Homemade Butter!

After an uneventful Saturday, Sunday was a welcome day of fun!

My friend Casey and brother-in-law Scott (who are dating) came down to our house for the day. Scott and my hubby Mark, wanted to get some work done on the boys room. The boys room has been a long on-going project and it's all starting to come together now. Once dubbed the "Swiss Cheese Room", it now has walls and a closet! So they worked on the room while Casey and I found fun things to do.

One of the things we had wanted to try, was to make butter. I'm not really sure why, other than curiosity and wanting to make something homemade.

I had prepped the cream by letting it sit out for the better part of the day (directions say to let it sit out for at least 12 hours, but no longer than 24 hours). 1qt container gave us each 2 cups to shake to death in a jar!! Ready, set, start shaking!!!!

After a few minutes, our liquid cream started getting thick..shake shake shake...another few minutes, and it didn't even feel like it was able to be shaken at all it was so thick...shake shake (ugh, are we done yet? my arms are tired)shake...wow, that's strange, it sounds like all liquid again!
A quick internet search to make sure we were on track! We passed the jars off at this point to a couple of the kids, just to make sure they had as much fun as we were ;) Shake shake shake...open the lid to peek in, OH! It's BUTTER! We kept shaking till we were sure we had creamed up all the butter possible. Then rinsed and rinsed in cold water.

Beautiful, fluffy creamy butter! One 2 cup jar of cream made enough butter to just overfill a pint glass jar. Next time I make butter, I promise to photograph each step to post! It's a lot of fun, and a good feeling, even if its something as silly as butter!