Fresh Cream or Sour Cream Sauces

Crème fraîche, Devonshire cream, clotted cream, and sour cream are all used as dessert sauces and toppings, sometimes thinned and/or sweetened. They most frequently accompany fresh fruit but are also served with warm baked fruit desserts, such as an apple tart. These may be flavored with vanilla or a spice—for example, cinnamon. Fresh cream is used as a sauce both in the form of heavy cream that is lightly thickened by whipping and whipped cream, or Chantilly cream, which is really more of a topping.