Hints from Heloise - Cream - Differences

By Hklbrries

Dear Heloise: What are the differences among heavy cream, light cream and whipping cream? — A Reader, via email

There is a lot of difference! And it's mostly fat and calories. Heavy cream has 36 percent to 40 percent butterfat, light cream has 18 percent to 30 percent butterfat (most often it contains 20 percent), and whipping cream has 30 percent butterfat.

Cream rises to the surface of whole milk and is labeled according to the butterfat content. Heavy cream, used in baked goods as filling or frosting, doubles in volume and holds its shape well when whipped. Light cream usually is added to coffee or other hot drinks in place of milk.

Whipping cream doesn't whip quite as well (doesn't make sense to me, since it's called whipping cream!) or hold its shape as well, so it most often is used as a filling. — Heloise

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