How to Whip Cream

Preparation info
  • 2 to 3 cups

    of whipped cream.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup chilled heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
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Method

In warm weather particularly, it is important that the cream and mixing bowl for whipped cream be chilled. Add the cream to the mixing bowl and beat rapidly with a wire whisk, electric mixer, or rotary beater until mixture stands in peaks. Then beat in the sugar and vanilla. As the cream becomes increasingly frothy and thickened, lift the beater to test for thickness. The completed cream must b