How To Make Butter

Step 3 Using a Buttermold

Maybe you have friends coming over for dinner. You want to offer your homemade butter, but you don't want your friends double dipping in your wonderful fresh butter.

How can you prevent Double Dipping?

Use a butter mold to make individual portions.

You can get butter molds in all kinds of different shapes. The original ones were metal and usually shaped like a shell.

I recommend you use a silicone mold. There are silicone molds for butter, but you can also use any silicone molds used to make ice cubes, candies or mini muffins. You could also just use a plastic ice tray. Only fill the ice tray about 1/3 to 1/2 full to make a nicely sized individual servings.

I've uploaded some photos of me putting butter into a fish shaped silicone ice tray.

I just push the butter into the mold with a spatula. Then I whack the bottom of the mold onto the counter. This is to push the butter down into the mold and squeeze out any air pockets. Top the mold off, and then put it into the freezer.

When you are ready to serve dinner, pop an individual butter pat onto each plate.