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Original poster

To not use Double cream on the Christmas Trifle?

76 replies

LauraSaidIShouldBeNicer · 21/12/2023 13:52

Help me decide.... I am making individual trifles for Christmas day dessert. I am making them Christmas eve, normally I use Double cream and icing sugar mixture for the top, but this year I've been to costco and got a huge spray cream to use over Christmas. Would it be so bad to use spray cream on top just before serving?

OP posts:
Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 21/12/2023 14:28

The ONLY use for squirty cream is for squirting directly into your mouth in a guilty fashion every time you pass the fridge.

It's not for actual eating.

MereDintofPandiculation · 21/12/2023 14:33

Look for whipping cream, which is cheaper than double cream

kitsuneghost · 21/12/2023 14:34

Would prefer it blank than squirty cream
Bleurghh!!

Moredarkchocolateplease · 21/12/2023 14:36

Eugh! But also you put SUGAR in your whipped cream?! My mind is blown.

A few years ago someone told me they cook their carrots in sugar at Xmas. Mind blown again!

I'm a fan of the plain whipped cream, birds custard approach 😀

StoneColdAlibi · 21/12/2023 14:37

A large bowl of squirty cream, drizzled in chocolate sauce is actually a really delicious thing

pinkspeakers · 21/12/2023 14:39

Depends on your audience. Personally I think spray cream is pretty disgusting. But then I wouldn't add icing sugar to the cream either. Whipped cream and some toasted flaked almonds on top please.

But if you know other people like it then go ahead!

Jingleballs2 · 21/12/2023 14:41

Itsallgoingtopot · 21/12/2023 14:08

Or for playing pie face!

I have 2 tins ready 🤣

CoatOfArms · 21/12/2023 14:41

I don't know what they put in spray cream, but it's awful. You will ruin your trifles.

mrswhiplington · 21/12/2023 14:43

I can just imagine another post on here on Boxing Day, "AIBU - my host used squirty cream on my trifle".😃

cezannesapple · 21/12/2023 14:46

I love squirty cream on a hot chocolate but not on a trifle.

Tiredalwaystired · 21/12/2023 14:52

Oh please don’t ruin Christmas! No to squirty cream!

viques · 21/12/2023 14:55

Good to hear you have thought long and hard about this OP, and now realise what a huge mistake squirty cream would be if you have gone to all the trouble of making home made trifle.

Whatineed · 21/12/2023 15:02

Moredarkchocolateplease · 21/12/2023 14:36

Eugh! But also you put SUGAR in your whipped cream?! My mind is blown.

A few years ago someone told me they cook their carrots in sugar at Xmas. Mind blown again!

I'm a fan of the plain whipped cream, birds custard approach 😀

Tom Kerridgr cooks his carrots in sugar with a block of butter at Christmas. I tried it one year and the whole family complained. 😂😂😂

It's very normal in Europe, particularly Germany, to add sugar and a powder binding agent to cream to keep it firm on cakes. But it does taste very different.

Original poster
LauraSaidIShouldBeNicer · 21/12/2023 15:23

Adding icing sugar to double cream is a game changer. So much more indulgence 😋

OP posts:
FranticallyFrank · 21/12/2023 15:29

I always put sugar in my cream! Blowing my mind that this is new information for some people. A little bit of vanilla essence can work as well.

ActuallyChristmas · 21/12/2023 15:29

StoneColdAlibi · 21/12/2023 14:13

I love the term 'a casual crumble' 😄

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Me too 😀 Is formal crumble with warm custard and informal with single cream or Devon pot custard?

SecondUsername4me · 21/12/2023 15:33

Trifles should have packet Dream Topping imo Grin you can save all your fancy whipped fresh shite.

ChristmasAgainWTAF · 21/12/2023 15:34

It'll melt too fast and not hold. You can buy extra thick double cream, it's amazing. It'll whip up in seconds. I use it instead of double for everything now.

ActuallyChristmas · 21/12/2023 15:41

Speaking of cream etc., does anyone else find the arrary of accompaniments to pud or mince pies exhausting?

M and S have cream - thick, luxury thick, double, single, clotted, speculous, luxury and non luxury brandy - butters - luxury and non luxury brandy. Plus Lancastrian hubbie has requested Cumberland rum butter, Amazon etc. Oddly, no salted caramel cream this year in M and S and I don’t think I’ve seen brandy sauce.

We tried the speculous cream, it was dull. The DH can’t handke the idea of thick cream but likes brandy and rum butter an odd spot of single cream. I think single cream is yucky on pud and prefer custard. The DS and I can’t understand how brandy cream is not just grown up/sophisticated brandy butter. Anyway the fridge gets a bit full of these things 😂

wideawakeinthemiddleofthenightagain · 21/12/2023 15:45

If you can't be bothered to whip the cream, extra thick double cream can just be slathered on instead. This was a supermarket substitution on one occasion and worked surprisingly well

nepthysrising · 21/12/2023 15:57

Spray cream is fresh air and a bit of wet stuff. It's awful! If you must have it, serve it on the side. But why not just whip normal cream?

Doingmybest12 · 21/12/2023 15:57

Someone said about whipping extra thick double cream. I didn't think you could whip it and Google agrees with me.

superplumb · 21/12/2023 16:12

No get the real stuff. It doesn't take long to whip up and it's cheaper I think. I quote like spray cream too but it seems to kinda wilt after a few mins ? I think eventually it would go runny.

And yes, I add a tablespoon of icing sugar to my double cream before whipping. Tastes 100% better

GodDammitCecil · 21/12/2023 16:20

The things that blow people’s minds on here are …. mind blowing.

How is it ‘mind blowing’ to add some icing sugar to whipped cream, when it’s for a dessert….?

GodDammitCecil · 21/12/2023 16:20

I mean - it might be new information, but ‘mind blowing’….. ?