Whipped cream...devour or detest?
Seems like most SE's either love whipped cream or loathe it. While I often do choose to put a dollop on pumpkin pie, strawberry shortcake or hot chocolate, it's not a "I-must-have-this-food" for me. However, I do loathe the "imitation whipped creams/toppings" like Cool Whip & those cans of Redi-Whip thingies. I read that the ultra-pasteurized cream is not as tasty as the one without the process, but I've only found the UP in my local markets. When you do whip cream, how do you flavor it? What other recipes do you add a bit of richness with heavy cream...mousse, soups, sauces? The question is...Whipped cream: love it or leave it off?
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23 Comments:
don't like it and never like canned whipped topping or cool whip.
JerzeeTomato at 5:28AM on 02/08/08
I love real whipped cream and loathe Reddi-Whip. When I make it the most I do is slightly sweeten it. The sweetener depends on what it goes on. Sometimes sugar, sometimes just a bit of maple syrup, which is just wonderful for stuff like pumpkin pie or to use as a dip or topping for fresh berries.
Cool Whip? I have this weird from childhood love for Cool Whip on Jello. Go figure.
rockykay at 6:14AM on 02/08/08
Love the real stuff. But only occasionally. You just can't beat it on strawberry shortcake. And I've got a recipe for lamb shanks in a curried sultana sauce that calls for both yogurt and a little heavy or whipping cream at the end which is to die for. :-)
Ann Fisher at 6:39AM on 02/08/08
i'd rather eat the cream than the dessert! i flavor it with my homemade vanilla sugar.
cybercita at 8:44AM on 02/08/08
I love whipped cream. I must say, I don't mind the fake stuff - my mom used to put it on fruit when I was younger to get me to eat more fruit. But the real stuff is delicious - I add just a touch of powdered sugar to mine.
woodenspoon at 9:27AM on 02/08/08
I like a tiny bit, with just a whisper of sugar in it, on certain desserts (I'm with Ann on the strawberry shortcake, also like it on very rich desserts like flourless chocolate cake). Cool Whip or Reddi Whip or any of that other stuff is just not an option (though we use CW all the time in photo shoots -- editorially it makes great dollops!).
CookiePie at 9:55AM on 02/08/08
UGH!
Even when I was 5, I used to spoon off the whipped cream, eat the cherry, then head for the hot fudge at the bottom of the class when I got a parfait at a restaurant!
HeartofGlass at 10:01AM on 02/08/08
I usually ask for whipped cream to be left off my desserts. I don't think it adds anything.
I do use cream to make the best alternative - ice cream!
wellred at 10:34AM on 02/08/08
LOVE IT! Anytime. I like the real stuff, but I'll eat Cool Whip or Reddi Whip any day. Give me a bowl and I'll fill it with whipped cream and eat it right up like ice cream. It's kinda gross, I know, but it's so good. I also love it as a topping on pudding.
luswim06 at 10:35AM on 02/08/08
I do love it, but it really just depends on what you're eating it with. A lot of sweet stuff could do without, but I'm with everyone on shortcake. My favorite is on hot chocolate. Mmm. I have had some nasty whipped cream before (not even referring to what you buy at the grocery store!!!).
alyssazor at 11:26AM on 02/08/08
My mom used to tell the story of when she was staying with her grandmother as a kid -- which would put it in the early 1940's. Anyway, she remembered a time when a summer thunderstorm was approaching, and her grandmother called all the kids inside because they had to eat a bowl of whipped cream, that great-grandma was convinced was going to collapse and deflate due to the change in the barometer. Now that I write it out, I'm thinking my great-grandma wasn't so daft -- she just needed some way to get the kids inside fast, and the whipped cream was close at hand.
As for me, I can take it or leave it. I know that when I was a youngster, I used to love to eat frozen marshmallows and frozen dollops of cool whip.
DaveFaris at 11:52AM on 02/08/08
Oh, and I just remembered -- I saw a can of SOY whipped cream, just like the Reddi Whip containers today at Whole Foods. I can't imagine how good (or deeply wretched) that must be.
DaveFaris at 11:54AM on 02/08/08
Devour it.....if it's the real thing. I like it slightly sweetened with pure vanilla extract. It's good on most desserts, and I especially love it on hot chocolate, Irish coffee and other dessert coffees.....oh, and eggnog too. I'm not much of an ice cream eater, but what'a an ice cream sundae without whipped cream? Since I love it so much, I only make it on holidays so I don't blow up like a balloon.
My Mother always made fresh whipped cream, but Daddy liked to buy the stuff in the can and squirt it into our mouths. I can tolerate that stuff if it's made with real cream, but it's not the same as heavy cream whipped.
PerkyMac at 11:58AM on 02/08/08
Detested it as a kid. Scraped it off anything it appeared on. It was almost entirely a texture thing for me, and could practically provoke a gag reflex. Actually, I've never much liked anything foamy, spongy or airy in texture (meringue, angel food cake, mousse, marshmallows, chocolate truffles, etc.). Nowadays, I'll eat whipped cream, and a few of those other things, like angel food, but I still don't much care for that texture, and tend to avoid it.
Much prefer unwhipped cream, ice cold, lightly sweetened, maybe a bit of vanilla, and drizzled over certain contrasting foods, like ripe raspberries! MMMmmmmm...
LoCo at 12:16PM on 02/08/08
I love whipped cream. Not cool whip though. I must admit that I keep a can of redi whip in my frig and squirt it right in my mouth to eat. I have thinking about buying a whipped cream dispenser to make my own, but i think that would be dangerous.
eatmyfood at 1:42PM on 02/08/08
Cool Whip is a petroleum product and I think I have enough of that type of stuff at work in my car. It's either fresh whipped cream or nothing.
The last time I prepared T-Giving for my mom and her posse, they all said they can't remember the last time they had real whipped cream. They spent so much time eating diet this and diet that, it was like Heaven to have real whipped cream - which I might add I whipped by hand with a drop of vanilla and a bit of sugar. Nobody had "that much" each just a dollop - but they all loved it.
chiff0nade at 2:19PM on 02/08/08
I love plain, unsweeted whipped cream on flourless chocolate cake. Or with angel cake and strawberries. You know, if you sandwich a couple of heaping tablespoons of Cool Whip between chocolate graham cracker squares and freeze them, they're actually pretty darned good, in a yummy junk food kinda way.
chisai at 3:11PM on 02/08/08
Good question!
I deTEST whipped cream! Everytime I accidentally eat some, my stomach almost instantly feels bigger. It's like the volume of whipped cream and the volume of growth our bodies endure from eating whipped cream is a direct relationship!
And I just don't think it tastes very good.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 4:59PM on 02/08/08
Some say yay & others say nay...are you brand loyal? What else do you do with heavy cream?
JEP at 5:58PM on 02/08/08
I use heavy cream in my cheesecakes; thicken sauces and enrich just about anything :D.
chiff0nade at 8:12PM on 02/08/08
I love whipped cream!! Heavy cream with real vanilla and a little bit of sugar, yum. I will occasionally get a can for an emergency (could there be such a thing as a whipped cream emergency? I think so) I never buy cool whip but am not above eating it if I encounter it somewhere, something about that taste reminds me of being a kid eating it at a friends house, because we never had it at home it was a treat. i had no idea at the time that most people would consider real whipped cream a treat.
mrsmoosie at 5:37PM on 02/09/08
I find powdered sugar is the easiest sweetener to whip into cream...how else have you flavored it for topping desserts? Espresso pwd? Spices?
JEP at 5:43PM on 02/09/08
Ok, if nobody else is going to say it - whipped cream can enhance romance. Sheesh.......it's nearly Valentine's Day and romance is in the air. It's not as cold as ice cream. ;)
PerkyMac at 11:51PM on 02/09/08