How to Make Blender Butter
Did you know you could make good old fashioned butter in your blender? This Blender Butter is so easy, creamy, and delicious!
I remember learning hot to make butter as a kid, I think it’s one of those things every kids who grows up in the country does as least once. Same thing goes for churning ice cream and learning how to fish. I also recall that making butter from scratch is a true labor of love, in that it usually took five kids taking turns to get the job done.
It was fun and the butter always turned out excellent. You know, soft, creamy and perfect for spreading. But as much as I like to savor the moment and take the time to enjoy what I’m doing; at this point in my life, I don’t have a spare hour to churn butter. So I’ve found a better, faster, and easier way to make butter right at home.
In your BLENDER!
Making butter in your blender may not be nostalgic, but it gets the job done and the butter is still amazing!
Blender Butter
Ingredients
- 2 cups Heavy Cream
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Pour heavy cream into your blender and blend on high. You’ll want to shut it off periodically to scrap down the sides and mix it up a little.
- Continue blending until finally the heavy cream begins to separate, about 4-5 minutes.
- You’ll see the beginnings of butter and buttermilk, make sure to stir up and continue blending for another 30 seconds or so.
- Remove the lid and pour the buttermilk out into a separate container if you’re going to keep it, or down the sink if you just want to discard it.
- Add salt to taste.
- Blend butter and drain twice more.
- Once you’ve drained as much of the milk as you can, scoop the butter out onto a folded 12 x 12 square of cheese cloth.
- Bring the edges of the cheese cloth together over the butter and squeeze the butter out with your hands.
- Now run the butter under cold water and continue to squeeze. This will allow the butter to last longer.
- Remove from cheese cloth and store in an air tight container for up to three weeks. Do the same thing for the buttermilk if you’re saving that too.
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Made it, easy, and easy clean up, love this.
Did this for my children, almost 40 yrs ago.
Now my grans are learning🥰
Everything Granma
Wow! Lovely butter!! First try…😄
I blended the cream till it turned to butter, then drained the milk. I blended it again to get the extra milk out but instead it turned back into cream. What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
Hi Linda, I’m not sure. I have never heard of butter being turned back into cream unless the buttermilk was added back in.
My blender got hot and it melted it back to cream
I’m sorry that happened to you.
just happened to me, too.
Me, too!
Just because I found this site, other people might have had this problem as I did. It’s actually because the heat of the blender has melted the butter. If you put it in a bowl in the fridge for an hour or so, the butter will separate from the buttermilk when it cools. It hasn’t gone back to cream, so don’t throw it out!
This was so easy! Love the taste of my own butter! We live on a dairy farm so a quicker recipe was very appealing to me 😉 Thank you!
Oh, I’m so glad this made things quicker for you! There’s nothing quite like fresh homemade butter!
Why is it only good for 3 days? Normally I leave my butter out at room temp until it’s used up.
Hi Michelle, it’s good for three weeks, not three days. Store-bought butter can keep in the fridge for months without spoiling, but homemade butter’s shelf life depends on how thoroughly you extract the buttermilk. If a substantial amount of buttermilk remains, it will sour within a week, otherwise homemade butter can keep for up to 2-3 weeks in the fridge. Store-bought butter is pressed with and made with machines to extract all of the butter, most often, homemade butter will have some buttermilk remain. I hope that answers your question.
When I make it in a jar I don’t separate the buttermilk. I keep shakinging until it’s all one big slimy butter. Can I still do that in the blinder?
I’ve never tried making it and leaving the buttermilk in. I would think it would be similar, you’ll just have s softer butter spread.