Jordan Myrick
Gwynedd Stuart
The best canned whipped cream is both light and thick, rich and delicate. It’s sweet without being overpowering. It will highlight a dessert, but it will be even more pleasing to shoot it into your mouth straight from the can. We resisted the temptation to go full mouth squirt for our most recent whipped cream taste test (which you can watch below), but we’d never judge you for it.
What we were looking for in the best whipped cream in a can
Ideally, whipped cream from a can should taste like whipped cream you made with a hand mixer in a Pyrex bowl in your kitchen. It should be sweet and fatty—in fact, the fattiness is what tends to complement desserts. We didn’t find a fat free whipped cream to rank in our most recent taste test, but we did find the best zero sugar whipped cream and the best non dairy whipped cream, too (warning: you have to love coconut to vibe with it).
These are the best whipped cream options to have on hand for ice cream sundaes, Belgian waffles, and pie (or, yes, for squirting directly into your mouth).
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- Friendly Farms Coconut Non Dairy Whipped Topping
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Non dairy whipped topping is made with a variety of stand-ins for heavy cream: almond milk, oat milk, and coconut milk. This coconut-based whipped cream from Aldi was the best non dairy option we tried in our most recent taste test, but that doesn’t mean all coconut whipped topping is reliably good. Others were weirdly fruity tasting, but this one was creamy and nutty instead—it’s like coconut cream pie in a can. Yum. We’ll be adding this to our dedicated ranking of the best non dairy whipped topping. —Gwynedd Stuart
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- Reddi-wip Zero Sugar
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Reddi-wip is THE big name in canned whipped cream. The brand doesn’t make the best whipped cream overall, but it does make the best sugar free whipped cream. It’s sweetened with sucralose but it doesn’t taste like fake sugar—and that’s kind of like the best-case scenario when you’re consuming sugar free foods. It’s sugar free and not fat free, so it still has that backbone of fatty flavor that’s really going to improve a bowl of keto-friendly ice cream. —Gwynedd Stuart
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- Great Value Extra Creamy Dairy Whipped Topping
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When it comes to the best whipped cream, Great Value is right up there with the big brand name boys. It’s not fancy. It’s not expensive. And honestly, it isn’t the best extra creamy whipped cream we tried, but it’s really good all the same—especially for the price. —Jordan Myrick
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- Friendly Farms Chocolate Whipped Dairy Topping
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Is it possible the best whipped cream for hot chocolate is…chocolate flavored? This stuff is great. It tastes like chocolate cake frosting—the texture is light and fluffy, but the flavor is really rich with cocoa. It has a real chocolate flavor rather than the fakey, cloying chocolate flavor you might expect from something like this. My colleague Jordan isn’t a fan of whipped cream frosting, but even they fell for this stuff. —Gwynedd Stuart
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- Reddi-wip Original Whipped Cream
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I was skeptical of Reddi-wip because it’s the face of canned whipped cream. I wasn’t sure if it was popular simply by virtue of being around forever or if it was actually all it’s cracked up to be. Luckily, I discovered that it’s delicious and totally deserves its status at the grocery store. It tastes like the whipped frosting on an ice cream cake. It’s the lightest and airiest canned whipped cream we tried in our taste test. I get the hype, Reddi-wip, and I’m sorry. —Jordan Myrick
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- Kirkland Real Heavy Whipped Cream
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Several of the “extra creamy” whipped creams we tried in our most recent taste test were not extra creamy at all. This Kirkland whipped cream from Costco doesn’t even claim to be “extra creamy,” but it’s practically cake-frosting thick. It doesn’t quite have the same depth of flavor as the number one best whipped cream in our ranking—nothing does, really—but this is one of the only whips we tried that seems like it wouldn’t instantly dissolve into a mug of hot chocolate. It’s got heft. —Gwynedd Stuart
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- Clover Sweetened Whipped Light Cream
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There’s something sort of puzzling about this “whipped light cream,” namely that it isn’t “light” compared to other whipped creams on our list. It actually has more fat (1.5g versus 1g) and calories (20 versus 15) than whipped creams that don’t have “light” in their names. What makes it “light?” I’m not totally sure, but it really tastes great—fatty and dairy rich. You might not notice unless you’re trying whipped creams head to head, but it has so much more depth of flavor than options like Reddi-wip. —Gwynedd Stuart
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- Clover Sonoma Sweetened Whipped Topping
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Clover makes incredibly rich and luxurious dairy products, and their whipped cream is no different. It is the best whipped topping out there. It’s smooth, creamy, and fluffy. Its fresh taste and the cute cow on the label make me want to spray this onto a bowl of fresh, local strawberries and enjoy them on the porch (I don’t have a porch). If you’re a dairy lover and Clover has yet to make its way into your fridge, give this canned whipped cream a try and I guarantee you’ll be impressed. —Jordan Myrick
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- Great Value Original Dairy Whipped Topping
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This canned whipped cream from Walmart blew us all away. It has a noggy kind of flavor—kind of like rice pudding minus the sprinkle of cinnamon. It tastes like good, eggy vanilla ice cream or custard. It’s unreal! Clover was our previous number one, which we were conflicted about since it isn’t available nationwide, so we’re stoked that the best whipped cream we found in our most recent taste test is way more accessible. —Gwynedd Stuart
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Best Non Dairy Whipped Topping
Best Zero Sugar Whipped Cream
Best Bang for Your Buck
Best Flavored Whipped Cream
Best Classic
Best Extra Creamy
Best “Light” Whipped Cream
Best if You Can Find It
Best of the Best
Other canned whipped cream we tried
Reddi-wip Extra Creamy, Sprouts Oatmilk Whipped Topping, Sprouts Sweetened Light Whipped Cream, Reddi-wip Non-Dairy, Private Selection Extra Creamy Whipped Heavy Cream, Favorite Day Pumpkin Spice Whipped Dairy Topping, Favorite Day Original Whipped Dairy Topping, Favorite Day Maple Vanilla Whipped Dairy Topping, Land O’ Lakes All Natural Heavy Whipped Cream, Trader Joe’s, Alta Dena, Isigny Sainte-Mere
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