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Compound Butter Recipes and How to Make Butter From Scratch

Homemade butter is always rich and decadent. Adding delicious ingredients to butter, from herbs and garlic or cinnamon and maple syrup, create easy compound butter recipes that add flavour to anywhere you love butter.
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Equipment

  • KitchenAid® Stand Mixer, Whisk Accessory, Pouring Shield
  • KitchenAid Cordless Go Food Chopper
  • kitchen towel or plastic wrap
  • wire mesh strainer

Ingredients

Homemade Butter

  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream room temperature
  • ½ tsp salt

Cinnamon Maple Butter

  • ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 Tbsp maple syrup

Garlic Herb Butter

  • ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 Tbsp parsley leaves
  • 1 Tbsp chives

Sundried Tomato Butter

  • ½ cup homemade butter, room temperature
  • 2 Tbsp sundried tomatoes in oil
  • 1 tsp dried oregano

Instructions
 

Homemade Butter

  • In the Stand Mixer bowl fitted with Whisk Accessory, add heavy whipping cream and salt. Secure Pouring Shield over bowl. Turn the mixer on to speed 1 and slowly increase to speed 10. Keep a towel or plastic wrap handy for splatters.
    Adding salt to KitchenAid stand mixer
  • As the cream whips, initially whipped cream will form. Then it will gradually break down into clumps of yellowish fat separated from the white buttermilk. This should take 10-15 minutes.
  • When the butterfat has separated from the buttermilk, turn the mixer off and remove the pouring shield. Strain butter from buttermilk (save buttermilk for another baking purpose).
    Yellow kitchenaid stand mixer is using a whisk attachment to make butter
  • Return butter to Stand Mixer bowl and rinse with cold water. Strain and rinse butter with fresh cold water until water is clear. This process helps remove buttermilk to keep the homemade butter fresh.
  • Press butter into a glass container. Serve butter with fresh bread, pasta, or use in compound butter recipes. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Cinnamon Maple Butter

  • Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
  • In a clean bowl, add the homemade butter, cinnamon, and maple syrup.
  • Whip butter on speed 4 until ingredients are fully incorporated and mixture is fluffy, for 1-2 minutes
  • Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Garlic Herb Butter

  • Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
  • Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop garlic, parsley, and chives until finely minced.
  • Add homemade butter and minced garlic and herbs to clean the Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer.
  • Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes.
  • Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Sundried Tomato Butter

  • Attach Whip Accessory to Stand Mixer.
  • Using KitchenAid Go Cordless Chopper, chop sun dried tomatoes and oregano until finely minced.
    Using a kitchenaid go food chopper to finely chop sundried tomatoes
  • Add homemade butter and minced tomato mixture to the clean Stand Mixer bowl and attach to the Stand Mixer.
  • Whip on speed 4 for 1-2 minutes.
  • Serve immediately or form into a log on parchment paper and chill.

Notes

Pro Tips: To avoid splatters when making the homemade butter, cover the chute of the Pouring Shield and any gaps between the shield and bowl with plastic wrap. Use the best heavy whipping cream you can find for the highest fat yield and creamiest butter.
Keyword butter, compound butter