Easy Strawberry Soup (Cinderella’s Favorite!)
There is a restaurant in Disney World located in the Grand Floridian Resort whose specialty is Strawberry Soup. This is the stuff of legends and the legend is so big that it has reached all the way to North Alabama ~grins~.
Now on our recent trip to Disney, we did not stay in the Grand Floridian, I wanna make that clear. It is a gorgeous hotel but I would’ve had to mortgage a kidney or sell one of the kids to be able to afford to stay there. We DID, however, eat at 1900 Park Fare (free, as a matter of fact, but I’ll talk about how we did that in an upcoming post).
The Best Strawberry Soup
When I told Mama we were going to eat at 1900 Park Fare she said “Oh! Are you gonna have the strawberry soup?”. I got the same question from two other people so I got to thinking that you might like to have this recipe in your neck of the woods as well.
Most people don’t realize that Disney gives out any recipe served in their restaurants if you ask for it. In fact, many of the standards are already pre-printed on cards to hand out whenever someone requests them. If you ask for a recipe that is not immediately handy, they take your email or mailing address and the chef will get it to you. So I got the recipe (it is also several places on the internet) and I tweaked the ingredients and recipe itself to make it a little less fussy.
Strawberry Soup is lightly sweet, rich, thick, and just makes your tongue wanna dance. It’s sort of like a Strawberry Smoothie, only better – and prettier. 🙂
And LOOK who endorses this recipe!
When I asked Cinderella if I could pose with her and the strawberry soup I said “I promise I won’t spill it on your beautiful dress” and she said “Well now, strawberry soup is my favorite, I wouldn’t mind one bit if you spilled it on me!”
Now that is seriously some kind of good!
Lets get to making it-
How To Make Strawberry Soup Step By Step Pictorial
The ingredients you’ll need: Frozen sliced sweetened strawberries (thawed), Heavy Whipping Cream, and Sour Cream.
Regular or Lite Sour Cream
You can get lite sour cream if you like. Some folks will say “Well why bother if you’ve got the fat from the whipping cream and sugar from the strawberries” but I think most of us will fall on they “Hey, every little bit helps” category here.
Tweaks From the Original
The original recipe was in ounces, which is something most of us aren’t used to, so I translated it into our usual cooking measurements. It also was a little too fussy for my taste (Like I’m really going to go buy plain yogurt just to use two ounces of it in a recipe?) so I made it a little lower maintenance for us, too. I think the best things in life are really simple, but we as humans tend to want to complicate matters. This is especially true of food.
I hope and pray my sense of taste never becomes so sophisticated that I can discern between a recipe that has eight ounces of sour cream versus a recipe that has six ounces of sour cream and two ounces of plain yogurt. The day that happens, I’ve gotten entirely above my raising.
Place your thawed strawberries in a blender. Add your sour cream.
Pour in your whipping cream.
Don’t blink because we’re almost done. I know this has been terribly taxing, right?
Blend until smooth and thick.
Now you’re done. Seriously.
Serve your guests and don’t tell them how easy it was!
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 cups frozen sliced strawberries in sugar thawed (it maybe 1/4 cup or so more in the container and that is okay too)
- 1 piece cup
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in blender. Blend until smooth and thick. Chill well before serving. Serve cold. Refrigerate any leftovers. Keeps for a few days in the refrigerator.
Nutrition
You may also like some of these strawberry recipes:
Fresh Strawberry Cake With Cream Cheese Icing
Strawberry Punch Bowl Cake AKA Strawberry Trifle
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That is a soup fit for a princess of any age!
Just imagine all the colors and designs that apple holder could come in! I bet Katy Rose could make some really pretty ones.
Hi, I’ve never heard of this, and just to be sure I’m clear, you eat this just as you would pudding?
This looks so yummy, I bet it would be great with some of your Double Chocolate Chip muffins (which I made the other day, and they were so good my toes curled). Tell Katy Rose her apple holder was a great ideal 🙂 It would be great for catching any of those extra apple juices that might try getting away.
What would be your suggestion for making this sugar-free?
I would suggest using fresh strawberries sweetened with Splenda.
Maybe have some animal crackers with it? Heh.. sounds interesting for sure.
Where have you been? I haven’t seen anything from you in weeks. I actually sent an e-mail to Christy asking about you, but she did not answer. Glad you’re back.
this sounds delicious
Hope you got the e-mail about betty
I just got it, thank you so much! I’ll update the sp family
YUM looks so good! While at Disney this past November we drove into the Grand Floridian many time on the way to a park and OMG that place is gorgeous.
You look so pretty posing with your strawberry soup and Cinderella;) We got to meet her at the Castle along with the other princesses at breakfast, Abby was so nervous to talk to them she kept asking me “what do I say” 🙂 I guess she thought she would say the wrong thing afterall they are princesses. but the best part of the breakfast had to be the kiss Wyatt received from Belle!! he was SOOO embarrassed
How sweet!! Beautiful Katy Rose. I love it.!
I had to comment on my own comment cause I had to share my funny story. The other day my step MIL and I are talking and she says “oh I saw the yummiest recipe the other day and was gonna send it to you for Abby but then I scrolled down a bit what did I see? well you had already seen this recipe cause your comment was the first comment on there :)” ha ha obviously great minds think alike and she and I like to read the same things! We had talked about your site before and I had shown her your cookbook I got for xmas. so we sat for the next bit going over which recipes had been tried and how yummy they were