Maplebrook Farm North Bennington, Vermont · Est. 2003
Ploughgate Creamery butter sheets

Ploughgate Creamery · part of the Maplebrook family

Cultured butter,
now in sheets.

88% butterfat. Higher than any sheet on the market.
Made for croissants that shatter.

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Marisa Mauro, founder of Ploughgate Creamery

Two crafts, one family

The buttermaker
joined the cheesemakers.

Marisa Mauro has been crafting small-batch cultured butter in Vermont since 2014 — churning fresh local cream that's been cultured for a full 24 hours, then folding in coarse sea salt and wrapping every block by hand. Her butter is nutty, grassy, and sweet.

In 2022, Ploughgate Creamery joined Maplebrook Farm. Marisa had known co-founder Mike Scheps since she was a kid buying focaccia at his father's Italian deli in Manchester. Now the partnership gives her the space to do what artisans love most: push the craft forward.

For bakers & pastry chefs

Lamination deserves better butter.

Most laminating butter is a commodity. Ours is a craft. Our butter sheets bring extraordinary depth of cultured flavor and 88% butterfat — more pliable folds, cleaner layers, and croissants, kouign-amann and puff pastry with real Vermont character.

This product is the intersection of two crafts — buttermaking and baking — and an invitation to think differently about butter as a foundational ingredient.

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Ploughgate butter hand wrapped in kraft paper

From the churn

The butter lineup

Butter Sheets New

Butter Sheets

Our new butter sheets have extraordinary depth of flavor and 88% butterfat -- higher than any sheet on the market. Designed for pastry chefs and bakers who value flavor and responsible sourcing, they are made for lamination: croissants, kouign-amann, danishes and puff pastry with shatter-crisp layers and a deep, cultured flavor.

Wholesale only. Contact us to order.

Cultured Butter

Cultured Butter

Crafted by hand in small batches in the old European tradition with fresh local cream. We add active cultures to the cream and let it sit for 24 hours before churning, which imparts complexity to the aroma, flavor and texture. The result is nutty, grassy and sweet -- simply divine. Available in coarse sea salt, unsalted, Vermont maple, and rotating seasonal flavors.

8oz blocks and 1lb bakers' blocks, hand wrapped in kraft paper.

Burrino Collaboration

Burrino

An old-world cheese, contemporized: Maplebrook Farm cheese formed around a heart of Ploughgate butter. Choose cultured balsamic-and-fig butter inside our Burrino, or classic cultured salted butter inside our Smoked Burrino. One bite tells the whole story of our two crafts.

Limited runs. When it's gone, it's gone.

Maplebrook burrata with Ploughgate butter

Better together

Burrata & butter.

Our two flagship products, one plate. Freshly baked bread slathered with cultured butter and creamy burrata; pasta finished with both. This union speaks to the partnership of our two brands — and it might be the most decadent thing to come out of Vermont.

Meet the cheeses →