We have had trouble finding a local, natural/organic butter, so last night I decided to give butter making a try… afterall it sounded pretty easy to do. 

And it was!

I just poured the cream into the Kitchenaid and beat it within an inch of its life. 

Once it had separated into nice firm-ish blobs of butter, I drained off the buttermilk -which is going to make some very delicious buttermilk pancakes tomorrow morning!

Then i rinsed the butter by beating with cold water, added some salt and drained off any remaining water by squeezing in some muslin cloth, leaving me with some delicious, fresh butter!

So easy!  It wasn’t even really messy or time consuming.