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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 me 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!
Link to Spreadin’ the Love! blog post.
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Simply genius Betty! Why have I not been doing this all my life? I can’t wait to try this! Thanks you!
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!
Love it! Thank you!
Thanks, Penny! Genius though? I don’t know about that ;)
Thank you, HoneyB!
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.
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?
What a great idea! And I laughed my way through your post–you are a hoot!
Thank you! Butter tastes SO much better on my grilled cheese!
hi, average betty,
i really like the butter taste but i hate to beat on it to spread. just have 3 questions before i try this:
-have you tried blending warmed up or just melted butter with canola oil? it would be lot easier but i do not know if the taste is affected.
-if i like mine lightly salted or flavored, when should i add them?
-what is the best brand of butter i should experiment with?
thanks for the help
Hi john!
Let’s see…
1. I think if you wanted to try butter at room temperature and whip in the canola oil that would work. I don’t think the texture would be right with melted butter. The key is whipping air into the butter to get it fluffy.
2. Salt and flavorings can be added at the end. That way, the mixing will be easier. Don’t forget, you’ll still need to refrigerate your butter after you whip the oil into it – for best texture.
3. I don’t use a particular brand of butter; just make sure you use one that says it is a natural dairy product.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Betty
Olive oil becomes hard at low temps. Canola oil stays softer.
I take three sticks of salted butter, and 1/2 cup of canola oil, place them in my blender, and it produces enough spreadable butter to fill an Earth Balance tub. I tried the recipe above, but the oil and butter separated.
i had a recipe for softened butter about 15 years ago. i just couldn’t remember what to mix to soften it. this sounds about right, can’t wait to try it thanks a bunch
Great site. I just stumbled across this site after googling how to lower my LDL. I am going to try the recipe for butter.
Made this today! Awesome!! Never buying the spreadable stuff again!!
Glad to hear it Deanna! Here’s to saving money!!
Those of a certain age will remember the recipe in “Laurel’s Kitchen” (1976) for Better Butter which calls for half oil and half butter.
Thanks, I’d forgotten about doing this. For baking blend, I used 1 lb softened (melted definitely does not work) butter and 1 cup oil and that worked fine. I haven’t successfully added salt (grainy). I’ve also added water, whipped it good and then poured off the little bit of water that separated.
I had tried this idea with olive oil, (although I did it by hand with room temp ingratiation) but found after refrigeration it was almost as hard as just plain butter…..I’ll try again with veggie oil :)
I tried this recipe but used vegetable oil instead because that’s all we had. I also had to wait for the butter to be at room temp because I don’t have a mixer. It still turned out pretty good! Though it was a bit oily tasting, might be the veg oil. I will have to pick up a small canola bottle. Getting a mixer for Christmas though so can’t wait to really whip it up!
Well, Merry Christmas to you and your new mixer, Crystal. I think it will be better once you have a little machine-power to whip it up and thanks for sharing your experience hand-whipping – good to know!
I love Better Butter and have been making it for years. I use 1/2 Organic Butter and 1/2 Light Olive Oil . For each batch I let 2 sticks of unwrapped butter sit out in a bowl until soft then I beat in one cup of oil. It sets up perfectly in the fridge overnight. I use it in my sautéing, baking, as a spread, to make grilled sandwiches. The only other thing I use is EVOO or coconut oil. I am hooked!