Homemade butter is delicious, easy and fun to make, here's all you'll need:
1 pint heavy whipping cream
Large bowl of ice water
Salt to taste
A stand mixer, hand mixer or blender, or even a jar (see below photo) with a tight fitting lid.
This process will only take you15 Minutes and you'll get about 8 oz of homemade butter.
Here's what you do:
Pour a pint of heavy cream or whipping cream into your mixer or into a jar with a tight fitting lid.
If using a mixer use the low speed at first then increase to medium speed.
If you're using a jar, start shaking (you'll need some serious shaking motion if using the jar method.)
At first, the cream will turn into whipped cream with soft, then stiff peaks, don't stop there.
Keep going until the cream breaks.
If you’re shaking the cream by hand, you’ll hear a swishing sound and see the liquid,
you'll begin to feel something more solid hit the sides of the jar.
If you’re using a stand mixer, you’ll see the butter clinging to the beaters.
This usually takes anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes -- by hand may take longer.
In this process, you are separating the butter fat from the liquid.
Once the butter has become solid, pour off the buttermilk and save it for baking.
Place the butter into a bowl where you can rinse the butter pouring ice water over it and pressing the remaining buttermilk out with a small spatula or a spoon.
Pour off the water and do it again.
Keep rinsing and pressing the butter with the ice water until the water runs clear.
The, add some salt if you like and work that through the butter.
That's it!
