Sunday, September 12, 2010

Homemade Butter

Isn't this the loveliest butter that you've ever seen?


It's creamy, it's sweet, it has nice buttery fragrance. Nothing can beat your own homemade butter.

So, how do you make your own butter? Simply by overwhipping your cream, and continue to whip, since there's nothing that you can do to save the overwhipped your butter. You will see the cream will then separate into curd and whey. The watery part will turn into buttermilk. The curdy part will turn into your own sweet homemade butter. Discard the watery part and your butter is ready to be enjoyed with bread, pancakes, cakes or whatever you can think of. And, you can use your buttermilk to make your pancake, that you can enjoy with a whip of butter--homemade at that.

By then, you should have realized that this post was written as an attempt to salvage my overwhipped cream. I was in the middle of whipping the cream for my frosting for my almost-blackforest cake, when I realized that overwhipping is just a matter of seconds! Seriously.

Only a problem, nobody in the house eats butter. Anyone can help here?