Whats the difference between Mascarpone cheese and thick double cream?

Question

Can you please tell.....its the same to me! lol......David

Answer 1

Well Cheese is Cheese. Thick Double Cream is called Heavy Cream in the U.S.

Mascarpone is a triple-cream cheese, made from a generally low-fat (25%) content fresh cream. It's made from the milk of cows that have been fed special grasses filled with fresh herbs and flowers – a special diet that creates a unique taste often described as "fresh and delicious."

The word CREAM as it relates to cheese is used to describe the texture of the cheese. It is smooth, and not chunky.

The cheese is a solid, the double cream is a liquid.

Answer 2

Other people have answered the question but you might like to know that you can serve mascarpone instead of cream where the cream is being used as an accompaniment as mascarpone is lower in fat content. It is also delicious if you add a little complimetary spice or alcohol to it, for example apple pie served with a cinnamon spiced mascarpone cream or poaches peaches served with a marsala flavoured mascapone - yummmy.

Mascarpone can also be substituted for cream where the cream is being used as a sauce, say in pasta or a cream based sauce for a steak - again the benefit being lower fat content but still the creamy flavour and thicker consistency.

Answer 3

mascarpone cheess is like a cream cheese i't not cream or double it cheese and is mainly used for cheescake , for instance it is used to make Tira Mi Su and you cant substute it for cream, so remember if a recipi asks for macarpone cheese that's what you should use.

Answer 4

Mascapone is cream cheese if you want a substitute for it then any good quality cream cheese will be OK..e.g. Philidelphia. thick dounble cream however is something completely different.

Answer 5

I love em both

Answer 6

the taste i would have thought