Ingredients and Tools:

• Not homogenized whipping cream at room temperature
• Salt (optional)
• Stand mixer
• Cheese cloth

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: use 100% not homogenized whipping cream which doesn’t have any addition ingredients, at least couple of days old, at room temperature:

   

2. Pour whipping cream to a mixer bowl, make sure amount of cream takes not more than 1/3 of a bowl, if you need to prepare more butter (and use more cream) work in batches:

   

3. Put wire attachment on and start whipping cream over moderate high speed as you would normally do for whipped cream:

   

4. After 5-8 minutes of whipping cream will begin to thicken:

   

5. When it becomes thick enough that it starts sticking to the attachment, I change wire attachment to mixing one (the one with bigger holes), and I suggest you to do the same:

   

6. If you want to make butter which will stay fresh longer add salt to the bowl, amount to taste:

   

7. Continue beating, you will see that at some point the mixture starts separating into yellowish butterfat and buttermilk (not the fermented skimmed milk kind, but the liquid remaining after churning of cream into butter). At this point liquid may splash out of the mixer bowl (especially if speed is high), so either use a screen, or continue pouring buttermilk out from the bowl as soon as it start producing. Continue churning for 10 mins more over lower speed than before (to remove more buttermilk liquid):

   

8. Then move bowl content to a colander lined with 3-4 layers of cheesecloth and set over a bigger pot. Stir/mix butter in colander with a spatula to drain excessive buttermilk:

   

9. Then pull ends of cheesecloth together and squeeze butter with cheesecloth and your hands to remove even more liquid from it to the colander:

   

10. Unfold butter over a slice of parchment paper:

    

11. Discard the cheesecloth:

    

12. At this point I usually form a stick of butter by squeezing it with my hands through the parchment paper, slice butter stick into portion pieces and freeze them to keep butter fresh longer:

    

13. Homemade butter prepared from good quality cream is perfect for spreading and cooking, it tastes just great:

    

Tips and Advises

• Liquid produced while preparing butter from cream (buttermilk) can be used to prepare crepes, bread, muffins instead of milk; or as a marinate for chicken meat or fish for grilling.