Recipes with heavy whipping cream

Old-fashioned homemade eggnog with separated eggs, powdered sugar, rum, and heavy cream, lightened by stiff-beaten egg whites and dusted with nutmeg. A rich, fluffy holiday punch bowl recipe.

Chicken Marsala with mushrooms and shallots in a creamy marsala wine sauce. The chicken is pounded thin and quickly seared before simmering in the rich pan sauce.

Boozy chocolate Bailey's Irish Cream cheesecake with a chiffon-light filling set with gelatin and folded with meringue and whipped cream. A make-ahead, no-bake dessert that slices like a dream.

Creamy asparagus chicken casserole baked with a rich cream sauce, Parmesan cheese, and a kick of hot pepper sauce. Comfort food at its best, ready for the oven in under an hour.

Warm up that rainy day with this creamy and delicious soup made from chicken broth, spinach and garlic.

A hearty Romanian cabbage soup layered with smoky bacon, green peppers, and fresh herbs, then finished with a velvety egg yolk and cream liaison. This ciorba is a full meal in a bowl.

Boccone Dolce is a stunning Italian meringue layer cake filled with melted chocolate, clouds of whipped cream, and fresh strawberries. Three crisp meringue discs stacked into a showstopping dessert.

Frozen layered parfait with honey-almond cream base and raspberry mousse top, served with warm raspberry sauce. The dinner-party showstopper from the Masterchefs collection.

No-bake peach pie with cream cheese, whipped cream, almond extract, and sliced peaches in a graham cracker crust. A cool, creamy summer dessert with just 6 ingredients and no oven.

Brown sugar fudge cooked to the soft-ball stage with molasses, heavy cream, and a touch of unsweetened chocolate. Old-fashioned candy-thermometer method for a creamy, never-grainy result that sets up firm and slices clean.

Habanero chicken jerktoufee blends Cajun etouffee with Caribbean jerk spices. Chicken breast in a creamy roux-thickened sauce with tasso, habanero, and jalapeno, served over cornbread.

Penne with tomato, cream and five cheeses, parboiled pasta tossed in a tomato-cream sauce loaded with pecorino, fontina, gorgonzola, ricotta and mozzarella, then baked hot until bubbling and browned. A restaurant classic.

A two-layer pie with spiced butternut squash custard on the bottom and a gooey pecan pie filling on top, sweetened with maple syrup and dark brown sugar. A Midwest Thanksgiving stunner.

Drunken crawfish pie tucks two pounds of crawfish tails into a buttery brandy-spiked cream sauce with the Cajun holy trinity, sealed inside a double crust and baked golden. A Louisiana classic that turns brunch or supper into an event.

Magic chocolate pie melts unsweetened chocolate into sweetened condensed milk over a double boiler, then sets into a dense fudge-like filling in a baked shell. Five ingredients, no eggs.

Layered crab gratin over linguine with mushrooms, white wine, clam juice, and tarragon in a light cream sauce, baked and broiled until golden. A refined seafood pasta bake.