Breakfast buffet: National whipped cream day - Eatocracy While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Whip it good - January 5 is National Whipped Cream Day! Make whatever you eat today even better by dolloping a small tower of whipped cream right on top. It may be associated with dessert, but there's nothing wrong with putting whipped cream on top of your stack of pancakes or waffles. It doesn't get much easier than making this dessert accessory. Simply beat cream with a mixer, whisk or use a whipped cream maker with a special cartridge. If you add some vanilla extract, you can even call it Chantilly cream and feel mighty fancy. When you whip air into the cream, it doubles the volume of the original state, resulting in a fine, fluffy pillow of sweetness to put on top of your ice cream sundae, pie, cake, hot fruit crisp, coffee or hot chocolate. Just be careful - if you whip the cream for too long, you'll end up with a bowl of butter and buttermilk. Talk about going sour!