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Smoked Butter on a serving plate with bread.
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Homemade Smoked Butter Recipe

How to make homemade smoked butter. It's easy. It's all about the technique.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 30 minutes
Cooling in Fridge1 hour
Total Time2 hours 40 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine: American
Keyword: butter, how to make butter, smoked butter, smoked butter recipe
Servings: 16 ounces
Cost: $8.00

Equipment

  • 1 Stand Mixer Make sure the bowl is cold.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups good quality heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon salt optional

Instructions

  • Smoke the heavy cream in a glass bowl at 200 degrees for about 90 minutes. You can go longer for more smoke influence, but the key is to keep the cream from boiling (212 degrees Fahrenheit), if you keep your heat at or just below 200, you avoid the temperature of the cream from boiling.
  • Let cool to room temperature, then transfer into refrigerator to get a nice chill (about 1 hour).
  • When you churn, make sure the cream comes straight from the fridge and place in a cold mixing bowl (we put our metal mixing bowl in the freezer for about 5 minutes to get cold).
  • Place cream in mixer and turn on med-high. After a few minutes the cream should turn to whipped cream. Keep going. Eventually the solids and liquids will separate, and keep mixing until you know you’ve extracted as much of the solids. This can take anywhere from 10-15 minutes (or longer), but for us it usually starts to come together around the 10 minute mark.
  • Then rinse the solids in cold water (or an ice bath) to get rid of any remaining buttermilk and help it last longer in the refrigerator.
  • Roll the butter into the form you want (we like to shape it into a roll similar to a regular stick of butter using plastic wrap to help shape it) and keep cold until service.

Notes

Salt: Feel free to add a bit of salt (about a teaspoon or less) to your cream mixture before it’s whipped. It's more difficult to get the salt into the solids. The salt brings out the flavor slightly.
You can use this recipe as a base for compound butter or serve directly over any of your grilled meats.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 103kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 157mg | Potassium: 22mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 437IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg