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Super Easy Homemade Butter Recipe

Make your own butter using only heavy whipping cream and a mason jar!
Prep Time 45 minutes

Equipment

  • 1 mason jar

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pint heavy whipping cream

Instructions
 

  • Fill a mason jar with heavy whipping cream and put the lid and ring back on.
  • Shake your mason jar vigorously.
  • Keep shaking even when the liquids stop sloshing.
  • Continue to shake even when you see the butter begin to clump together.
  • Once the butter is clumped AND there is buttermilk then you can begin the next steps.
  • Pour out the buttermilk.
  • Shape your butter and rinse it in ice water.
  • Squeeze using a cheese cloth or hands and then rinse it in ice water again.
  • Rinse and squeeze 3 times.
  • Add in your flavorings like sea salt and mix with a spatula.
  • Shape or mold or whip the butter and put it in the fridge or eat it right away!
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