Everything's Better With Butter!

Shake it Lane!! (Lane shaking the butter)

Lane had a little Thanksgiving party at his school yesterday. His teacher had the kids make butter. It was a great activity for the kids and they were very interested. She just passed around some jars of cream and they took turns shaking them. Of course this was right up my alley, I had seen it on this blog before and had been wanting to try it. So when we got home, we made some of our own butter!

Lane's finished product after shaking.

I put the rest of the heavy cream in the mixer and made a bigger batch in there. I covered the mixer with the towel because when the milk seperates from the butter, milk flies!
Here is the butter once it seperated from the liquid. I used the "butter" milk (not actual buttermilk like you buy in the store) to make some biscuits last night. After whipping it until it seperates, you need to wash the butter so keeps for longer I guess. The directions are linked above and it's really less complicated than it seems.
I decided to flavor our butter with cinnamon, honey, and a little salt.
And since everything is better with butter, I had to make some pumpkin chocolate chip scones (my recipe is adapted from this one) to go with the butter. Heavenly! Now I think everytime I make homemade bread, I'll ask Lane to make the butter....