
The cream will be liquid but it will thicken in the refrigerator and will end up looking like a thick heavy cream. At this point, you do not want to see any fat particle leftover floating on the surface of your cream. We then blend the milk at high speed so that the fat incorporated into the milk –this is the emulsion. This is done by doing an emulsion to incorporate the added fat into our plant-based milk.įirst, we melt our fat with some hot soy milk that has been infused with some vanilla bean. So we need to create a plant-based milk that has enough fat content to compare to whipping cream.
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RELATED: How to make a Vegan Frangipane – Classic Almond French Filling Vegan heavy cream And we are using coconut cream, which has a very strong flavor.įor example, if we compare 100g of coconut cream with 100g of dairy heavy cream, the coconut cream has 34.7g of fat while a whipping heavy cream needs a minimum of 36g of fat for the same amount, but can sometimes go up to 40%. But even when we are taking only the cream from the cans of coconut, we are nowhere near the amount of fat we need to copy dairy cream. So when other vegans started the same the quest to vegan heavy cream, they went with the next best alternative, coconut cream. The high amount of fat that is in dairy-based whipped cream is the reason whipped cream gains some volume and structure once whipped. There is currently no existing naturally produced plant-based milk that has a high enough fat content to truly be considered a cream.

So after too many bad coconut whipped cream experience - and way too many times forgetting to put the cans in the fridge- I decided to embark on the quest to find a better, coconut milk-free, pipable (hell yes!) vegan whipped cream.and I succeeded! The problem with vegan whipped cream Yeah, I don’t hold my punches when it comes to pastry. Yes, coconut whipped cream is all the craze right now, but the perfectionist pastry chef in my is not totally on board.Įvery time I try coconut whipped cream, I always end up thinking “ Man, what a shame! The whole dessert just tastes like coconut and nothing else! And what a weird texture >:( ” Unfortunately, recipes for a good vegan whipped cream that is light tasting, stable, and pipable are hard to find.

Whipped cream, also known as Crème Chantilly or Chantilly cream is traditionally made by whipping heavy cream with sugar and is flavored with vanilla.

In my humble opinion, there is nothing more French than baguettes, croissants, and whipped cream. Crème Chantilly: veganizing a french classic
