How to Make Butter from Raw Milk Using a Mixer

Learn how to make butter from raw milk using a mixer with this easy tutorial. Fresh cream and salt are the only ingredients you need. Butter made from raw pastured milk is high in nutrients and beneficial enzymes.

Health Benefits of Butter Made From Raw Milk

Raw milk has 8 essential amino acids. It contains CLA, which is good for fighting cancer and has immune system benefits. 

In our home, we consider clean raw milk a complete super food. Unlike the store-bought processed and pasteurized milk, raw milk has all the enzymes and nutrients still there.

If the health benefits from raw milk are so great, then what about the butter made from it?

Raw milk butter, from pastured cows, is one of the most absorbable source of Vitamin A. It is also full of Vitamins E and K. Butter made from raw milk is anti-inflammatory due to butyric acid. it is energy boosting and good for your heart health.

Now, remember, I’m just a normal person, not a health practitioner, so I suggest you do your own research. Check out this post for some raw milk science.

How to Make Butter from Raw Milk Using a Mixer

• Several hours before you are ready to start making the butter, set the cream out on the counter to warm up. You are looking for the cream to be about 62° F.
• Once the cream has come up to temperature, dump it into a mixer and turn the mixer on high. Stay near and keep an eye on it. If you have a lid, put it on because this will make a mess.
• While watching this, it is a good time to measure out the amount of salt you will use and get it ready. For every quart of cream, you will use 1/4 teaspoon of salt.

• Around 5 minutes, you will notice a change in the sound with your mixer. You are probably at the whipped cream stage now. Keep it whipping.
• When the butter is done, you will see butter clumping together on the blade and buttermilk sitting in the bottom.

• Strain out the buttermilk and keep for other recipes.

• Take your bowl and butter to the sink and run cool water on the butter. Firstly, the water will be cloudy. Drain the water and repeat running water through and draining, using your hands to knead the butter as you do this. Once the water runs clear, drain off the extra water.

• Smear the butter along the sides of the bowl to drain off any excess liquid. Add the salt and incorporate it well into the butter.
• Let the butter sit for a few minutes while the remaining moisture draws out.

How much cream should I use?

This actually depends on how much butter you need. The process is the exact same no matter how much you are making.

Storing Your Homemade Butter:

Your glorious homemade butter can be enjoyed right after making it. However, to store it longer, either place in an airtight container in the fridge for a few days or you can wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and freeze it.

Your gorgeous homemade butter can be enjoyed fresh, placed in an airtight container in the fridge for a few days, or wrapped tightly and frozen.

Using Your Homemade Butter:

This is the best part about learning how to make butter from raw milk using a mixer! There are so many wonderful things to use butter for. I don’t know if it has been scientifically proven yet, but I can prove that everything tastes better with a bit of butter.

Here are some recipes you can use your butter up with:

• Slather some on a piece of fresh out of the oven homemade bread
• Corn on the Cob in a Crockpot
• Garlic Herb Butter which is great on top of steaks