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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Can anyone tell those of us who are not familiar with this item whether it is considered to be an appetizer or a dessert? Pretty please!
I think it mainly depends no your mood since it is your kitchen and you get to set the rules :). However, at Disney they don’t have it on the dessert bar. They have it up near the salads so I would lean more towards appetizer. Personally, I served it as a dessert and then we ate the rest as a little treat 🙂 Hope this helps!
Funny, I read this recipe yesterday when you posted it, then later in the evening was thumbing through a new cookbook for ideas. One dish included a recipe for simple crème fraiche which was 6 oz sour cream and 2 oz of plain yogurt. I think the bacteria in the yogurt help to preserve it as it ages. If you are using it right away, maybe there’s no advantage. I wonder if I could substitute some of my homemade kefir thickened since that also has microbes…
Thanks for the update. I actually run my own Disney Tips blog (and live in North Alabama) and would love to share this recipe. Is it ok for me to link from my page to yours? You can check out my site at http://www.tipsfromthedisneydiva.blogspot.com
I get between 400-600 hits a day, so it would draw some more good attention to your blog.
Of course you can share the recipe and link! I would feel so honored!!
I didn’t have the strawberry soup at DW, but I had something like it on a cruise and loved it. They also had a melon soup (canteloupe, honeydew, etc.) and it was great too.
Please tell Katy Rose that I love her apple holder – I have problems with my left hand holding things and the apple holder will help me hold my apple.
Our daughter will be visiting at Easter and I’ll make this soup for us. I won’t bother telling her the ingredients because she eats WW-style.
Katy Rose, you are the spittin’ image of your Mama; You’re both pretty gals. And I love all your recipes, Christy. When I print one out, I keep it in a special file folder named “Southern Plate” so I can find it very easily/
Strawberries are next on my list of favorites things! Right after chocolate!! Gotta try this recipe…and that apple holder? Pure genius, Katy Rose…pure genius!!!
Love that apple holder holder Miss Katy Rose!!
Can’t wait to try the strawberry soup 🙂 We adore Disney. The one thing I got the recipe for when there was the Rice Cream served in Norway (Epcot). I make it all the time! And it has strawberries on top of it! (Recipe is on the web)