How to Make Freshly Whipped Herb Butter
Butter is freshly churned from heavy cream, and flavored with freshly chopped rosemary. It’s the perfect pairing for steak, and so easy to make!
Hi friends!
I can’t tell you how happy I am to be sitting in my office right now, ready to tell you all about how to make your own whipped rosemary butter to dollop on top of your next steak, loaf of bread, or whatever goodie that’s made better by a slathering of fresh butter.
I’ve been traveling for the past four straight weeks, and between three conferences, a wedding, and a trip to the ER in between two of my connecting flights to BlogHer Food ’13 this past weekend, I am a morphine and drugged up wreck, oh-so happy to get back to the little things in life I love so much.
Cooking, cleaning (yes, really), taking photos of food, and telling you all about it…I feel relieved to be back to work!
If you’ve never made your own butter, basically you just make whipped cream, but go a little further.
And if you’ve never made whipped cream, you just pour heavy cream in a bowl and whisk it until it thickens up. Making butter is easier since you don’t have to worry about going too far, like you do with whipped cream. Once the butter and buttermilk have separated, you’re done.
Whisk some rosemary infused cream until it goes past the whipped cream stage, and starts to separate into clumps and liquid, as pictured below.
Can anyone tell me what that liquid is?
…that’s right! It’s true buttermilk.
Scoop out the butter clumps from the buttermilk and dollop it onto whatever you want.
Also feel free to play around with the flavors. Fresh thyme, basil, mint, and other herbs work great in the butter.
You can also add cooked fruits, like apricots, peaches, and so on to make different kinds of fruit butters! Just add the puree to the cream before whipping it up. Enjoy!
Freshly Whipped Rosemary Butter Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp freshly minced rosemary
Instructions
- You can either make the butter in a stand mixer or by hand. I have a strange obsession with whipping my cream and butter by hand, but it will require a lot of elbow grease!
- In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, add the heavy cream, salt, and rosemary. Whip on medium high speed for about 5-8 minutes until the butter clumps separate from the buttermilk. Scoop out the butter clumps from the liquid and spread on whatever you’d like!
- The process is the same to do it by hand, but it will take longer.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
49 Comments on “How to Make Freshly Whipped Herb Butter”
I hope you get a chance to relax and recover!!
Love this herb butter. I’m already making a list in my head of all the foods I want to try it on!
Thanks Jessica, you’re sweet! lol, the list of stuff that this would be good with I think can be pretty long =)
Oh my, sounds like a whirlwind! Hope you are doing ok! I never understood the whole butter on steak thing until I actually tried it. Then I think I cried it was so good! Can’t wait to re create that at home with this herb butter!
hahaha! I know, it really does make a steak so much better…not that steak is bad to begin with 😉
I love making my own ordinary butter as well as herb butter or even dare I say, honey butter. I love how yours looks!
Hi Maureen, honey butter is pretty magnificent!!! Something about honey and butter together…they play so nicely.
This looks awesome, and really simple! It’s like having a steak house in your kitchen! 🙂
Hi Crystal, how are you? Thanks, I love making steak at home! I almost never order it out.
I’m doing well, thanks for asking. How are you? I know what you mean! My husband makes a great steak. It’s fun to get fancy. I love sautéed mushrooms. I’ll be making this whipped herb butter next time we have steaks, especially since we’ve got potted fresh herbs on the deck now! 🙂
Not bad, thanks =) The fresh herbs sound amazing…I really need to get on growing some!!
I could eat this butter all day long.
lol that’s exactly how I feel! <3
So, so cool! Can’t wait to try it!
Thanks Nessa, it’s really fun to make your own butter from cream!
Wow, thank you for the recipe, I definitely will try it!
That’s great, Sika. I hope you enjoy!
Don’t know what happened to you, but hope you are OK!! Can’t wait to try the butter.
Thanks so much Karen. Your well wishes mean a lot to me!
yum great with seafood as a dip thanks
That’s a brilliant idea, Luci! Love that!
Mmm butter! It was so nice to meet you at BlogHer this weekend! Hope you feel better- Austin can do that to you.
I’m so glad I got to meet you Amy!!! I’ll see you next year =)
So glad you are home safe – can’t imagine going through what you did on Friday, and still going to Austin for the weekend!
Thanks Erin! I was so close to going home…but had too many meetings that I really couldn’t miss! I’m glad I went in the end. I would’ve been in pain whether at home or in Austin and with the medicine they gave me I was able to hold out.
Our 4th graders make bread & butter on “Mission Day”, when they recreate crafts that were part of daily living during the time the California missions were being built. They bake bread in an outdoor oven and make butter by shaking cream in babyfood jars until the butter is formed. They are so amazed to discover that this is all there is to it. Thanks for sharing your version. Hope you are feeling better.
Hi Lynne, I totally did that when I was in elementary school…it was so fun! What’s funny though is I remember being exhausted by how much shaking it took LOL but we took turns. Baking the bread in an outdoor oven sounds amazing. How fun!!
ER? oh that doesn’t sound too good. =I Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
My mum would make fresh herb butter at home and at that time I wasn’t a fan of butter but I would eat bread covered with the herb butter. I know crazy right? =)
Thank you for sharing your recipe and take care.
Thanks Helene, that sounds like such a nice food memory!
I’m happy you are home and feeling better. I’m just starting to feel human again from all of my trips! It was so wonderful meeting you and I wish we had had more time together! I loved all of your photos and tweets from BlogHer Food. Compound butter is SO good on steak, this is great.
I’m SO glad I got to finally meet you in person! You’re awesome.
Oh Joanne, you poor thing! I hope you’re feeling better every day. It was so great to meet you & hang out at BlogHer Food, and I actually have a couple questions I want to email you with later. This herb butter looks sooo incredible and perfect for slathering on all the steaks we BBQ in the summer! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Georgia, it was so awesome to meet you as well!!
looks delicious…. thanks for sharing…
Thanks Alex! I hope you get to try it and enjoy =)