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Easy Homemade Butter

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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: meal prep
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Video

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Container of Heavy Cream

Method
 

  1. Pour the heavy cream into the bowl of your mixer.
  2. Start mixing on medium speed. After a few minutes, you’ll see it turn into whipped cream.
  3. Keep going. Soon, the whipped cream will deflate and separate into butter solids and buttermilk. Once the butter clumps together, turn off the mixer and pour off the buttermilk (save it for baking!).
  4. Rinse the butter under cold ice water while pressing it gently with a spatula to remove any remaining buttermilk.
  5. Shape, sprinkle with salt if desired, and enjoy.

    Notes

    Using a mixer is the easiest and fastest method if you have a stand mixer, though a hand mixer works too.
    Other Ways to Make Homemade Butter
    1. Mason Jar Method
    Fill a mason jar halfway with heavy cream.Close it tightly and shake, shake, shake!After a few minutes, it’ll become whipped cream, then thickened cream, and eventually butter. Drain off the buttermilk and rinse the butter under cold water.

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