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heavy cream

American  

noun

  1. thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.


Example Sentences

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Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Let’s say you find chicken thighs, carrots, half a box of penne, an almost-empty jar of harissa, some butter and heavy cream.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025

What’s next, Doncic was a fat, lazy, beer-drinking, hookah smoker feasting on a 77-ounce New York strip steak with a side of the Slovenian specialty of sliced potatoes layered with cheese and heavy cream?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

What are some of your favorite uses for heavy cream in general?

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin