How to Make Homemade Whipping Cream Using a Heavy Cream Substitute

Make whipping cream with a few simple ingredients.

Whipping cream is typically made with heavy cream, but the term heavy cream often scares people since it involves fat and calories. You may think you have to avoid recipes that call for heavy cream but you'll be happy to know that medium whipping cream can be used as a substitute for heavy cream, especially when making whipping cream.

Things You'll Need

• Bowl
• Electric mixer
• Whisk (if no electric mixer)
• 12 oz. carton of medium whipping cream
• Sugar
• Vanilla (optional)
• Other extract flavors (optional)

Instructions

1. Chill the cream and a mixing bowl in the refrigerator. Mix the cream, 1 tbsp. of sugar and 1 tsp. of vanilla in the chilled bowl with the electric mixer. Mix the ingredients on medium and it’ll start to thicken. You can use a whisk if you don’t have an electric mixer, but be forewarned it’s a lot more difficult to create whipping cream with a hand whisk.

2. Change the setting on the mixer from medium to high and mix the ingredients until they become firm and peaks form. Be sure to stop when you see peaks forming because if you keep mixing you’ll have homemade butter.

3. Chill the whipped cream if you’re not using it right away. You don’t have to include vanilla if you don’t want to. Instead of vanilla, you can use the same amount of various flavor extracts, such as almond, peppermint, banana or berry.

References

• O Chef: Substituting Evaporated Milk for Cream