Whipped cream

These are delicious. Anything made from whipped cream is.

I made a cake a couple weeks ago and it had a caramel whipped topping. The next morning I took the whipped cream off of a cupcake and put it in my coffee. Caramel flavored whipped cream in coffee on a Sunday morning? Yes please.

Then I thought, why not have flavored whipped cream dollops in my freezer at all times? I can add them to coffee or hot chocolate, or just eat them. So that’s what I did. I made 50 little frozen bite sized whipped dollops with four different flavors. This is how I did it.

Easy Scale: 1.5. The nicer you want them to look, the more work it will take. Mine are average on the nice-looking scale. I would love to see pictures when you make yours.

Tools:

The first picture is of some options for flavoring. I used vanilla, caramel, peppermint, cinnamon and cocoa powder. Red food coloring, too.

The second picture is what you need to make the whipped cream. One recipe says 1 cup of heavy whipping cream with 1 tablespoon of confectioners sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. I doubled the recipe and ended up with about 5 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Freeze the bowl you’ll be whipping in, whip the cream (with something electric is easiest), then add the powdered sugar and vanilla. Those you can add to taste. The texture of the whipped cream should be solid enough that it stays on the spoon. In this picture we’re almost there, not quite. One recipe says, “you should see soft peaks” but I didn’t like that. It reminded me of Song of Solomon.

When you’ve whipped it good, put most of the whipped cream in a piping bag (again, use a Ziploc with a cut corner if you want to) and pipe out dollops onto a cookie sheet with wax paper. I used tip #32.

I then sprinkled these with either 1) caramel 2) cocoa powder or 3) cinnamon.

I immediately put them into the freezer so they would hold their shape.

I took the remaining whipped cream and added peppermint extract to taste. I put that whipped cream in the same piping bag and piped out more dollops onto cookie sheets with wax paper.

To make them prettier and help to give people the idea that they are peppermint flavored, I dipped a toothpick into red food coloring and drew some stripes.