Homemade Butter!

Have you ever looked at the ingredients in butter?

Go to your fridge now and look.

Is it really even butter? Does it contain vegetable oil?

More than likely you are using fake butter or butter with a ton of ingredients.

I have good news for you!

You can make your own butter!

It is so easy!!

 And guess what.. It takes a whopping ONE ingredient!!
Heavy whipping cream

I am using my KitchenAid mixer (with whisk attachment) but you can also make it in a blender

 

Pour all of you cream into the mixing bowl

 

Mix! Start slow so that it doesn't splash out.

Once it gets a little thicker you can kick it up to 6.

Keep mixing until it turns into a whipped cream consistency

at this point you could stop and add powdered sugar and vanilla to make it into whipped cream.

 

 

 

Keep mixing until the liquid and butter chunks separate

 

You are going to drain the liquid but you want to save it!

The buttermilk can be used for buttermilk biscuits or buttermilk pancakes 

 

I put a container under my strainer to catch all the buttermilk

 

 

 

Mix a little more to make sure all the buttermilk has been mixed out

 

push your spoon on the butter to get more buttermilk out

It is VERY important that you get all the buttermilk out because it will go bad earlier if you don't.

 

Buttermilk!

 

Soak it in water to get the buttermilk off the outside

 

Here is the end result!

It looks extremely yellow in this picture.

 

And naturally I had to make some homemade bread with my awesome $10 bread maker

The little window on top of the bread maker

As a kid my mom used to make bread in her bread machine and I always loved looking through the little window and watching it mix and bake, this brings back fond memories of my childhood :)