Homemade Butter (One Ingredient)
Who could have thought that the process of making butter is so easy and simple! With one single ingredient and two simple steps you will have the creamiest butter better than store-bought.
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream, fresh cream, or double cream.
- ½ teaspoon salt optional
Instructions
- Pour the heavy cream in a bowl of stand mixer and start by whipping the cream at medium speed.
- When the cream begins to thicken, accelerate the speed to medium-high.
- When it becomes rough. The cream will eventually seperate after 5 minutes, and when the butter and buttermilk are completely seperated save the liquid (buttermilk) and place the butter in a mesh seive.
- Squeeze the butter tightly with your hands to remove the excess buttermilk, then place the butter in a bowl filled with ice-cold water to further drain it from buttermilk residue.
- Repeat the process until the water is clear.
- If you want salted butter, then you can add a pinch of salt before placing it in an air-tight container and storing it in the fridge.
Notes
- Use ice-cold water to rinse the butter.
- You must make sure that the cream you are using for the butter is at room temperature. It makes it faster for the butter to seperate from the buttermilk.
- Squeeze and knead the butter to make sure that you fully drained it from excess buttermilk.
- If you want to store the butter, then you should rinse it completely from buttermilk using cold water to prevent it from turning rancid.
- Save the fresh buttermilk, it will keep well in the fridge. You can use it later in other recipes.