Homemade butter from heavy whipping cream

Name: Homemade butter from heavy whipping cream
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: About 400 g
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1 l Heavy whipping cream (35% milk fat)

Make butter from 1 l of 35% heavy whipping cream by whipping, then blending until the buttermilk separates. Makes about 400 g in 30 minutes.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Servings: About 400 g
Difficulty: Medium

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Homemade butter takes just one ingredient: a liter of heavy whipping cream with 35% milk fat. First, whip the cream with a whisk or electric mixer, then process it with an immersion blender until the buttermilk begins to separate. Save the buttermilk to use in bread dough, for example. According to the recipe, a liter of good-quality cream yields about 700 g of butter, so you know exactly what goes into it. The whole process takes about half an hour.

Ingredients

Heavy whipping cream (35% milk fat) 1 l

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Instructions

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Use just one ingredient to make homemade butter: heavy whipping cream.
Pour all the cream into a deep bowl and beat with a whisk or electric mixer until it forms whipped cream.
Process the whipped cream with an immersion blender, repeatedly lowering it into the cream until the buttermilk begins to separate. Save the buttermilk to use in bread dough, for example. Continue blending.
Clumps of butter will gradually form. Once the butter is firm enough, turn it out and pour off the buttermilk.
Knead the butter on a board under cold running water to remove any remaining whey. Continue until the water coming out of the butter runs clear.
Tip: Season the butter with salt or herbs to taste, if desired.

Tip: After rinsing the butter, keep pressing it against the side of the bowl with a spatula until no more water comes out. Residual water and buttermilk shorten its shelf life.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 340 kcal
Protein: 2.8 g
Carbohydrates: 2.8 g
of which sugars: 2.9 g
Fat: 36 g
of which saturates: 23 g
Fiber: 0.0 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Domáce maslo zo šľahačkovej smotany – za 30 minút