Heavy Cream Powder by Hoosier Hill Farm, 1LB (Pack of 1)

I wanted to have a dried form of cream in case I needed it. I don’t generally like to buy heavy cream because it goes bad quickly because I don’t use it often, but this works for my needs. You can make whipped cream with it, you can put it in smoothies and it’ll thicken it up like a milkshake, you can put it in coffee and it taste just like creamer. It’s perfect. However, I was reading that it’s not meant for every day use because of the chemical process that it takes to make it. But in moderation it works. And that’s really what I needed it for.

My husband and I bought this for a camping trip because we like cream, real cream in our coffee, I had tried powdered milk, but I may as well be adding water to my coffee, and so we looked in to buying some powdered cream and this was the best deal that we could find. I really like that the ingredients are just freeze dried cream, nothing more. I was a little bit weary of the taste, I thought it might taste weird, being it is dried, so I gave it a few different test to see how it fared. I first tried it with instant coffee, and it had a weird taste to it, and I was not impressed with the flavor of the cream, it tasted like cooked cream essentially, and I was very underwhelmed. Then, I tried it with real coffee, fresh brewed, and I had quite a different experience, it taste just like normal cream, maybe not really fresh cream, but it was perfect. I had it 3 days in a row like that, and it was perfect every time. I went back home and tried it with instant coffee again just to see what it would be like, and the answer is that it was definitely the instant coffee, it was the same as the first time I tried it. If you use this with an instant coffee, use it with a high quality one, mine was not, and it effected the flavor of the cream. As others have stated, it works best for mixing if you initially mix it in a small amount of liquid(preferably hot) before incorporating with your whole batch of anything. You don't need to make a paste, but about 4 parts water to 1 part cream should be good for mixing initially. I will definitely be ordering this again for use while traveling with my coffee, I am very impressed with it, and I plan on trying some of this companies other stuff as well, I am excited to do so, I hope they are as good as this cream. God Bless ~Amy

I purchased this product first and foremost for my coffee as a shelf stable alternative to refrigerated heavy cream and also for cooking and baking. As a former school trained chef I am particular in my tastes but in all honesty I was not expecting this to taste like fresh heavy cream. After reading the review about lumps, I took the advice of others and mixed about a teaspoon of hot coffee in the cup before adding the rest. It took a while to dissolve all the lumps with stirring...a slight annoyance but not enough to discontinue using the product. Even with all the stirring, a few small lumps were floating on the top when I added the rest of the coffee. A teaspoon of the powder gave me the right color for my coffee. The mouth feel was spot on for heavy cream and I spent the rest of the time finishing my cup trying to decide if I could tell the difference from the two. As others had commented, I did notice a grittiness at the very end of the cup, the last tablespoon or so. I decided to make my next cup with fresh heavy cream to see the difference. I added about a tablespoon of fresh heavy cream to my cup. Same color, same appearance. Mouth feel was the same but there was a definite difference in the taste, not sweeter but the dairy flavor I picked up with the fresh cream was most likely due to the milk sugars. That being said all in all I think this is a good product for those looking for a shelf stable alternative to heavy cream for their coffee. The flavor was close enough that I needed to make a cup with fresh cream to taste the difference. One star removed for the grittiness at the end and the lumps that take a lot of stirring to remove. I will purchase this product again.

I honestly don't know what I was expecting. I am on keto and have had a hard time going from powdered creamer to heavy whip as creamer with splenda. I like powder creamer because it doesnt liquify my coffee, so I wanted to try powder heavy cream and thats a hard freaking no. It is super clumpy. and I dont have time to worry about that. I honestly don't know if it tastes weird cause i didnt get past the clumps. and I actually have a frother too. so idk. i struggle apparently. but if you on keto, just stick with the heavy cream and the splenda, it gets better tastingafter a few weeks. your tastebuds get used to being unhappy. lol

This is an item great to have on hand when you’re cooking. It will thicken up your sauces.

First, I got this for the shelf stability and it will fulfill that since I wanted something that I didn't have to refrigerate to add to coffee at work. However, I noted that in the description from Amazon when ordering "Add a scoop of our delicious heavy cream powder for a rich, sweet cream flavor in sauces, soups, and coffee. Our shelf-stable, hormone-free Heavy Cream Powder has a 72% butterfat content, ..." AND SO if regular liquid heavy cream is 36% milkfat on average, then I thought LOGICALLY it would take half as much to make a cup of cream BUT that was not the case. If you mix it as directed, using 6 tbsp to make 1 cup of cream, it comes out to making a little more than a QUART of liquid cream from a pound of powder. This means it is costing $20 a quart, compared to $6 to $8 a quart for liquid cream and usage is the same for powdered AND liquid so I will run out of it in the same usage timeframe. Also, I never could get it (using 6 tablespoons of powder and 1 cup of hot water (had to use hot water to get it to mix well enough), refrigerated overnight, to become the consistency of heavy cream. It would create a, almost butter consistency top separate layer with water below it and when shook up was no different than what I could produce using powdered milk and was thin liquid, not creamy. For shelf stability, I am sure this will be fine, and might be better for cream type sauces or cooking but for coffee use, I think I can find lesser expensive alternatives that give same results.

It says on back THIS IS NOT A COFFEE CREAMER AND WILL NOT DISSOLVE IN LIQUID. I use it as it says too. Mix it in with dry ingredients. Or in gravy,soups ect.

One n done order! I purchase heavy cream regularly from the grocery store. I bought this to use in low carb cooking, flour mixes for baking but also as a back up should I run out of cream. I mixed up as stated to make a cup, 6 TBs, I even weighed it out on my scale. I mixed well and put in the refrigerator. What I ended up with is a thin runny liquid. It does not have the mouth feel of heavy cream, at best it’s similar to a 2% milk and that’s being generous. I compared the ingredients to some other brands and noticed this one has non fat milk in it. The others have only sweet cream solids. I suspect there lies the problem. I’m not sure how this will perform in baked goods but I know it doesn’t perform the same in espresso, or other recipes that require heavy cream. It won’t whip up either and the carb content is higher than regular heavy cream, double the carbs likely from the added milk. Not worth it. Sadly it can’t be returned since it’s a food item so I’m stuck with it.