Learn how to make butter at home in 5 different ways with just one ingredient and a few simple steps! This homemade butter recipe provides rich, creamy, and absolutely delicious results!
💡 Expert Tip: Making butter with a mixer is my favorite method, you can use a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer.
Butter is made by churning cream or milk to separate the fat until it becomes a semi-solid emulsion. Originally the butter churning process was done by hand. Today that process has been replaced with mechanical churns.
There are several different ways to make homemade butter from cream, that we'll show you. You can use a mixer, blender, a jar or you can just do it the long way by hand!
This unsalted butter is perfect for baking. I recommend refrigerating it for about 3 weeks. It can also be stored in the freezer for many months.
Most often made with just heavy cream, butter can be ready to use in all your favorite recipes or spread all over freshly baked bread, in just a matter of minutes!