Description
This easy stabilized whipped cream frosting will keep in the fridge for a couple days without collapsing into a watery mess. It’s thick enough to pipe, but it doesn’t have any kind of starchy taste that lingers on your tongue.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup heavy cream, preferably without added thickeners (236 mL)
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla sugar (use homemade vanilla sugar or Native Vanilla vanilla sugar)
- 10 mini marshmallows (see note)
Instructions
- Chill the bowl and beaters you’ll be whipping your cream in for about 10 minutes.
- When you’re ready to make your whipped cream, pour the cream and measure the vanilla sugar into the chilled bowl.
- Melt the mini marshmallows in the microwave until they are puffy but soft on the outside. It should take about 30-45 seconds depending on your microwave.
- Stir the marshmallows, and if they can be stirred into a smooth goo, they’re ready to go in the cream. If not, zap them for a few more seconds.
- Scrape the melted marshmallows into the cream, and then beat the cream until the cream holds its shape. This should take about 3-5 minutes depending on your mixer. When you can take out the beater and the cream doesn’t fall off the beater, you’re good to go.
- Use the frosting right away, either spooning or piping it on top of another baked good or using it as a filling.
See the notes for other flavor variations.
Notes
Freshness: Make sure that the marshmallows are from a new package. If the marshmallows have dried out at all, they will not incorporate smoothly into the whipped cream.
Flavors:
- Lemon sugar: use it in place of the sugar.
- Raspberry Jam: add 2 tablespoons to the base recipe.
- Blueberry jam:add 2 tablespoons to the base recipe.
- Strawberry jam: add 2 tablespoons to the base recipe.
- Nutella: use 1/4 cup for 3/4 cup of cream.
- Coffee: add 1 tsp espresso powder in the base recipe.
- Prep Time: 1 minute
- Cook Time: n/a
- Category: Baking Building Blocks
- Method: Mixer
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 127
- Sugar: 18.4
- Sodium: 27.3
- Fat: 2.9
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 25.9
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 0.8
- Cholesterol: 8.5