Whip It Good! Vanilla Whipped Cream Recipe

Not Too Sweet Vanilla Whipped Cream:

1 pint heavy whipping cream

2 tsp good vanilla(I use Morton & Bassett Spices Brand)

1 heaping tbsp powder sugar

Make sure your cream is very cold. Mix with an electric mixer on the highest setting until cream has thickened to the point of the beaters leaving tracks behind. Stop mixer and add the vanilla and sugar. Mix on high until the peaks stand up but not to the point where cream is fluffy but clumping together with a roughened texture. It is now about two seconds from being butter. If this happens you can add more cream if you have it to loosen it up a bit.

Side note on vanilla:

This sounds crazy, but you should spend about ten bucks on four ounces of vanilla. You may be asking, "Since when did gold and diamonds get added to vanilla?" No precious metals here, just great vanilla flavor that does not taste like rubbing alcohol. Trader Joe's and other common brands are good for the desperate alchoholic to get drunk on but bad for baking. Just treat yourself, that ten bucks will last you all year and buy you plenty of compliments.