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So do you guys ever watch those videos of people using whipped cream on
their cakes and it's like super smooth and super white and you're like that is definitely not what
my whipped cream looks like. Well in today's video i'm going to be breaking down the world of whipped
cream for you guys and i'm going to be showing you how to whip up the perfect whipped cream for your
cakes. If you're new to my channel then welcome and if you enjoy this video please give it a
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So let's start off with the different types of whipping cream that you can get. Now i'm literally
just going to dump a whole bunch of information on you guys right now but i promise you it's got so
much value to it when it comes to cake decorating so just bear with me. So there's two main types
of whipping cream that you can get first being a dairy whipping cream so that will either be fresh
or ultra pasteur... ultra pasteurized, or a non-dairy whipping cream which basically has no kind of
milk solids or fats in it. Now there is also a third type of whipping cream which I've termed a
hybrid buttercream but it's basically a non-dairy whipping cream and i'll talk more about that later
So let's start off with dairy whipping cream, now dairy whipping cream is predominantly made up of
milk fats and a lot of people might term it as you know what we call real cream and there's
many different brands that you can find around the world. Now fresh cream tastes amazing and
it's usually unsweetened so you can use it in both cooking and as a topping on both you know
sweet and savory desserts and of course it can be whipped up to use as you know like an icing for
cake decorating and if you were using it for more of a dessert then you'd usually add some sort of
sweetener or flavoring to it. Now one of the major drawbacks when it comes to dairy whipping cream
is that it's not very stable and it loses its consistency quite quickly which makes it difficult
when it comes to cake decorating especially if you stay in a really humid climate. Now let's move
on to non-dairy whipping creams, now non-dairy whipping creams are predominantly made up of
vegetable fats and they already have stabilizers put into them which make them super great when it
comes to cake decorating. They're also usually referred to as a whipped topping so they're
often labeled that way as well and again there are many different brands which are found all over the
world. Now the only thing to be careful about when it comes to a non-dairy whipping cream is making
sure that you choose one that actually tastes good because it is essentially you know an artificial
whipping cream or what some people might call a mock cream so you really want to make sure that
you know you tried out a few different brands and you get one that actually tastes good. Now
lastly i've decided to add a little subcategory which i have termed a hybrid buttercream but it's
really just a non-dairy whipping cream, it's not a hybrid buttercream, but basically what it is it's a
whipped topping which has some milk solids in it so what you might find is you know you're going
to the supermarket you pick up a whipped topping and it's got all the you know usual hydrogenated
vegetable oil and all that kind of stuff which is in a usual non-dairy whipped topping but then it
seems milk solid somewhere in there so in terms of you know consistency and stability and the way it
whips up and the color and all that kind of stuff is exactly the same as a non-dairy whipping cream
the only reason why i've added it in here is just so that you guys don't get confused when
you know choosing between a dairy and a non-dairy whipping cream. Now for the purposes of this video
i am going to just include those kind of whipped creams under what i call a non-dairy whipping
cream, but this is again only for the purposes of cake decorating so i'm not taking into account
you know any allergies or things like that so just keep that in mind. And now we come to the important
question, so do i use a dairy or a non-dairy whipping cream when it comes to decorating my
cakes? Now both are absolutely fine and they'll get the job done but if you're looking for something
to decorate your cakes with that's going to give you those super smooth sides and sharp edges and
you can do some you know amazing piping with it without losing the consistency too quickly then i
would highly recommend using a non-dairy whipping cream. It's far more stable especially when the
weather is hot and the consistency is just way better to deal with and like i said before you can
find non-dairy whipping cream in heaps of places around the world and there's many different brands
But here in New Zealand it's actually almost impossible to find a non-dairy whipping cream
and that's because we are really lucky to have access to really high quality dairy here so people
just tend to use fresh cream and when it comes to cakes and you know cake decorating, because
we have access to high quality butter people just tend to use buttercream as their preferred icing
option, but luckily enough we do have one non-dairy whipping cream here which is called Whip'n'Ice
and that can be found at Gilmore's and at special cake decorating shops if you're based in New
Zealand and wondering where you can get access to that but basically that's what i'm going to
be using today to make my whipped cream, so now i'm going to show you guys how I whip this up
now when it comes to whipping up cream the first thing that you want to do is you want
to start off with a bowl and an attachment, so in this case i'm using my whisk attachment, that's
been placed in the fridge for about 10 minutes, you can also use a hand mixer for this as well,
so just place the kind of two you know whisk attachments into the fridge as well along with
the bowl that you're using to make your whipping cream and this is just going to help your cream
whip up a lot better. Now the next thing you want to keep in mind is with these non-dairy
whipping creams a lot of the time they increase in volume quite a bit so you want to make sure that
you're not over filling your bowl otherwise your whipping cream is not going to whip properly, so
in the case of my whipped cream it says to fill the bowl to a 20% capacity and no more than that so
usually on the you know packaging it will tell you how much you should fill your bowl
now next thing that i'm going to do is i'm simply going to pour one cup of my Whip'n'Ice into my
mixer and i'm just going to mix that on a medium speed until i reach stiff peaks
so i've just poured in about just over a cup of my whipped cream and
that should be enough to ice a six inch three layer cake or an eight inch two
layer cake. Now i'm going to whip this up on a medium speed because if you whip your
cream at too high of a speed then what's going to happen is you're going to incorporate way
too many air bubbles into your whipped cream and it's not going to be really nice and smooth so
just make sure that you're not whipping it up at too high of a speed
so my mixture's been going for about six minutes or so now and you can see that
we've reached the soft peak stage so i just wanted to show you guys what that looks like
if i just give it a little mix when i pick up my whisk i've got a peak there on the top but
it's not staying upright which means that we're at a soft peak stage, so at this point if your
whipping cream that you're using isn't flavoured or sweetened then this is the time that you would
add any flavors or sweeteners as well as colorings as well if you were coloring your whipped cream
now the whipped cream that i'm using today is already flavoured and it's sweetened and
it tastes amazing so i am good to go i'm just going to keep whipping until i reach a stiff peak
so my whipped cream has been going for another three minutes or so so all together this whipped
cream took me about maybe just under 10 minutes to kind of get it to that stiff peak stage so
it looks like we are there now so if i lift up some of my whipped cream you can see there
that i've got a nice stiff peak which is staying upright and you can also see it there in the bowl
as well. So that is how you know that your whipped cream is ready and that is basically it when it
comes to whipping cream. Now two quick tips for you guys once you've finished whipping your cream is
firstly if you notice that there are too many air bubbles in your whipped cream so it's not kind of
really nice and smooth like my one is, then what you can do is simply mix your cream on
the lowest speed on your mixer for about a minute or two and then this should help remove some of
those air bubbles. Now if you're scared of over mixing your whipped cream if it looks like you
know if you keep mixing it it's just going to get over whipped, then what you can do is just
hand mix it with a spatula and this will help to remove some of those air bubbles
now on the other hand if you feel like you have over whipped your cream and it just looks like
it's splitting and it's you know not quite where it should be, then what you can do is simply add
some of your liquid whipped cream into your whipped whipped cream, i'd only do about a
tablespoon at a time, until you kind of get it back to the consistency it needs to be at
and simply just fold that through with a spatula and that will help you fix your uh you know split
or broken or over whipped whipped cream and yeah that is basically it so before i finish this video
i'm going to really quickly show you guys how beautiful it is to pipe with this whipped cream
so what i've got here is i've got a whipped cream cake and i've got my whipping cream in a piping
bag with a 1M tip on it which is basically a star tip nozzle and i'm simply going to show you guys
just how beautifully smooth this whipping cream is and how amazing it is to pipe with
like just how smooth does that look
and that is basically it guys that is how you create beautiful light and fluffy whipped cream
which is an absolute dream to you know decorate and pipe with. As you can see we're left with
a really beautiful crisp finish and yeah that's basically it so i hope you guys enjoyed this video
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