What to cook with heavy cream

271 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use heavy cream. 29 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, Indian and French recipes.

recipes use it: 271
are built around it: 29
median total time: 1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less: 36

Recipes built around heavy cream

With heavy cream, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with heavy cream

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with heavy cream, out of 271 recipes.

Butter50% of recipes
Vanilla extract31% of recipes
Eggs45% of recipes
Milk27% of recipes
Onion31% of recipes
Garam masala13% of recipes
Paneer7% of recipes
Garlic28% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 181 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1 cup. Half of them fall between ½ to 1¼ cups.

Where heavy cream shows up

Cuisines

American43
Indian32
French23
Italian17

Courses

Dessert114
Dinner76
Breakfast22

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.