Saturday Sweetly: Whipped Cream

Today's recipe is short and sweet-both figuratively and literally. It needs only two ingredients and 10 minutes of your time.

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While there are only two ingredients, one of them can be expensive, so we only make this
whipped cream from the leftover heavy whipping cream from making another recipe using it. The two ingredients needed are:

• Heavy whipping cream
• sugar

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There actually is no measurement involved in this recipe, either.  To start the recipe, you will need to refrigerate the bowl you will be mixing in, and the beater(s). This is so when you beat the cream, it does not get too hot from a warm bowl and cause the cream to break. 

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 Then, after the bowl and beaters are refrigerated, take them out of the fridge and add the whipping cream to the  bowl. Add in a tablespoon of sugar and beat on high for 1 minute. Check to see if the cream is stiff (ours usually is not), then add in at least one more tablespoon of sugar and beat again for about 20 seconds. Keep adding sugar and beating until the heavy whipping cream is stiff.

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   Once the whipped cream is made, either use it immediately or put it in a resealable container to use at a later time. Don't wait too long, though; it is still dairy and will go bad! Also, don't leave it out too long or it will begin to melt and break apart. 

   So there you go, a nice simple recipe that maybe more expensive, but better tasting than, the store-bought stuff. Hope you try this easy recipe and enjoy it!