Strawberry Mousse is delicious and easy with just 3 ingredients.
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Chilling time1 hourhr
Total Time1 hourhr5 minutesmins
Servings: 4servings
Calories: 368kcal
Author: Staff Writer
Ingredients
Ingredients
2cupsstrawberries
½cupgranulated sugar
1 ¼cupsheavy whipping cream
4strawberries, to garnish
Instructions
Instructions
Cut the green part from the top of the strawberries then roughly chop them and put them into a food processor or blender.
Add the sugar and process for a few seconds until the strawberries are puréed. Reserve 4 tablespoons of the puree in a separate bowl. Set the strawberry purée aside for now.
Pour the heavy whipping cream into a bowl and whip it until it reaches very stiff peaks.
Add the strawberry purée (not the purée you reserved) and gently fold it into the whipped cream.
Add a tablespoon of the reserved strawberry purée to each serving jar. Top with the strawberry whipped cream.
Put the serving jars into the fridge for an hour to set.
To serve, add a whole strawberry on top of each mousse and enjoy!
Notes
As this dessert doesn’t contain any gelatin, it will not set exactly like a store-bought mousse; however, it is still very close to being mousse-like in texture.
It’s important to use a cream with a high fat content otherwise the mousse will be too runny.
The heavy whipping cream should be whisked to very stiff peaks as when you add the puréed strawberries it will lose some of its stiffness.
It’s tempting to add more than a tablespoon of strawberry purée to each serving dish. When we tested this recipe we found that when the whipped cream was added it sank into the purée when there was more purée in the jar. We then lost the definition of the purée to the mousse so we found a tablespoon to be just the right amount!
We used 13-ounce glass jars to display this lovely dessert. The quantities in the recipe above are the exact amount needed to fill four 13 ounce jars/serving dishes.
Storage: Any leftover Strawberry Mousse should be kept refrigerated for 24 hours. You can make this dessert one day ahead.