HELP PLEASE - DOES ANY KNOW HOW TO RESCUE OVERWHIPPED CREAM?

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Left daughter in charge, its gone like scrambled egg. I don't have any more and its for a birthday present. Any remedies greatly appreciated please.

sorry - should have said its the filling for a cake

You can't. you now have some unsalted butter on your hands

It's basically turned into butter (or the beginnings of butter) so there is no way back.

Fill with jam instead...

No, it can't be rescued. If you have more cream you can try stirring in a bit to loosen it but generally it is a goner

add sugar and a tiny-tiny touch of salt and turn into buttercream filling for cake.

As it is screwed anyway you could always try putting some milk in and slowly stirring it in. Or booze to distract the taste?

I bloody love the internet.....the chemistry of whipping cream!

She has inverted the emulsion - it's now water droplets in oil, rather than oil droplets in water. No rescue. She has made butter.

Oh you guys are amazing. Thank you for all those replies.

Butter icing it is then. So hard to be a domestic goddess when the children help