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How to Make Homemade Butter (plus a review of the Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer and giveaway)

I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a food “bucket list.”   (By bucket list, I mean I have a list of different recipes and techniques I want to try someday.)  I finally had the opportunity to cross another project off my list!  Woo-hoo, I made butter!
 
Butter is actually really easy to make, just add heavy cream to a bowl and blend…  The reason I’d never attempted it before was that I didn’t want to stand over a bowl with my hand mixer for the 10+ minutes needed to turn the cream to butter. (It takes longer with a hand mixer.)

 

How to make homemade butter.
 
Hamilton Beach generously sent me one of their new 6-speed stand mixer and a hand mixer to try out.  I thought about making something easy like cookies or a cake, but I figured this was my opportunity to make something I wouldn’t want to make with a hand mixer…  So homemade butter it was!
 
Butter is definitely something you need to try (even without a stand mixer.)  My kids were in awe that I made butter and it was so good!

 

I really enjoyed using this stand mixer.  It has a powerful 300-watt motor and the same mixing action as another well known popular stand mixer.  The motor and mixing action makes mixing up bread dough, cakes, cookies or whipped cream (and butter) a breeze!  The best part is that this mixer is about 1/3 the price of the brand I was referring to above.
 
I made a video of the mixer in action, (it’s a little lame-sorry) you can see it here.  Someday, I’ll take the time to work on my video-making skills…
 

Here comes the good part!I’m giving away a Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer and one of their soft scrape 6-speed hand mixers!  You can find the giveaway info after the recipe.

 
Homemade Butter
Ingredients:
16 oz heavy cream (I doubled this amount so I could have regular butter and honey butter)
 
Instructions:

1.  Add heavy cream into bowl. Mix for about 10 minutes (a bit more if you’re using a hand mixer), or until the butter begins to separate.  (The liquid will start sloshing around)

2. Separate the butter from the liquid and squeeze out as much liquid as you can.  (This will help the butter keep longer.)  To do this, I wrapped the butter in a paper towel and the plastic wrap and squeezed.)

3. Store in the fridge in a covered container for a couple of weeks.For honey butter, blend in about 1/4 cup of honey for every 8 oz of the finished butter.  (16 oz of cream should yield about 8oz butter.)  A hand mixer works best.

Enjoy!

 
How to make homemade butter.
 
Want to win this mixer (or the soft scrape hand mixer?)  Visit today’s Inspiration Monday post to enter.  (Here.)  Good luck!

 

 

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42 Comments

  1. Kstefanowicz says:

    How does that stand mixer do with cookie dough?

  2. Kstefanowicz says:

    How do you like that mixer for making cookie dough?

  3. Thomas Murphy says:

    I want to try to make homemade butter. Thanks for the recipe! and awesome mixer!

  4. price21100 says:

    That sounds yummy! Looks it too!

  5. wow! i have to try this out! I had no idea you could make butter this way! thanks for sharing.

  6. there are so many things you can do with this mixer. i would love to have one to make some amazing dishes. thanks for the review.

  7. Lisa Williams says:

    I would love to win this and try out the homemade butter!

  8. Lisa Williams says:

    would love to win this and try out the homemade butter!

  9. Waad Radhi says:

    I love butter and it's very nice to make it at home. Nice blog

  10. My hubby is picky about butter, this recipe looks yummy

  11. Oooh that sounds really good, the honey especially. Thank you for the recipe.

  12. Carmody Tisdale says:

    How great. I am going to give this a try. When I was little I tried to make my own while playing "Old Timey"

  13. Deb Jackson says:

    I think this looks wonderful. Wish I had one for making homemade angelfood cakes.

  14. Mike Bratek says:

    Never had this butter made fresh, i bet it tastes good!

  15. Trish Martin says:

    I love butter…and will be definitely making me some fresh butter real soon. I have a Hamilton beach hand mixer…and would love and would love to have a stand mixer.

  16. Little Mrs. Maffett says:

    I've never had homemade butter. Looks easy and delicious!

  17. Shailynn Krow says:

    I love homemade butter! We make it all the time here. A mixer would be so much easier than the by hand method I do.

  18. rrjane011749 says:

    I'd love to try this recipe–But it says to mix for "0" minutes, I don't think this is correct.

    1. Oh no! Thank you, I'll get that fixed asap! Should be 10 minutes (more or less depending on your machine.)
      ~Jamie