Name: Perfect Homemade Whipped Cream
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 cup heavy cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 tablespoons granulated sugar

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The ultimate guide for how to make Perfect Homemade Whipped Cream at home! I’m sharing all my tips and tricks for light, fluffy, and creamy peaks you’ll want to serve with every dessert!

Close up photo of a light blue bowl that has whipped cream piped into it.

For me, the holidays are a great time to get back to basics.

Family, Friends, and Food.

It’s when we should take a little extra time and make a little extra effort in the kitchen in order to bring everyone together for good food and beautiful memories. In American culture, we tend to buy a lot of premade food items from the store, sure there are some things that just aren’t worth the time, for me that’s homemade pie crust. However, there are some things that are a million times better when made from scratch, cranberry sauce, Christmas cookies, and at the very top of the list: Homemade Whipped Cream!

Need a stiffer cream for frosting, add 2-3 tablespoons per cup of cream of instant jell-O pudding powder in the flavor of your choosing.

A small blue bowl filled with whipped cream with the ingredients to make it behind it.

Why buy something in a can that’s so quick and simple to make from home. Don’t let those gorgeous homemade desserts suffer the pain of an aerosol whipped cream, let them shine with a fresh dollop of the good stuff!

Whipped cream has always been a staple in my family during the holidays. My Nana whips it up between dinner and dessert so it’s absolutely perfect and fluffy for our pies and cocoas. But you can’t just throw some cream in the mixer and let it fly, that just ain’t gonna cut it! So today I’m going to share five wicked crucial tips to getting that Perfect Homemade Whipped Cream.

step-by-step photo collage showing how to make homemade whipped cream.

1. Cold: It is absolutely essential to have a cold bowl, cold beaters (whisk), and cold cream when you make whipped cream. You want the cream to stay cold during the whipping process because the chill helps form bigger fat bubbles, resulting in a quicker, lighter, and fluffier whipped cream.

2. Fat: The fat content is crucial to making great whip cream, you want to use a heavy or whipping cream, you want a cream that has a milk fat content of roughly 30-40%. It’s the fat molecules that join together in the whipping process to create the fat bubbles that essentially are whipped cream.

3. Sugar: Let’s face it, cream without sugar just kinda sucks. I like 3 tbsp per cup, but you can adjust to taste. The cream will be sweeter in a liquid form than when it’s actually whipped up.

4. Vanilla: It’s Whipped Cream’s BEST friend! Use REAL vanilla extract, no imitation is wanted here. You want a real smooth essence of flavor in your whipped cream that easily pairs with anything.

5. Speed: Start slow, this reduces splatter and allows time for those bubbles to begin developing and building a strong base for your whipped cream. You can begin to increase the speed once the cream starts to thicken and you start adding the sugar.

A small light blue bowl filled with piped whipped cream with a bag of whipped cream and a carton of heavy cream in the background.

Homemade Whipped Cream

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