Week 2 of Butter Cow Facts

What kind of butter is used to make the Butter Cow?

Is it cultured?

Whipped?

Salted?

Turns out, the Butter Cow uses low moisture, pure cream butter from our very own home state, Iowa. In order for it to be the best quality for sculpting, the butter is kept in a cooler at 40 degrees.

The buttery figurine requires a little more than just butter. A metal wire and mesh steel frame is used as the foundation for the sculpture. Occasionally, food coloring is used to color the butter and specific parts of the secondary sculpture. Red and blue food coloring were used for the American flag in the 2008 Shawn Johnson sculpture.  

Trista