Homemade Butter Recipe

Homemade Butter is a revelation and I just can't stop telling people how awesome it is. Or how ridiculously easy it is to make. It even works out cheaper than buying similar butter and takes 10 minutes tops. You have to try this!

Prep time: PT10M

Total time: PT10M

Rating

5 stars (25 reviews)

Keywords

Ingredient, Vegetarian

Ingredients

600 ml Double Cream (Heavy Cream) (Or whipping cream)
1 tbsp Sea Salt Flakes (Optional)

Cuisine

American
British
French

Steps

Add 600ml Double Cream to your mixing bowl
Whisk on a medium speed.
Stop the mixing and scrape down the sides of the bowl after a minute or two. 
Repeat the bowl scraping exercise every minute or two. 
Keep checking it....
You are ready to stop mixing when the liquid separates entirely from the .
Scrape the fat from the whisk into a small bowl or onto a board. 
Fish out any remaining lumps of fat from the mixing bowl and add to the rest of the fat. 
Strain the liquid buttermilk into a container to keep for later.
Add any remaining lumps of fat sieved out to the rest. 
Use your hands to squeeze the bulk of any liquid out of the butter. You can add that liquid to the rest of the buttermilk. 
Rinse the lump of butter under the running cold tap for a minute or two. Use both hands and continually manipulate and squeeze the butter. You will be ready to finish once the water runs off clear and not cloudy. 
I like to pat off any remaining water with a paper towel for maximum dryness. 
Add a scant 1 tbsp Sea Salt Flakes to the butter and knead it in. 
Some more liquid may be drawn out by the salt in which case squeeze that out and dry the butter again. 
The butter is now ready to eat. Shape it however you prefer using your hands or by pressing it into a dish. 
Store by wrapping in grease proof paper. 
Or in a lidded dish.

Nutitrion

Serving Size: 1 g
Calories: 8 kcal
Cholesterol: 3 mg
Sodium: 28 mg

Reviews

Jane Steele on 2025-09-25 (5 stars):
Well said. Your recipe is faultless, if you actually read it.
Jane on 2025-05-16 (5 stars):
So easy to make, I wanted to try this for ages. Saw some double cream in M&S half price and thought why not. I used my KitchenAid and it was very quick. I added the salt as per the recipe but next time I will use half the quantity as it was too salty for me.
Clare on 2025-04-21 (5 stars):
This has blown my tiny mind! Leftover double cream from an incredible Easter Sunday pudding and never thought about making my own butter. So delicious, so much cheaper and better than shop-bought. Thank you for such a well written guide (and tea towel for the splash was prepped and in place to save a real mess!)
Terea on 2025-01-09 (5 stars):
I haven't actually used your recipe yet but I made butter a few times many years ago and this sounds like the same method. I enjoy your humour and clarity of style very much! If all food bloggers wrote like this I would subscribe to some of them, as well.
Andrew Scott on 2024-11-22 (5 stars):
I love this no-nonsense response to people who complain about the recipe despite not following it! Humans are strange indeed. Your recipe works perfectly in all versions of English (though, of course, the cream varies by region). Good on you for removing this silly review.
Lou on 2024-11-02 (5 stars):
Yes it will work better than any store bought cream. I grew up milking cows and making butter from the skimmed cream. We only froze cream if we were waiting on a cow to calf. Give it a try. It should be the best butter you've ever eaten.
Jules on 2024-10-28 (5 stars):
Just made it and it is delicious - making my own from now on and it's so easy to make!!
emily on 2024-07-01 (5 stars):
Hi Chloe, I just made this butter recipe but using my thermomix and it came out beautifully. Very little hands-on work compared to some of the recipes out there. The only issue I have with this recipe is now I can make butter too easily I can tell this will be a problem for my waistline and arteries haha! Thanks again :) Note: i live in Australia, and I used pure cream which I find is rather hard to source here as thickened cream is more readily available