diff --git a/internal/cmd/certificate/create.go b/internal/cmd/certificate/create.go
index 0a63ac1e..10da3cee 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/certificate/create.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/certificate/create.go
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/hetznercloud/cli/internal/hcapi2"
 	"github.com/hetznercloud/cli/internal/state"
 	"github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-go/v2/hcloud"
-	"github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-go/v2/hcloud/schema"
 )
 
 var CreateCmd = base.CreateCmd{
@@ -57,11 +56,7 @@ var CreateCmd = base.CreateCmd{
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, err
 		}
-		return cert, struct {
-			Certificate schema.Certificate `json:"certificate"`
-		}{
-			Certificate: hcloud.SchemaFromCertificate(cert),
-		}, nil
+		return cert, util.WrapSchema("certificate", hcloud.SchemaFromCertificate(cert)), nil
 	},
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/cmd/util/util.go b/internal/cmd/util/util.go
index 8662b5dd..1407feb2 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/util/util.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/util/util.go
@@ -165,6 +165,13 @@ func DescribeYAML(object interface{}) error {
 	return enc.Encode(object)
 }
 
+// WrapSchema return a map wrapping the schema (value) in a dict (`{ key: value }`).
+//
+// Used to reduce boilerplate.
+func WrapSchema(key string, value any) map[string]any {
+	return map[string]any{key: value}
+}
+
 // ValidateRequiredFlags ensures that flags has values for all flags with
 // the passed names.
 //