Home-Made Whipped Cream

Can't go to the store?  Too lazy to drive there?  Just make some whipped cream at home!

What You'll Need: 

• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2-3 tbsp of white cane sugar
• 1/4 tsp vanilla (optional)

Procedure:

1. Take the cream, sugar, and vanilla and you can do one of two things:
1. Quicker way: Put the ingredients into a bullet container (or something similar to the Magic Bullet) and whip until it is the consistency of whipped cream
2. Longer way: put all ingredients into a plastic container with a tight lid and shake until it is the consistency of whipped cream.
2. When the whipped cream is ready just use a spoon to place it on whatever you'd like!

Don't want whipped cream?  How about sweet butter?  Just keep blending/shaking the whipped cream and it'll turn into soft butter (refrigeration is suggested before use of the butter so it holds its shape better).

Why Eat This?

Well, look at the ingredients in Reddi-Wip® whipped cream:

INGREDIENTS:

Cream, nonfat milk, corn syrup, sugar, mono- and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavors, carrageenan, nitrous oxide (propellant).

How about Kraft® Cool Whip?:

INGREDIENTS:

Water, corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut palm kernel), high fructose corn syrup, less than 2% of: sodium caseinate (from milk), natural and artificial flavors, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate, beta carotene (color).

Do you even know what half of this stuff is without looking it up?  When you make whipped cream at home you know exactly what you are eating without having to look on a label and think "what is that?".