How to whip cream

Place cold cream of at least 30% milk fat in a cold metal bowl. If required by the recipe or to make whipped cream to serve alongside a dessert, add icing sugar.

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Using a whisk or the whisk attachment to a mixer, whip the cream until it forms a soft peak when a spoon is dipped into it. This should take about 5 minutes. Vanilla extract or seeds from a vanilla bean can be added and the amount of sugar adjusted to taste once the soft peaks are formed.

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Do not over whip the cream or it will be hard and grainy and begin to turn into butter. See below:

How NOT to whip cream
How NOT to whip cream