I've recently learned to bake cakes. It's really fun -- pleasing to both the eyes and the stomach. Tho, it saddened me when I discovered that the "vegetable cream" for icing is largely composed of palm oil. I checked other known brands of whipping cream and, sadly, the ingredients seem to be similar. (Palm oil enterprise is connected to deforestation, biodiversity loss and human rights abuses. In the PH, palm plantations have increased at diff places in Mindanao, where it may be associated with forest loss in the past 10 years.) Do you have any recommendations of whipping cream or icing that are sustainably sourced AMAP? If you would recommend the regular all-purpose cream, please share how you make stable whipped cream out of it. I'd also like to share how I store the cakes using inverted containers. The covers serve as cake pans and/or turntables. These easily fit in the ref; just be extra careful when handling the bottom and when cutting with a knife. I suggest that you use bread knife. To release a snugly fit cover, move the container to the edge of the table and slightly "peel" the cover open.

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I've recently learned to bake cakes. It's really fun -- pleasing to both the eyes and the stomach. Tho, it saddened me when I discovered that the "vegetable cream" for icing is largely composed of palm oil. I checked other known brands of whipping cream and, sadly, the ingredients seem to be similar. (Palm oil enterprise is connected to deforestation, biodiversity loss and human rights abuses. In the PH, palm plantations have increased at diff places in Mindanao, where it may be associated with forest loss in the past 10 years.) Do you have any recommendations of whipping cream or icing that are sustainably sourced AMAP? If you would recommend the regular all-purpose cream, please share how you make stable whipped cream out of it. I'd also like to share how I store the cakes using inverted containers. The covers serve as cake pans and/or turntables. These easily fit in the ref; just be extra careful when handling the bottom and when cutting with a knife. I suggest that you use bread knife. To release a snugly fit cover, move the container to the edge of the table and slightly "peel" the cover open.