Incredible Spreadable Butter (recipe)
April 14th, 2009
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Don’t let soft, fresh bread get roughed up by that bully, hard butter! And don’t pay extra for whipped, spreadable or light butter. Make spreadable butter yourself… save some dough on your grocery bill, and save innocent bread from destruction!
Ingredients for Incredible Spreadable Butter:
1/2 cup salted butter (1 stick)
1/3 cup canola oil (or any flavorless oil you prefer)
TIP: For best results, ingredients should be cold.
Equipment:
Electric mixer (or whisk, really strong arm and a boatload of patience)
TIP: For best results, chill mixer beater and bowl.
Go ahead, spread it on!
Add chilled butter to chilled mixer bowl.
Whip butter on high for several minutes until smooth and fluffed. CAUTION: May produce flying butter globs.
Reduce mixer speed to medium - medium-high and gradually add in oil.
Scrape down sides of mixer and whip several minutes more. In the immortal words of Devo, “Whip it good.”
When you begin to feel mad at Betty for getting that Devo song stuck in your head, stop whipping it good 
Note consistency is slightly runny immediately after whipping.
Scrape mixture into container and allow to chill (overnight for best results).
Dig in! Whipping and adding canola oil to the butter produces a spread that’s lower in saturated fat and gives you more butter-for-your-buck!
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9 Comments Add your own
1. Penny | April 14th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Simply genius Betty! Why have I not been doing this all my life? I can’t wait to try this! Thanks you!
2. Antony Davis(Tony | April 14th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said “this butter’s bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better” So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so ’twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!
3. HoneyB | April 15th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Love it! Thank you!
4. Average Betty | April 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Thanks, Penny! Genius though? I don’t know about that
Thank you, HoneyB!
5. How To Turn One Stick Of &hellip | April 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
[…] Incredible Spreadable Butter (recipe): Don’t let soft, fresh bread get roughed up by that bully, hard butter! And don’t pay extra for whipped, spreadable or light butter. Make spreadable butter yourself… save some dough on your grocery bill, and save innocent bread from destruction! […]
6. Ilona | May 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Have you ever tried making spreadable butter with very mild olive oil. I would think the properties would be the same and the health and nutritional value of olive oil would be an additional plus.
7. Average Betty | May 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Hi Ilona!
I’ve never tried olive oil - but I imagine it would be great. I have just recently been enlightened to all the people that do not like Canola oil! If you give the olive oil a whirl, I’d love to hear about it. I may try it too!
I must say, I’ve become a little attached to making this spreadable butter, because regular butter seems too -err- buttery now
Crazy, huh?
8. Yum, Butter «&hellip | November 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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9. Linda | November 19th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
What a great idea! And I laughed my way through your post–you are a hoot!
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