How to Make Butter at Home, 5 Easy Ways

How to make butter at home with 5 Easy Ways! Making butter at home using raw milk is super easy and very rewarding and my favorite type of homemade butter. Not to mention the whey by-product that can be used for so many other things too! The heavy cream sits on top of the raw milk and is very easy to skim to make raw milk butter.

Options on How to Make Butter

1. Use a canning jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake the jar for up to 10 minutes until butter is formed
2. Try a stick blender with the cream in a taller rather than wider bowl
3. A Hand-mixer can be used, but you’ll need a powerful one
4. Lots of fun, try using an old-fashion butter churn
5. A Stand-mixer is the easiest and fastest which I will demonstrate in the video

What is Raw Milk?

Raw milk is milk straight from the cow’s udder. It is not pasteurized. Store milk is pasteurized commercially. After the pasteurization process, the milk no longer has all the natural vitamins, therefore making the vitamins an additive after pasteurization. In raw milk, all the vitamins are still inside the milk.

Raw milk will not last as long as pasteurized milk but we use it before it spoils. If raw milk starts to spoil, make buttermilk!

What is a Herd Share?

I am part of their herd share which means I am allowed to buy raw milk from the farmer I have a herd share with. I buy raw milk from a local farmer in Tennessee.

I paid $10 to join the herd share for life. From that $10, I received half a gallon of milk for joining. I pay $4 for half a gallon of raw milk, with lots of creams. He’s certified organic and “we” own grass-fed Jersey cows. 

If you’d like to see more on each state, visit State by State regulations.  If you would like to view the states in a map form, that can be found in Raw Milk Nation – Interactive Map.

FAQs About Raw Milk Butter

How to Skim Cream off of Raw Milk

Skimming cream from raw milk is very easy. When we arrive home from the Farmer’s Market, the milk is placed in a UV glass half-gallon glass jar to sit overnight in the refrigerator, undisturbed.

The next morning, using a small ladle, I skim the cream from the milk. You can actually see a line where the cream ends. Not all the cream is taken, otherwise, the milk is too watery, as in 2% milk.

Use either cold cream or cream that has sat for 12 hours on the counter to get a more “cultured” flavor!

Raw Milk Butter Video Tutorial

How to Make Butter With a Mixer

Using a stand mixer is the easiest and fastest way to make butter.

1. Add all the cream to a mixing bowl
2. Turn the mixer on medium to high until the cream becomes very grainy
3. Stir well several times
4. Lower the speed once the water (whey) is present
5. Keep mixing until the butter forms into little chunks of butter

Straining the Whey from the Butter

1. Put all the butter pieces in a strainer
2. Or, a cotton flour sack towel can be used for straining the butter
3. Let the butter drip and drain for at least 5 minutes
4. Remove the whey and keep it for buttermilk (recipe to follow in the next blog)
5. Whey is excellent in all types of homemade bread in place of the water or milk in the recipe

Washing Raw Milk Butter

1. Start with a bowl of cold filtered water (if possible)
2. Add all the butter and rinse well
3. Repeat, washing and rinsing the butter
4. Start kneading the butter to separate the whey
5. Repeat until the water runs clear

Options for Storing Raw Milk Butter

1. Place the butter in a covered glass dish with a lid
2. Roll the butter in food-grade wax paper on a log roll
3. Freeze half of the butter on food-grade wax paper
4. Store the butter in the refrigerator or on the counter

Mini-Series Blogs and Videos

Part 1: How to Make Homemade Raw Milk Butter

Part 2: 2 DIY Cooling Rack Options

Part 3: How to Make Buttermilk DIY

Part 4: Cacao Recipes with Whipped Cream

Part 5: Moonshine Vanilla Extract

Part 6: Jams With and Without Pectin

Part 7: Super Moist Pound Cake fromScratch

Foods That Just Go With Raw Milk Butter

I absolutely love all-natural things in my life, and I always try and use all-natural in everything. Even in my desserts that require butter to make, I use my raw milk butter.

Some of my favorite foods that I love using raw milk butter with (all recipes are included in the blogs down below):

One Bowl Banana Bread benefits from a slather of warm butter on each slice!

One Bowl Brownies can be made with homemade raw butter instead of oil for a moist brownie.

Buttermilk Bread Machine Rolls uses raw milk butter in the ingredients and of course, goes great on the warm rolls fresh out of the oven!

Zucchini Bread, well, each slice MUST have a slather of homemade butter, in my opinion.

Fluffiest Sourdough Waffles mixed with melted butter and warm syrup are just heaven!

Homemade Flaky Biscuits uses butter to make and the bonus is using it generously on each bite of the biscuits.

In Conclusion On How to Make Butter

How to make butter from raw milk is a healthier choice if you are able to obtain raw milk from an organic or certified farmer. I prefer to make my own butter because I know the cows, and the farmer, and I control the all ingredients. Many butter factories will add a yellow dye to make the butter look better! I prefer no dyes, thank you!

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