I just finished making my own butter and wanted to share the gift
It´s great and I never thought it would be so easy!!!


All you need is a whipping / heavy cream and some standing mixer (you could probably do it by shaking the cream in a jar with some marble or whisking by hand too, it would just take longer).


You will make 80g of butter out of 250ml cream.

Put the whipping / heavy cream into mixer and that´s it.

Normally you would stop when it´s whipped enough to put as a topping on a cake (forming soft peaks), but now just continue whipping.

After a while there will be a milky liquid separating from a buttery stuff. Whipp until the butter is solid, strain the liquid out (I keep it to drink as a fat milk) and put the butter into bowl with cold water.

Rinse the butter in the water, add fresh water and do this until you are rinsing out clear water.

-- the reason for this rinsing is, that in the case you want to store it for longer time, leaving some milky parts in butter would sour it up after couple of days...
-- so if you want to keep the butter just for a day or two, you dont need to rinse it too much.

When it´s done, you can add salt, some herbs or leave it as it is.

The quality of butter of course depends on the quality of the heavy cream. I get fresh one, without any conservats or so and the butter is just yummy...

I've always known that if you whip cream long enough, you get butter, but I've never actually tried it.

Just curious, is it tastier than the butter you get at the store? Surely it can't be much cheaper, considering the price of cream (around here anyway) and it surely isn't more convenient. I'm just wondering what the motivation would be to make your own butter when it's readily available and affordable at the grocery store right next to the cream. Or, I see you're not from the States, perhaps it's more expensive where you shop?

I tried it on purpose and was just too happy that it came out perfect

I guess you can buy the butter just as you can buy cream... your choice. I can get fresh cream without conservants easily, but with butter = the choice is limited.

This way I know it´s pure butter, nothing else, plus I like making anything I can at home

As with the price - the real butters are very expensive. On the other hand, I dont eat that much butter that it would ruin my account, but as I said - I like doing things like this