How to Make Homemade Butter in a Mason Jar

Learn how to make Homemade Butter in a Mason Jar in this fun pioneer activity for kids and adults alike! It's easy to churn your own butter and make your own buttermilk!
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How to make Mason Jar Butter

INGREDIENTS

1 pint sized (16 oz) mason jar
1 cup heavy cream (38% fat content)
cold water

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Pour heavy cream into the mason jar, filling it half-way full. Screw the lid on.

2. Shake mason jar for approximately 5-7 minutes. After the first 2 minutes you'll have whipped cream. Keep shaking until you hear that a lump has formed inside, and shake an additional 30-60 seconds after that.

3. Remove the solids from the jar. The remaining liquid is buttermilk. You can save that for other recipes, or discard it.

4. Place the solids into a small bowl. Pour cold water over the butter and use your hands to squish it into a ball. Discard water and repeat rinsing 2 times more.

5. At this point you have butter. You can add in things like salt, honey, and herbs to create flavored butters, or serve in its pure form as is.

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[navioner]

Quick tip, if you let the cream reach room temperature it will help with the separation. It takes me 3 minutes to make.

[charliem.]

I followed your exact instructions WHILE I was watching your video and for the first time in my life, I MADE homemade butter. lol Thank you so much for this video! I am just so excited and giddy. I was so skeptical until I actually made it. Thank you thank you. I think if my Mom and Gramma and Grampa were alive, I think they would be laughing but proud of me. <3

[DeaconOnTheAir]

Love this! This gave me a flashback to kindergarten when our teacher had our class sit in a circle and she put cream in a mason jar and we all took turns shaking and then passing the jar to the person next to us. We were all amazed that we made butter. One of the few things I remember from 40 some years ago. Thanks for the refresher course. Very cool! 😉 👍🏼 ❤️

[PostedForYou]

Butter is just heavy cream? Mind. Blown. 🤯

[josephguerrero]

I think I'll try this using a five gallon bucket and a paint shaker. 😀

[foresthoe]

"I'm going to sleep early tonight....
Me at 1Am:

[CharleneChristie]

Thanks so much for this! You gave me the missing link I was looking for. I had made butter before in the past but it would not firm up well and started spoiling so quickly. Now after watching your video I realize that it still had too much butter milk left in it. I strained and washed off all the butter milk like you suggested and voila...perfect butter!! It tastes delicious and my family is so impressed!

[DiscoCatsMeow]

You need to ripen your cream. Farm wives always left the cream out overnight in the churn to ripen. This gives the butter a much better flavor as well as letting it seperate much easier.

[richardhernandez]

I grew up a rugged city boy, never new that about making homemade butter in a mason jar and i love it simple and ez badass. thanxs

[shouldibehere]

I just tried this and it was easy. After about seven minutes using roughly 4 oz of heavy cream I had a round ball of butter about twice the size of a golf ball. I added about a 1/4 thimble full of fine ground salt before shaking. Most of the salt flavor seemed to end up in the buttermilk (which didn't really taste good). The butter is pretty good. Thanks.

[WorldPeace]

I haven't thought about butter making since grade-school. Thank you for the memory and for the updated container size along with the rinsing steps which I do not recall from grade school!

[StormyPeak]

My siblings and I also made butter like this when we were kids on the 1960s and early 1970s.
We also used raw milk/cream for our butter - use to buy it from a local farmer in wide-mouth gallon jars...and each gallon would have like 2 inches of cream floating on the top of the milk.


My mom also use to make a sour butter. She would let cream sit in the fridge and she would smell it every day. The first day she smelled it and it smelled slightly 'off' she turned it into butter. So we had the choice of sweet butter and sour butter. I rather liked the sour butter.

[blacktulip]

Here in Morocco we buy raw milk we put it on hit to kill bacteria then put it in the fridge so a skin forms on top and we collect them put them in the freezer and later we shake it like this to make homemade butter ....and it is so so good.
Thanks for sharing your recepie 😻

[rachelllopez]

In my class my teacher in forth grade we made a cowgirl and cowboy day and we made biter and it was the best butter I ever tried thanks so much now I can do it ❤️

[stevewildeagle]

Just whack double cream in a food processor and turn it presto perfect butter will form, you'll also get some butter milk you can use to bake with if you want.
Then towards the end after draining out the milk, add a lil salt to taste if you like me prefer salted butter.👍🏻
Just takes out the wrist action for those unable to do this method.

[SyncNPlay]

I just did it this morning! Super fun and easy to make. It only took me 10 minutes from to finish, I only had a half of pint of heavy cream. Will definitely do this again!

[AB-ComeLordJesus]

I did this years ago with my kids for a project after going to a dairy farm for a homeschool field trip and they loved it. Going to try it again with my younger kids who are older enough now, and since my favorite butter is no longer being sold.

[tutti]

That was amazing! You are the sweetest I have ever seen! Thank you for your story of how you grew up making the butter!

[selinacox]

I look forward to doing this, I have a special needs child and making every thing I can . God bless you

[susanhernandez]

This is great! Another fun activity to do with my grandkids when they visit... The treats I could make them using the butter are endless! Butter and honey biscuits come to mind first 😊 Thanks!