Just throwing this out there. I've used whipped cream before, but was pondering on using Cool Whip.

Any pros and cons between one to the other?

Any insight is appreciated.

I love Cool Whip. It doesn't lose it's consistency easily or start to smell like whipped cream does, plus you can easily doctor it with all kinds of other things to make fun WAM substances. I don't care for it as a foodstuff but as a mess ingredient it's heavenly.

Cool Whip doesn't leave the terrible residual smell that whipped cream leaves, and also seems to hold up better before starting to melt.

With that said, I've recently been moving from Cool Whip to a mix of marshmallow fluff and frosting -- it's a bit stickier and takes more work to mix together, but the texture is awesome and it makes way better splats.

Whipped cream melts easier, and leaves a greasy sticky residue on the victim. And the smell lingers.

Which is why I'm 100% team whipped cream

I would pick cool whip because it does not melt easily like real whipped cream does and has a nice fluffy consistency.

so i am a fan of how heavy cream can turn out, it can turn out horribly too, but yea the smell is hard to get rid of, and cool whip doesn't smell as bad. my wife asked me to stop using heavy cream and seems to have more fun with the cool whip.

we have albums and all the old stuff when shes younger is heavy cream and new stuff cool whip. but i mix in stuff to both styles to thicken it and add texture!

Cool whip. No contest. For all the reasons she described.

Agreed.

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Mr Bubble Foam in a can makes great pies. Mild soap, makes great pies, smells great, feels great, colors and east clean up . Whip cream smells as does cool whip..It piles up well and doesn't fall off, keeps the crust stuck to your face. And tastes great if forced to swallow

I'll take cool whip over whipped cream for many reasons folks have already said.

Along the same lines, are there those who mix the cool whip with frosting? How many oz of each, generally, do you mix between the two?

Mixing instant pudding powder into Cool Whip makes it stick much better for that "just pied" look. I just posted a couple pics where I tried it on myself.

Cool Whip is fine, but if you can get the Walmart brand ("Great Value") or Rich's Whipped Topping, these are superior to Cool Whip in my opinion because they basically do not melt at all since their main ingredient is shortening (Crisco). They are a bit more difficult to clean off because of that, but the trade off is worth it in my opinion.

Cool whip all the way