Synthetic cream used in cream cakes from bakery?

[waveydays]

Does anyone know the recipe or where you can get the cream used in bakery pastries, it's not buttercream but not real cream?

isnt it like the squirty cream you get in cans?

Oh I remember that. Weirdly white, you could tell by looking at it.

No idea where it came from or how you could make it though.

@loloballlolo

isnt it like the squirty cream you get in cans?

No that’s actually cream, with air. Artificial cream was something else. Squirty cream goes flat if you leave it, this was used in cakes etc and would keep its shape like normal cream.

I haven't seen synthetic cream cakes for years! It was unpleasant stuff, almost like whipped, sweetened lard. I think it might have been called mock cream, if you're looking for a recipe.

Here you go:

Macphie Mactop Traditional, Cream for Cakes and Doughnuts www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PNJTDNL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_XG3FYEH44ANBEG7B4SD5?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Thought this post was to say how horrible the stuff is! Why would you want it when you can have real cream?

Creme patisserie/pastry cream there are lots of recipes if you google.

It wasn't creme patissiere, it wasn't nice and is quite difficult to describe. Dream Topping but more solid.

its called mock cream

www.deliaonline.com/ask-lindsey/mock-cream

sorry

wrong link but there are loads of them e.g

cornercafe.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/mock-cream/

Can you please post a photo, @waveydays? I’m very curious now!

@Svara I'm making old school pastries for my nans 90th birthday, she loved them so wanted to try and make them how she remembers them

Thank you everyone

My nan (now 101yrs) used to make it. I recall her creaming butter/sugar, then swirling hot water around the bowl. It would dissolve the sugar and somehow made it go from a yellow butter colour to white. It was used when the cake/pastry needed to kept where there wasn't refrigeration for fresh cream. I found this recipe, but I don't recall any gelatine or cornflour in my nans
www.taste.com.au/recipes/mock-cream-recipe/v6spzlm0

www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/mock-cream-3/dhbk5qoe

@waveydays
I thought you meant the synthetic stuff with the aftertaste. The recipes @Hairyfriend posted look good though.

I always thought the squirty cream used in cakes was real cream. Until I was rudely awakened.

There's a bakery in Coleford still using it, if I remember correctly.

Eww it was horrible!

It had a nasty mouthfeel, and was the colour of Dulux Brilliant White gloss

I have a Mrs Beeton recipe for mock cream. It involves boiling some milk, thickening it with cornflour, then beating in some butter and sugar.

I am intrigued by the other mock cream recipes on this thread though and will give them a try

Loads of cake shops still do this. Especially old fashioned ones. Its great in donuts with the line of red sauce/jam.

I remember it as a kid. I loved it, especially in a dough nut with artificial tasting raspberry jam

My mum doesnt like cream we used to buy the long doughnuts with jam and this mock cream from sainsbury's. I loved it

It was called "confectioners cream".

I love that stuff! It's trashy but yum and can be found in cheap Swiss rolls. Yes, it's unnaturally white!