Homemade Butter

Making homemade butter is surprisingly simple and easy, especially if you have a KitchenAid Mixer.

Here we were, sitting in our PJ’s watching Alex Guarnaschelli on her show, ‘Alex’s Day Off’ and she just “whipped up some homemade butter”

Of course she did. She’s an awesome chef. But after watching her make it, we said to ourselves… “That’s it?” Thus began our humble quest to make homemade butter. Yes, it was that easy.

You’re just setting two ingredients in a mixer and letting them get friendly with each other. And in a few minutes, you’ll have butter. Talk about easy.

After some impatience on my part, we had success. After the cream and sour cream get super friendly, the butter curds will separate from the butter milk. You should have something that resembles the above image.

Next comes the straining. You will need to line a strainer with cheese cloth to contain the butter curds, then pour the contents of the mixing bowl into the strainer to separate the buttermilk into a bowl. Gently squeeze out any excess buttermilk, but be careful not to apply so much pressure that the butter begins to seap through the cheese cloth.

Finally a sprinkling of sea salt and freshly cracked pepper…

Enjoy by slathering a thick layer onto lightly toasted sourdough and revel in the fact that the calories don’t count because it is homemade. That’s how it works, right?

Unless you’ve had homemade butter fresh out of the mixer,  I cannot describe it in such a manner that will do it justice.

So light, creamy, indulgent. And it will keep in your fridge for a long time.