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    Easy Homemade Butter in 10 Minutes! (Video)

    May 12, 2021 By Brandy 1 Comment

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    Making your own butter is easy to do and a fun project for kids. I'll show you how to make easy homemade butter in 10 minutes using a mixer. You can also make it in a jar!

    You'll love serving your homemade butter with slices of our favorite crusty bread, Amish dinner rolls or banana bread!

    bowl of homemade butter

    Watch our step by step video!

    Raise you hand if you remember making butter in a baby food jar in elementary school! Making your own butter is literally just shaking up cream until it separates. So easy. We've made it with the kids using a baby food jar and a marble, and I've made bigger batches using my Kitchenaid. Both ways work great, it just depends on how much you'd like to make.

    bowl of homemade butter

    What is Butter Made Out Of?

    Heavy whipping cream. You can also add a bit of salt. That's it! Butter is made by whipping cream until it goes past the stage of looking like Cool Whip and begins to thicken and separate. Once it separates you're left with bits of solid pieces that, when pressed together, form butter and the liquid that is strained off is buttermilk.

    If you've ever over beaten heavy whipping cream (trying to make whipped cream) and thought you ruined it you didn't! You just made butter instead, and that's good too. 🙂

    two slices of buttered bread next to bowl of homemade butter

    How To Make Easy Homemade Butter Using a KitchenAid or Mixer or Blender

    Because I'm lazy, this is my preferred method for making butter.  I'll show how to make it using a stand mixer, but the process for using your blender is the same. Just blend on med-high. It will go through the same stages (cream, whipped cream, then butter).

    cream poured into stand mixer

    • Pour 2-4 cups of heavy whipping cream into a mixing bowl.
    • Use the whisk attachment and beat on low-med and gradually increasing the speed to med-high as it thickens (if you start out on high the thin cream will spray out of the machine and make a mess).

    mixing bowl with cream

    • The cream will go from looking like cream to whipped cream after a few minutes. Keep mixing!

    mixed butter and cream in bowl

    • After a few more minutes the cream will look yellow and the fat will begin to separate from the buttermilk. Once you see what looks like crumbles of butter sloshing around milk turn the mixer off.

    butter in a strainer being rinsed in sink

    • Pour contents of bowl into a strainer. Place a bowl underneath to catch the buttermilk if you'd like!
    • Remove bowl of buttermilk then run the strainer under COLD water. Press butter with a rubber spatula to shape and rinse it. You want to rinse ALL of the buttermilk off of the butter. I usually rinse and press 2x.

    hands rinsing butter under cold water

    • Mold the butter into a ball shape using your hands and give it one last quick rinse under cold water. You have just made unsalted butter, but I don't like unsalted butter so let's take it up a notch.

    butter in bowl mixing salt in with a spoon

    Sprinkle the butter with salt* and press it into the butter using a spoon before slathering it over slices of our no knead crusty bread!

    *Use ¼-1/2 teaspoon for each cup of butter that you make.

    butter knife with butter on it

    How To Make Butter in a Jar

    Homemade butter in a jar is a great activity for kids. They burn energy and have the perfect amount of butter to use on a few slices of toast.

    1. Fill a small jar halfway with heavy whipping cream and a marble. Add the lid and screw on tight to prevent leaks. Note: a small jar (8 oz. or so) really works best. If you want to make it using a quart jar it will take quite a bit of elbow grease and shaking to make butter. I'd recommend using an electric mixer instead.
    2. Shake rigorously for 5-8 minutes. You'll notice it thickening into a whipped cream consistency after a few minutes. Keep shaking it until you hear/see a lump forming and liquid sloshing around.
    3. Drain off liquid (buttermilk) and remove marble.
    4. Rinse butter under COLD water and press into a ball.
    5. Sprinkle lightly with salt, if desired.

    bowl of homemade butter

    Easy Homemade Butter Recipe

    bowl of homemade butter

    Easy Homemade Butter

    Making your own butter is easy to do and a fun project for kids. I'll show you how to make homemade butter in 10 minutes using a mixer.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Servings: 16
    Calories: 100kcal

    Equipment

    • stand mixer

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
    • ¼ teaspoon salt

    Instructions

    • Pour 2-4 cups of heavy whipping cream into a mixing bowl.
    • Use the whisk attachment and beat on low-med and gradually increasing the speed to med-high as it thickens (if you start out on high the thin cream will spray out of the machine and make a mess).
    • The cream will go from looking like cream to whipped cream after a few minutes. Keep mixing!
    • After another couple of minutes the cream will look yellow and the fat will begin to separate from the buttermilk. Once you see what looks like crumbles of butter sloshing around milk turn the mixer off.
    • Pour contents of bowl into a strainer. Place a bowl underneath to catch the buttermilk if you'd like.
    • Remove bowl of buttermilk then run the strainer under COLD water. Press butter with a rubber spatula to shape and rinse it. You want to rinse ALL of the buttermilk off of the butter. I usually rinse and press 2x.
    • Mold the butter into a ball shape using your hands. You have just made unsalted butter.
    • You can sprinkle the butter with ¼ teaspoon of salt and press it into the butter using a spoon before slathering it over slices of our no knead crusty bread!

    Notes

    Butter can be stored at room temperature or refrigerated.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 100kcal
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    About Brandy

    Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

    Comments

    1. Brandy says

      May 30, 2025 at 12:49 pm

      5 stars
      Hi everyone! Brandy here, and this butter really is the real deal. Just cream and salt. So yummy and easy to make.

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