids and your friends? Show them how to make Homemade Butter! Making butter is SO easy, but the process never fails to fascinate people! It’s quick and simple, and the results – your homemade butter – are absolutely delicious!
What you’ll need to make homemade butter:
- a glass jar with a lid
- heavy cream (35% whipping cream)
How to make butter in 3 easy steps – FILL, SHAKE, RINSE:
Fill your jar half way with cream.
Put the lid on tightly and SHAKE it like crazy!
Quite quickly, the liquid thickens, and you won’t hear liquid sloshing around anymore. That’s good. Keep shaking! About halfway through, we took the lid off and discovered whipped cream! I had to fight the urge to grab a spoon and dig in!
Keep shaking! After a few more minutes, we heard liquid sloshing around in the jar again. I thought something had gone wrong, and that our thickened mixture had thinned back into cream.
Not to worry! A peak inside revealed that the buttermilk that had separated from the butter! It was ready!!
Pour off the buttermilk, and rinse the remaining butter under cold water, kneading it a little to get all the buttermilk off. This buttermilk can be refrigerated and used for baking.
Now grab something to smear it on. We spread ours on homemade dinner rolls and it was out of this world! You can find my bread machine dinner roll recipe here:
Enjoy it plain, add a pinch of salt, or take it up a notch by stirring in a little grated orange zest or some finely chopped fresh thyme or basil.
Bon Appetit!
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