How to make homemade butter in bread machine? And what is the shelf life of it?

Answer 1

You can make butter in a blender or a stand mixer, or with a handheld mixer. Just beat (or blend) whipping cream on high until it coagulates and forms globules of butter. Press out the liquid and form into a block.My bread machine makes homemade butter. I just use heavy whipping cream (the higher the milk fat content, the better) and the machine's paddle mixes/stirs it for about 30 minutes at a low to medium speed.

And believe it or not - I just read this on Recipelink:

"My bread machine makes homemade butter. I just use heavy whipping cream (the higher the milk fat content, the better) and the machine's paddle mixes/stirs it for about 30 minutes at a low to medium speed. "

Apparantly there are Toastmaster bread machines with a butter cycle. If yours doesn't have one you may be out of luck.

All butter should be refrigerated or kept away from the air (like in a European style butter keeper). I think a butter keeper would be great for homemade butter since it would protect your fresh delicious butter from soaking up the yucky refrigerator flavors. Good luck!

Answer 2

You can't. Butter has to be churned at a reasonably constant speed (not fast). Bread machine's have a heating element to make bread rise . Heating the raw milk or cream would destroy any hope of success for you. A slow churn and constant temperature is the only thing that work's. If you want to do a small amount of butter you can use a quart, glass fruit jar. Shake back and forth and watch butter form. It takes a while, won't happen in 10 minutes. Good luck.

Answer 3

Bread machines are for making bread, not butter. To make butter buy some heavy cream and pour into a jar. Have the kids shake and shake the jar until the butter forms. My son did this in his kindergarten class and the butter is very good.