Quick Question- cream

lynzpower

Can I freeze whipping cream. Still in the tub unopened, bought too much and dont want to waste it.

If not any ideas welcome for something very easy to make with it, from bog standard store cupbaord items adn no fruit as I dont like it!

Pink.

Hi lynzower,

Yes you can freeze both whipping cream and double cream providing you whip them first.

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Kazonline

Makes lush ice cream. I bought a real cheap ice cream maker a few months ago and it's whipping cream it uses. From what I can tell all the machine does is keep stirring it from time to time so perhaps this can be done by hand? The Vanilla ice cream is 1 and 1/2 cups cream 1/3cup sugar and 2tsp vanilla extract. Chocolate is 1 1/3 cup cream 1/4 cup cocoa 1/4 cup sugar and 1& 1/4 tsp vanilla extract.
Pretty sure you can just freeze and reuse the cream though - but not 100% sure ;-)

tina68

cream with a fat content of over 40% freezez better..whip b4 freezing..open freeze 'til firm..then cover .lasts for 3 months:D

purpleivy

tina68 wrote: »

cream with a fat content of over 40% freezez better..whip b4 freezing..open freeze 'til firm..then cover .lasts for 3 months:D

I got a load of extra thick single cream reduced price and was wondering if I could freeze it. I have made a batch of icecream, but to be honest, we can only eat so much icecream and hm icecream doesn't really stay very nice for long either.

I suppose the alternative is recipes that will use the single cream...but need to get cracking by tomorrow!

I'm trying to watch my weight, so don't want to make too much stuff to eat right away. Maybe I shouldn't have got so much of it, but it was only 10p a pot for 250mls Yeo organic.

Pink.

Hi purpleivy,

Single cream doesn't freeze well as it hasn't got a high enough fat content and tends to separate when frozen, unlike double and whipping cream which are fine to freeze provided they're whipped before freezing. I'm not sure though, whether being extra thick will make any difference or not.

This thread might give you some ideas on how to use it:

how to use up single cream?

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purpleivy

I just checked the cream. It's described as extra thick cream for spooning. It's 30% fat, so I shall cook with what I can then chance it with the rest. I'm sure it will be fine for cooking/baking, even if you wouldn't want to eat it as is.

Single cream is 18%. There is an extra thick single cream, but this has the same fat content, thickened by homogenisation.

Whipping cream is 38% and Double is 48%. Why do they call it double cream? Hmm

THis is an interesting link.
http://www.waitrose.com/recipes/glossarytermpopup.aspx?glossaryid=117&hideVideoLinks=true