Make Homemade Butter with Mad Millie Butter Kits

Today I’m sharing how to make homemade butter with Mad Millie Butter Kits. For Christmas last year my Mum gave me a few different kits from Mad Millie, including this cultured butter kit. Mad Millie have a great range of artisan kits that provide you with all the tools and some of the ingredients to make delicious gourmet food and drink in your own kitchen. This is what my butter kit looked like when I got it. Not only are these super practical but they would make fantastic gifts right? They look so GOOD!This is everything included in the butter kit. Pictured here is a glass jar, instructions, wax paper, sticker seals, artisan salt, mixing ball and freeze dried culture. All I needed to make my butter was fresh cream.To make 180g of butter, I needed 500ml of cream. Eventually, I want to try make butter by separating the cream from our farm milk but this time I just used store bought cream.

The first thing I had to do was heat the cream to 20-30 degrees (celsius) and pour it in the jar along with a few grains of culture and the mixing ball. I gave it a wee shake to mix the culture in then had to leave the jar in a warm spot for 12-24 hours.  I often don’t have a lot of success with rising bread or anything that requires you to leave something for a long time so I left this cream for the maximum time period (24 hours). I could tell it was ready by tipping the jar on its side and seeing the cream and its noticably thicker texture.  Next step was churning the cream. The instructions told me 5-15 minutes of vigorous shaking, or until the mixture stopped changing form. As I shook the jar, the butter milk separated from the butter as you can see in the image above.This is what it looked like once poured into a bowl. I was a bit concerned about the butter to butter milk ratio so decided to stray from the instructions and use my electric beater to do a bit of extra churning. Once completely churned, you have to fold and rinse the butter to get rid of extra butter milk. This required squeezing it out and rinsing the butter in cold water. I changed the water in the bowl about 5 times to get the butter milk out. Leftover butter milk can be used for pancakes, baking and smoothies!Next step was flavouring! The Mad Millie kit came with artisan salt to get the best possible flavour. I used about quarter of a teaspoon. I made two lots of butter so left one plain and then used crushed garlic and fresh chives to make a beautiful garlic butter.I absolutely love the presentation of these kits and how they even come with their own packaging!    I used the garlic butter to make some garlic bread and it was delicious! I was so proud of myself and this homemade butter and can’t wait to make some more. The kit I have has enough culture to make 9kg of butter, so I guess I won’t be running out anytime soon! I can’t wait to try other kits from Mad Millie! Check them out here.