Compact butter maker

A compact butter maker comprising:

• a cream container, a drive housing, a drive, and a generally cylindrical dasher;
• the drive housing the drive, the drive being coupled to the dasher and adapted and configured to drive the dasher in reciprocal motion;
• the drive housing and the cream container being adapted and configured to reversibly mate and to position the dasher in the cream container for reciprocal motion therein;
• the dasher and the container having complementary shapes, the dasher being dimensioned to fit within the container with tolerances that provide space between the dasher and the container for circulation of cream or butter during reciprocal motion of the dasher;
• whereby the circulation of cream during the reciprocal motion converts the cream to butter.