Making your own with an electric mixer takes only five minutes – but there’s an even quicker way to create the deliciously sweet accompaniment, experts have revealed.
And all you will need for the kitchen hack is a pot of heavy cream and a cocktail shaker.
You don’t need a whisk to make freshly whipped cream – just a cocktail shaker. And it will taste so much better than the processed stuff you get in a can from the supermarket
You will have homemade freshly whipped cream in just a minute or two by filling a cocktail shaker with cream, the corporate lead bartender and mixologist for Michael Mina’s Mina Group of restaurants, Brian Means, told The Kitchn.
Then, shake the container hard up and down, as if there was a golf ball or marble inside and you needed to make sure the ball looped around the entirety of the shaker.
‘Think like if you’re almost throwing a baseball or a football and then you’re pulling back hard, because you really want to get air incorporated into that cream, like whipping it around,’ explains Brian.
‘You’re trying to get more and more air into it so that’ll speed up the time that it’s going to go from a liquid cream to a heavier cream.’
If you don’t have an electric whisk or don’t want to spend many minutes beating cream by hand with a spoon, then try using a cocktail shaker instead
It may require more elbow grease than simply using an electric whisk, but you will have whipped cream in a shorter space of time.
It’s less laborious than whisking cream manually by hand, and as a bonus, it will give your arms a really good workout.
The hack also works with a Mason or jam jar, but a cocktail shaker will give the best results, according to Brian.
He said: ‘Shakers are great cold conductors and can chill down faster to help the cream change texture faster.
‘You can chill down the tin prior to shaking it and it’ll turn into whipped cream faster and have a stiffer texture.’