Recipe For Strawberry Fool

About This Recipe

• This recipe for strawberry fool is simple to put together and perfect if you are looking for a quick no-cook and no-bake dessert.
• It’s a pretty-looking dessert that would look great on any dessert table, especially on occasions like Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or just when you want to impress.
• It is a budget-friendly dessert that you can make up to three days in advance.
• It can be made as one large dessert for family sharing or served in glass bowls for fancy dinners.

• Fresh strawberries
• White granulated sugar
• Whipping cream or heavy cream

Kitchen Utensils Needed

• Measuring cups
• Kitchen scales
• Small sharp knife
• Cutting board
• Food processor or blender (can make without these see recipe notes below)
• Electric hand mixer or balloon whisk
• Medium to large size mixing bowl
• Spatula or wooden spoon
• 4 – 6 small ramekins or glasses that are at least ¾ to 1 cup capacity.

Make The Puree

Step 1 – Wash and pat dry the strawberries with a clean tea towel. Remove the stems and leaves from the strawberries and slice the strawberries in half.

Step 2 & 3 – Place the strawberries and sugar into a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.

Step 4 – Remove ¾ cup of strawberry puree and put it aside. You will use the remaining puree in step 6.

Make The Strawberry Cream Mixture

Step 5 – Place the cream into a large mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer or balloon whisk to beat the cream until stiff peaks form.

Step 6 – Add the remaining strawberry puree (not the reserved 3/4 cup of puree) to the whipped cream. Use a spatula to gently combined mix the two together.

Assembling The Strawberry Fool

Step 7 – Use a spoon and evenly divide the reserved strawberry puree between 6 ramekins or glasses.

Step 8 – Next, evenly divide the strawberry cream between the serving glasses.

Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.

Serve chilled. Garnish with crème Chantilly and fresh strawberry halves if desired.

Recipe Tips

Don’t have a blender? 

If you don’t have a blender, you can use a sharp knife to chop strawberries into small pieces instead of the puree.

And use icing sugar (powdered sugar) and whip that in with the cream rather than the strawberries.

Recipe Variation

Other ways to make strawberry fool

There are several different ways to make a strawberry fool dessert. You can layer or fold in pureed or diced fruit that is either fresh or stewed in with the cream.

Option 1 – Make a compote – by cooking strawberries with sugar and lemon juice and allow it to cool completely before adding to the cream.

Option 2 – You could macerate (soften the strawberries without cooking).   

By mixing them with sugar and 2 – 3 tablespoons of fresh orange juice or lemon juice or Grand Marnier (for the adults).

Cover and allow to stand for about 30 minutes or longer for the juices to release. Then layer or mix in with the cream.

Option 3 – Puree the strawberries with sugar, then fold them in with whipped cream. (This is the method used for this recipe for strawberry fool).

Strawberry fool with custard

Make it the traditional British way with a thick custard and fruits like fresh strawberry puree, stewed gooseberry puree, or stewed rhubarb puree.

Home Many Serves Does This Make?

How many serves you get from the recipe will depend on the size of the glasses you use. For your reference, this recipe for strawberry fool makes just over 4 ½ cups.

On this occasion, I used four glasses, each with a one-cup capacity, filled right to the top. There was some extra leftover to fill another half a glass.

The one full cup serving size is quite generous and maybe too much if serving after a heavy meal.

The next time I will be dividing the mixture into six, which I think is a better serving size.

You can use smaller serving glasses like half a cup or three quarter cup sizes and get more serves from it.

If making more servings, I suggest reserving a little more strawberry puree for the bottom of the glasses before mixing the puree with the cream.