“Heavy cream is a type of issues that’s all the time in my fridge,” writes cookbook creator Stacey Ballis. “It’s the proper option to easy out a sauce, add a creamy texture to a dessert, and is crucial for creamy soups, unbeatable mashed potatoes, decadent cocktails, and so many different scrumptious recipes.”
Whereas heavy cream has an extended fridge life than other forms of dairy milk — all that scrumptious fats is a preservative, in spite of everything — as soon as opened, you are still working towards the clock to make use of it earlier than it goes unhealthy. Probably the most opulent, and busy, amongst us (learn: me) might go for notably wealthy, creamy cups of tea or espresso till the carton goes dry. However for these extra bold (or who take their caffeinated drinks black), we collected a few of our favourite recipes for this exact objective.
Please notice that, since a typical carton measurement for heavy cream is a pint, these recipes require only one cup of heavy cream or much less — half of a pint. If you happen to nonetheless end up barely brief, you can also make up the distinction with a heavy cream substitute comparable to crème fraîche or entire milk with a little bit of melted butter.
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Creamy Spaghetti Carbonara
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Probably the most conventional variations of carbonara don’t embrace cream, however Atlanta-based restaurateur and cookbook creator Anne Quatrano ups the richness right here. She tosses just-cooked spaghetti in rendered pancetta fats and a creamy, eggy sauce that is loosened with pasta cooking water. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Inexperienced Curry Lobster Stew with Candy Potato and Mushrooms
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The cooks behind Portland, Maine’s beloved Eventide Oyster Co. know that, on the finish of the day, Maine cooking is loads about lobsters. “Lobster stew is among the pillars of Maine cooking,” say Mike Wiley and Andrew Taylor. This model, impressed by the flavors of tom kha, enrich it with each heavy cream and coconut milk (and fish sauces in addition to). This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bars
Baker and cookbook creator Sarah Kieffer confesses that pumpkin pie is not normally her first selection. “In all honesty I’ll all the time take a slice of the rest over it, particularly if cheesecake is an possibility. However pumpkin pie swirled into cheesecake? I’ll by no means say no.” These bars ship on that dream, combining tangy swirls of cream cheese marbled with spiced pumpkin pie filling. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Luscious Tandoori Lamb Chops
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Chef Suvir Saran shares a recipe impressed by the Mughal delicacies discovered within the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) space of Delhi. Specifically, he interprets the heaps of spices and lengthy creamy marinades discovered within the century-old restaurant Karim’s to American properties, the place lamb chops might be grilled relatively than cooked in a searing tandoor. This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
Honey Mustard Beer Cheese Fondue
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An actual melting pot, this American tackle the Swiss delicacy combines a bottle of Pilsner with honey mustard and many cheese. This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
Fluffy Pancakes with Masa Harina, Strawberries, and Cream
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2023 F&W Greatest New Chef Emmanuel Chavez finds good cause so as to add corn all through the menu of his Houston-based restauraunt Tatemó. (In any case, he nixtamalizes 80 kilos of masa every week there.) For his pancakes, he combines equal components masa harina and all-purpose wheat flour. This recipe requires 3/4 cup of heavy cream, which turns into the whipped cloud Chavez additional piles with macerated strawberries.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
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This hearty soup will get its taste from roughly 13 cups of dried and recent mushrooms, plus Hungarian candy paprika, dill, and different aromatics. Do not forget the dairy! This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
Tiramisu Sundae
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A mascarpone-infused whipped cream helps replicate the flavour profile of tiramisu in sundae format. This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
King Ranch Casserole
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This Tex-Mex casserole combines tortillas, shredded rotisserie rooster, melty cheese, tomatoes with inexperienced chile, avocados, cilantro, bitter cream, in addition to crunchy salsa macha verde. This recipe requires 3/4 cup of heavy cream and might be ready partly forward of time.
Oatmeal Cream Pies
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Chicago pastry chef Sarah Mispagel-Lustbader combines molasses, oats, and bits of toffee in chewy cookies that sandwich a light-weight, creamy, vanilla-scented filling. This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
Creamy Tuscan Lobster Pasta
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Luscious cream, aromatic garlic, nutty Parmesan, butter, and sun-dried tomatoes make up this silky and wealthy pasta sauce. 4 shell-on lobster-tails take the dish excessive in the easiest way. This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Child Peas with Bacon and Crispy Leeks
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Fried leeks and flecks of bacon high this dish of creamy peas. A cornstarch slurry added towards the top of cooking helps thicken the liquid, yielding a shiny and wealthy sauce. This recipe requires 3/4 cup of heavy cream.
Georgia Peach Pie with Bourbon Whipped Cream
Cara Cormack
Leftover heavy cream shines as a garnish: this dessert’s Bourbon Whipped Cream. Made with Kentucky bourbon, sugar, and vanilla extract, it matches the flavour profile of the peach pie like nothing else. You may all the time swap it out for vanilla ice cream, however that is not fairly as enjoyable. (Alternatively, you possibly can swap out the pie for one thing else on which to place the whipped cream.) This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Mushroom Flatbread with White Miso
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Topped with oven-roasted mushrooms and a miso-cream sauce, store-bought flatbread makes this party-friendly appetizer simple to tug off. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Tarte Tropézienne (Brioche Cake with Pastry Cream)
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Named (by Bridgitte Bardot no much less) after its native land, this cake seems to be deceptively informal. In reality, the wealthy brioche, velvety vanilla pastry cream, and crunchy pearl sugar high reward those that plan — and make — forward. Summon up your individual cinematic Saint-Tropez summer season with this crowd-pleaser. This recipe requires 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
Salmon with New Potatoes, Spinach, and Cider Cream
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Galway-based chef Jp McMahon boils down cider then provides a little bit of cream to serve over golden-brown potatoes, vibrant spinach, and crisp-skinned salmon on this weeknight-friendly however weekend-looking meal. This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Cream of Mushroom Soup
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Caramelized mushrooms and a splash of sherry make this wealthy, woodsy soup value it. Prepare dinner down 9 cups of cremini and shiitake mushrooms earlier than including broth and herbs and mixing; the cream is stirred in on the finish. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Creamy Ramp Pasta with Asparagus
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This spring pasta highlights the transient garlicky glory of ramp season, balancing a pointy nutty pesto out with wealthy cream and a beneficiant unfold of recent ricotta on the serving plates. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Bitter Cream–Vanilla Birthday Cake with Chocolate-Orange Frosting
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Pastry chef and author Ruby Tandoh shares a wealthy, orange-scented cake whose advanced flavors belie its one-bowl batter simplicity. The addition of bitter cream to that batter lends further moisture and tenderness, in addition to a touch of tang. This recipe calls for two/3 cup of heavy cream.
Creamy Hen Noodle Soup
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A splash of cream and some tablespoons of white miso up the creamy and umami components on this surprisingly quick-to-make rooster noodle soup. (It is prepared in simply 25 minutes.) This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Salted Watermelon Ice Cream
Watermelon juice, salt, sugar, and lime zest style like the very best components of a scorching summer season day, and people flavors are locked right into a creamy base on this simple mushy serve recipe. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Creamy Tomato Rigatoni
Julia Hartbeck
Sommelier Derrick C. Westbrook of Chicago’s 1340 Beer Wine Spirits dreamed up this pasta dish, which he says makes an excellent pairing for wine. “I nonetheless love creamy tomato sauce on brief pasta, paired with juicy, recent crimson wines like Zweigelt or unoaked Cabernet Franc that provide only a contact of funk and medium acidity.” This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Lemony Layered Cheesecake
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This icebox cake from Justin Chapple is all about meeting — not baking. Mix mascarpone with heavy cream, then fold in shiny lemon curd earlier than arranging layers of graham crackers and the lemon cream in a loaf pan. Do not forget to pile it excessive with blueberries. This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Spinach and Goat Cheese Quiche
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Chef Christophe Côte of Le Beef Lodge within the French Alps prepares this basic quiche with an entire pound of spinach, which cooks down quickly. (Bear in mind to squeeze the spinach dry earlier than including it to the pastry shell.) This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Cream of Onion Soup
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Roasted garlic and onions are blended with rooster inventory, heavy cream, and a beneficiant portion of butter. Do not forget the splash of wine on the baking sheet towards the top of roasting or the grated Parmesan cheese to complete. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Thanksgiving Leftovers Pie
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A near-effortless improve to Thanksgiving leftovers, this dish requires solely that you simply prepare your current elements in a baking dish. Layer mashed potatoes, gravy, turkey, greens, cream, and cranberry sauce, then seal with puff pastry and bake till golden brown. If you happen to’ve eaten a Thanksgiving meal, you already know these make for an amazing mixture. This recipe requires 3/4 cup plus 2 teaspoons of heavy cream.
Melted Ice Cream Cake
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In her cookbook Malai: Frozen Desserts Impressed by South Asian Flavors, ice cream impresario Pooja Bavishi references when melted ice cream cake was common on social media. This recipe is the results of her personal tremendous tuning, with heavy cream added to the icing and whipped cream to high. This recipe calls for two tablespoons of heavy cream for the icing. Whipped cream might be made (or purchased) as desired.
Fettuccine Alfredo with Asparagus
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A one-pot dish designed for weeknights, this creamy pasta stars vibrant asparagus, which conveniently cooks in the identical water because the pasta. This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Bourbon-Pecan-Apple Pie with Cinnamon Whipped Cream
This bourbon-infused and cinnamon whipped cream–topped deal with means nobody has to decide on between a slice of apple or pecan pie at Thanksgiving. James Beard Award–successful chef and cookbook creator Alexander Smalls likes to make use of Fuji apples, which retain their texture whereas turning into pleasantly mushy. This recipe requires 1 cup of heavy cream.
Spinach and Artichoke Dip Potato Crust Quiche
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This quiche brings spinach and artichoke dip to the brunch desk. The tangy custard-like filling, chock stuffed with child spinach and jarred artichoke hearts, is encased in a crisp potato crust. Let it relaxation to permit the filling to totally set. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Do-it-yourself Butter
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Cookbook creator Stacey Ballis makes the case for selfmade butter: It is easy! It is recent. And it is endlessly adaptable, particularly for compound butter. Whereas you can also make butter with a hand mixer or meals processor, a stand mixer reigns supreme. This recipe calls for two cups of heavy cream and might be scaled up or down.
King Cake
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The monarch of Mardi Gras baking, king desserts are ubiquitous in New Orleans as soon as Carnival season begins. However sans conventional Mardi Gras colours (right here represented by gold, purple, and inexperienced sprinkles), you may get away with making this tender, cinnamon-y cake any time of yr. Chef Melissa M. Martin tackle the standard candy was impressed by model her mom made. This recipe requires 1/2 cup of heavy cream.