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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Wow, that looks delicious! We ate at 1900 Park Flare and they didn’t have this last year. I will have to make sure we go there again for dinner next year. Or I can make my own how I guess, thanks for sharing.
I hope you get a chance to make your own Tawny, it is so good!!
I worked at the Grand Floridian Cafe for 5 years and had that soup MANY times… it is soooo yummy!!!
Love the recipes!! So simple and quick! I have a question about the strawberries. I’m not familiar with the frozen sweetened strawberries. How would I sweeten plain strawberries? …I know, I’m a beginner. =)
All I do to sweeten strawberries is just sprinkle some sugar sliced strawberries and let them sit in the fridge overnight. HMM yummy on waffles, pancakes, ice cream….. anything! 🙂 Hope that helps!!
Getting ready to make this for the kiddos tonight!
This is perfect for my Princess’ 2 birthday lunch…we just made it and are letting it chill a little bit while the boys have gone to get the cake and balloons. When we both tasted it we said “mmmmmmm” so excited that I saw this post right before her birthday! Thank you!
Awww, Happy Birthday little Princess!!! I hope she had a fabulous day and ya’ll made lots of memories!
I’ve often become befuddled in dealing with an apple in the raw! Thanks for the great idea Karo! You’re awesome!
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