Bakery Style Cream?

[Sara Johns]

I'm new to the forum and wondered if any of my fellow bakers could help me. I'm looking for a recipe for the cream you would find as a filling in a donut at a bakery. It's not the pastry cream that's like pudding, it's much like a whip cream that taste like buttercream but lighter. If that made sense and anyone has answers it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ChesterV]

Well, thats pretty much what it is, whipped buttercream.

If you whip buttercream enough, you can get it fluffy like whipped cream.
That's pretty much all it is.

Pretty much only 4 kinds of filling are used in standard donuts:

Custard cream (vanilla pudding)
Jelly
Whipped buttercream
Chocolate buttercream

 

[Sara Johns]

Thank you. I have a buttercream recipe I've been using for years and I whip it for about five minutes but it's never quite tasted like the cream in donuts. I'll have to do some experimenting. Thanks again. -S

 

[ChesterV]

You might also try whipping the buttercream with a bit of custard. It might make it smoother.
But depending on what kind of custard it is, it might make it gummy.

Maybe whipping them separately and then mixing them together by hand might work, if you want to experiment that way.